Agnes Lee. Shakespeare. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Shakespeare

By Agnes Lee


BECAUSE, the singer of an age, he sang
The passions of the ages,
It was humanity itself that sprang
To life upon his pages.

He told no single being’s tale—there beat	5
All beings on his pen;
And when he made a man to walk the street
Forth walked a million men.