| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | To a Child | | By Marjorie Allen Seiffert |
| | | BEAUTY, the dream that I have dreamed so much | |
| Comes true in your quick smile, | |
| And on your cheek I see her touch | |
| And sometimes in your eyes awhile | |
| Immortal Beauty’s fleeting image lies. | 5 |
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| Dear child, in whose veins beat | |
| The marching centuries of lovers’ feet, | |
| All those brave, ardent ghosts in you arise— | |
| The souls who, loving Beauty, gave you birth | |
| With a chain of passion binding Beauty to earth, | 10 |
| A captured dream—these souls breathe with your breath, | |
| Living again in Beauty that knows no death. | | | | |
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