| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Chicago | | By Mark Turbyfill |
| | From “Journeys and Discoveries”
O CITY of beauty, | |
| They have spoken without understanding; | |
| They have called you evil! | |
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| O city of beauty, | |
| Maybe it is only my heart you have shaken | 5 |
| With your sadness of rose evenings, | |
| And the shadows falling | |
| In the misty evening | |
| Under the bridges. | |
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| Your avenues are velvet and symmetrical, | 10 |
| As speech slow-moving. | |
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| O city of beauty, | |
| I come not with vain enumeration! | |
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| For in the untrod night | |
| I have looked upon your rapt | 15 |
| Presence. | |
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| There was a whiteness | |
| as of wings stirring. | | | | |
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