| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds | | By Wallace Stevens |
| | From “Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile”
GLOOMY grammarians in golden gowns, | |
| Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous, | |
| Eliciting the still sustaining pomps | |
| Of speech which are like music so profound | |
| They seem an exaltation without sound. | 5 |
| Funest philosophers and ponderers, | |
| Their evocations are the speech of clouds. | |
| So speech of your processionals returns | |
| In the casual evocations of your tread | |
| Across the stale, mysterious seasons. These | 10 |
| Are the music of meet resignation; these | |
| The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you | |
| To magnify, if in that drifting waste | |
| You are to be accompanied by more | |
| Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon. | 15 | | | |
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