Marsden Hartley. Girl with the Camelia Smile. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Girl with the Camelia Smile

By Marsden Hartley


From “Sunlight Persuasions” EYES— Little vanity mirrors
From Damascus.
Her hair— Is a packet of love-letters
Burned to a crisp—on the Sunday
Morning—of a sad young man.	5
Gowned one way—a maple leaf
Bitten with frost-lips—
Whisked from the last boughs Of October.
The last wild leaf fierce with autumnal ecstasies.

He was one wind who danced with her—	10
The sad young Sunday-morning man.
He had seen her—gathering— Shell-flowers

On a brown sea’s edge—
Before the moon had withered.