| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Week-end | | By Aline Kilmer |
| | From “Novelette”
“I AM glad I have come.” | |
| Let me stay, let me stay— | |
| I would not go home. | |
| Let me rest in your kindness, | |
| Your blessed blindness, | 5 |
| For a night and a day. | |
| Your sweet incurious eyes | |
| Would widen in sharp surprise | |
| If you knew how under my breath | |
| I pray, “Let me sleep to death— | 10 |
| O God, let me never go home!” | |
| But I speak through the fragrant gloom | |
| Of your hushed and decorous room: | |
| “Yes, I am glad I have come.” | | | | |
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