| Harriet Monroe, ed. (18601936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 191222. | | | | Nocturne | | By G. Tucker Bispham |
| | | WHICH is the lovelier, between clear spaces of the lake and the night-sky, | |
| The mountain edges against heaven, or shadow of the mountains in the water? | |
| Which light more lovely; keen stars, burning big in the purple darkness, | |
| Or star-shimmer in the depthsthin lines like wavering lanterns? | | | | |
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