Mary Carolyn Davies. The Death Watch. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

The Death Watch

By Mary Carolyn Davies


A TREE falls in the blast,
The other trees are sighing;
Fast burn the candles—fast.
She is long dying.

A flower fades in the sun,	5
The other flowers are weeping;
See! Dawn’s at last begun.
Dead—or but sleeping?

A star falls, tired from flight,
The other stars are flying;	10
It is o’erpast, the night—
She is long dying.