| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Three Voices | | By Frances Shaw |
| | The Tree:
A WIND of pain and longing | |
| Strips my boughs of their spring-time. | |
| I bow, and rock, and sweep the ground; | |
| Then, in the silence, hold me listening. | |
| Is this the after-calm in life, | 5 |
| Or is it death? | |
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The Spirit Within:
I loved a warrior once, | |
| And gave my heart in the spring-time. | |
| Lonely I sought the whole world o’er | |
| For one glance more. Unseeing, he passed by, | 10 |
| And then I laid me down within this tree | |
| And slept. | |
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The Wind:
Bow, bow your branches, O tree, | |
| And sigh exceedingly that the Spirit within | |
| May have memories of me. | 15 |
| For I am he who passed her by | |
| In the spring-time. | | | | |
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