Yvor Winters. A Requiem for the Memory of Bees. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

A Requiem for the Memory of Bees

By Yvor Winters


Lake Michigan A BROWN flowering tree
On twilight
Was but a farther spinning of
the sprinkled blackbirds.

A woman walking,	5
The evening dying.
Her dress among low blossoms.

Among low blossoms
Lake water humming.