| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | At Versailles | | By Elizabeth Coatsworth |
| | From “Cockle Shells”
I HAVE watched the hours pass along the walks of Versailles | |
| Among the drifting autumn leaves: | |
| Madame Four-O’Clock a tumble of silken skirts and smiles, | |
| On a donkey her lover lured forward with brown southern pears. | |
| Madame Five-O’Clock, pouting among the petunias; | 5 |
| Flower-face, flower-hands, flower-breasts barely sheathed in her bodice. | |
| Madame Six-O’Clock languishing by a balustrade, | |
| Her thin yellow hand on the head of a black page. | |
| And Madame Seven, a white shadow among the tree-trunks, | |
| As still and as arch as the statues upon their pedestals. | 10 | | | |
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