Helen Birch-Bartlett. Remembrance. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Remembrance

By Helen Birch-Bartlett


From “A Line-a-day for Certain Lovers” I NEVER forgot you,
And I loved your silences.
I believed in you, and yet I could not believe.

I was both constant and inconstant.
You were faithless—yet immeasurably true.	5

A time came
When your memory swung like a bright pendulum
Backwards and forwards in my brain,
Channeling a groove.

Even had I loved you,	10
I would have chosen the same way.