| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Tenants | | By Wilfrid Wilson Gibson |
| | | SUDDENLY, out of dark and leafy ways, | |
| We came upon the little house asleep | |
| In cold blind stillness, shadowless and deep, | |
| In the white magic of the full moon-blaze: | |
| Strangers without the gate, we stood agaze, | 5 |
| Fearful to break that quiet, and to creep | |
| Into the home that had been ours to keep | |
| Through a long year of happy nights and days. | |
| |
| So unfamiliar in the white moon-gleam, | |
| So old and ghostly like a house of dream, | 10 |
| It stood, that over us there stole the dread | |
| That even as we watched it, side by side, | |
| The ghosts of lovers, who had lived and died | |
| Within its walls, were sleeping in our bed. | | | | |
|
|
