| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Sheila Eileen | | By Antoinette De Coursey Patterson |
| | | SHE wore a kirtle of bright cramoisie, | |
| A golden band her slender waist confined. | |
| The wise ones said that half a sprite was she— | |
| So light her foot—and lighter still her mind! | |
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| And thus it happened, on the eve of May, | 5 |
| In spite of many a threat and warning word, | |
| She with the fairies nimbly danced away— | |
| And never any news of her was heard. | |
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| But when the summer rested on the glen, | |
| And birds sang, and the roses blossomed free, | 10 |
| One said he heard a silver laugh again, | |
| And glimpsed a kirtle, gold and cramoisie! | | | | |
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