Alice Corbin. Color Note. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Color Note

By Alice Corbin


THE YELLOW street lamp by the lake
Leaps out against the turquoise sky,
And there’s a patch of amethyst
Where the old snow-drifts lie;
The russet leaves of maple and oak	5
Catch in the corner of the eye—
And all because that yellow flame
Sets up its piercing little cry!