| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Field-mouse | | By Hilda Conkling |
| | From “Song Nets”
LITTLE brown field-mouse | |
| Hiding when the plough goes by, | |
| Timid creature that you are, | |
| Wild thing, | |
| Were you once in the forest?— | 5 |
| Did you move to the fields? | |
| In your brown cloak | |
| You gather grain | |
| For your secret meals; | |
| You will build a house of earth | 10 |
| The way you remember. | |
| From a baby up to your full-grown feeling | |
| You have run about the field, | |
| As other field-mice will run about | |
| When another century has come | 15 |
| Like a cloud. | | | | |
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