| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Love Tower | | By Elizabeth J. Coatsworth |
| | From “Vermilion Seals”
PRINCE SUNG built Tsheng-leng tower | |
| From which he might espy | |
| Dame Sik of the smoke-like hair | |
| And willow waist, go by. | |
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| When the moon looked full at the sun | 5 |
| In the month that the asters flower, | |
| Prince Sung bade them bring Dame Sik | |
| Into his gay tiled tower. | |
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| “Give thy handmaid leave to bathe | |
| And change her unworthy dress; | 10 |
| She will serve thee with napkin and comb, | |
| As befits thy worshipfulness.” | |
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| She bathed and changed her robes, | |
| In a warm slow autumn hour. | |
| She smiled in the face of Prince Sung, | 15 |
| And leapt from the top of the tower. | | | | |
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