| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | An Old Woman with Flowers | | By Agnes Lee |
| | From “Pictures of Women”
I LIKE to see the eager-faced old woman | |
| Walking at sunset down the city street. | |
| Always she holds against her heart with fervor | |
| Her sprays of meadow-sweet. | |
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| She passes daily, and I never see her | 5 |
| Without the flowers she gathers to her so. | |
| I do not know how destiny softens, hardens | |
| The ways her feet must go, | |
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| Nor what her eyes forever are beholding | |
| Beyond the sordid walls and grimy towers, | 10 |
| Nor what against her agèd heart she presses, | |
| Pressing the meadow flowers. | | | | |
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