Alison Buchanan. The Unloved. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

The Unloved

By Alison Buchanan


STEPHEN, son of me,
You will never be born, my dear.
Light of day you will never see,
And the earth-sounds never hear.

But after I have died,	5
When I come to the courts of the sun—
Though husband-love I have never had,
And lovers never a one—

You will stand with a ripple of joy
On the lips that have never smiled,	10
And I shall clasp my son at last—
My child, my child!