| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Standards | | By Harold Cook |
| | | ALL things that are beautiful | |
| Fragile, mute and sensual, | |
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| Must be broken ere they be | |
| Clad in immortality. | |
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| Slanting sunlight on the grass | 5 |
| Vanishes while clouds pass. | |
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| Like bright mirrors, lakes at rest | |
| Shatter on a swan’s breast. | |
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| Quiet water and the sun | |
| Only then are known to one, | 10 |
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| Only then, when lost, they find | |
| Their actuality in mind. | |
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| So, like sunlight, love must go | |
| That love’s perfection we may know. | |
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| One must die, and then the other | 15 |
| Of the two, the loved and lover. | |
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| Freed of separate bodies, they | |
| Are born as one in their new day. | |
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| Symbol then of love they rise | |
| Starry, lovely, to our eyes. | 20 | | | |
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