| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Proud New York | | By John Reed |
| | (Fragment from a long poem—America: 1918)
BY proud New York and its man-piled Matterhorns, | |
| The hard blue sky overhead and the west wind blowing, | |
| Steam-plumes waving from sun-glittering pinnacles, | |
| And deep streets shaking to the million-river— | |
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| Manhattan, zoned with ships, the cruel | 5 |
| Youngest of all the world’s great towns, | |
| Thy bodice bright with many a jewel, | |
| Imperially crowned with crowns … | |
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| Who that has known thee but shall burn | |
| In exile till he come again | 10 |
| To do thy bitter will, O stern | |
| Moon of the tides of men! | | | | |
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