Grace Hazard Conkling. Cuernavaca. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Cuernavaca

By Grace Hazard Conkling


From “Songs for Places” Old Mexico YOU would not keep me near you,
You could not hold me far,
And now it does not matter
Where you are.

My heart has long forgotten	5
The ardent words you said,
But not the great stars blazing
Overhead.