| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Song | | By Alice Corbin |
| | From “Songs from a Book of Airs”
I KNOW you beautiful and fair | |
| Beyond delight; | |
| I know our bodies bare | |
| In love unite, | |
| Yet weep for passion’s flight. | 5 |
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| I weep because the rose | |
| Must fade away; | |
| I weep because of words | |
| That lead astray; | |
| I weep that passion never tells | 10 |
| What it longs to say. | |
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| Though your breast lie on my breast, | |
| Still in vain the lover’s quest; | |
| Like the dryads in the woods | |
| Powerless to tell their moods— | 15 |
| In a world of forest spells | |
| Never half the lover tells. | | | | |
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