Lyman Bryson. To a Certain Fair Lady. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

To a Certain Fair Lady

By Lyman Bryson


YOUR heart is like a poplar tree,
Full of sunlit greenery,
A thin lace pattern on the sky,
That trembles when the winds go by.

And every zephyr, every day,	5
That comes adventuring that way,
Feels it as tremulously waken,
As if it never had been shaken.