Louise Jones. When Love Is Gone. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

When Love Is Gone

By Louise Jones


I AM as a field of grass
Over which the hot winds pass—
I am bowed.

As an organ left alone—
Organist and songs long gone—	5
I am dumb.

I am as a goblet dried,
Wine-stained crystal rim and side:
I am drained.

As the ashes dead and gray	10
When the fire has burned away,
I am cold.