Leonora Speyer. Song Overheard. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Song Overheard

By Leonora Speyer


From “Reflections” I WROTE your name within my heart
Most carefully—
I never could remember names or faces;
And then, one day,
I lost my heart along the shining places.	5

I must have let it fall,
Plucking a flower I did not want
And listening to a bird I did not see:
Now would I call—
And you would answer me.	10

Do hearts have wings?
I am so careless about losing things.