Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Chinoiseries

By Amy Lowell

Reflections

WHEN I looked into your eyes,

I saw a garden

With peonies, and tinkling pagodas,

And round-arched bridges

Over still lakes.

A woman sat beside the water

In a rain-blue, silken garment.

She reached through the water

To pluck the crimson peonies

Beneath the surface,

But as she grasped the stems,

They jarred and broke into white-green ripples,

And as she drew out her hand,

The water-drops dripping from it

Stained her rain-blue dress like tears.