Margaret Widdemer. I Did Not Know. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

I Did Not Know

By Margaret Widdemer


I DID not know that I should miss you,
So silver-soft your loving came—
There were no trumpets down the dawning,
There were no leaping tides of flame:

Only a peace like still rain falling	5
On a tired land with drought foredone,
Only a warmth like light soft lying
On a shut place that had not sun.

I did not know that I should miss you …
I only miss you, day and night,	10
Stilly, as earth would miss the rainfall;
Always, as earth would miss the light.