Willard Wattles. I Who Have Known Your Beauty. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

I Who Have Known Your Beauty

By Willard Wattles


I WHO have known your beauty
And bent beneath your spell,
Harry the hills of booty
Unbroken as Ishmael.

The white feet of your going	5
Turn and turn again
In a little round of the knowing
Bruised heart of pain.

But the cloud of your hair falling,
And the glory of your white hands,	10
Are mine past the bane’s recalling
In the inviolable lands.