| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician | | By Wallace Stevens |
| | From “Pecksniffiana”
IT comes about that the drifting of these curtains | |
| Is full of long motions; as the ponderous | |
| Deflations of distance; or as clouds | |
| Inseparable from their afternoons; | |
| Or the changing of light, the dropping | 5 |
| Of the silence, wide sleep and solitude | |
| Of night, in which all motion | |
| Is beyond us, as the firmament, | |
| Up-rising and down-falling, bares | |
| The last largeness, bold to see. | 10 | | | |
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