Richard Butler Glaenzer. Bermuda. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Bermuda

By Richard Butler Glaenzer


ONCE,
Shoulders bare to the sun,
You carved cameos upon the sea—
Crisp white on milky blue,
Like Wedgwood.	5

Now
You lie listless,
In a robe of green velvet
Gorgeously flowered—
Fee of the fickle winds.	10

So,
In a monotony of loveliness,
You dream of the past—
An artist
Who conceived a masterpiece,	15
Repeated and repeated it;
And has nothing more to give.