H Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe

81 şiir · 1860 — 1936 · Chicago, Illinois

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Harriet Monroe was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts. Monroe is best known as the founder and long time editor of Poetry Magazine. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the Visitation Academy of Georgetown, D.C., in 1879, and afterward devoted herself to literary work. Monroe was the first editor at Poetry Magazine when she founded it in 1912. From her position as editor, she played a role in the development of modern poetry, both as an early publisher and as a supporter of poets such as Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams , Carl Sandburg and others. Additionally, Monroe was a long time correspondent of the poets she supported, and her letters provide a wealth of information on the thoughts and motives of modernist poets. She was also a member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County, Illinois. Monroe was a member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County, Illinois, and is mentioned in Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City. She was the sister-in-law of the Chicago architect John Wellborn Root. She died in Arequipa, Peru.)

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Look on the dead. Stately and pure he lies Under the white sheet's marble folds. For him The solemn bier, the scented chamber dim, The sacred hush, the bowed heads of the wise,…

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GOOD-BY: nay, do not grieve that it is over— The perfect hour; That the winged joy, sweet honey-loving rover, Flits from the flower.…

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The forest was a shrine for her, A temple richly dressed; And worshippers the tall trees were, Each to his prayer addressed.…

So light and soft the days fall— Like petals one by one Down from yon tree whose flowers all Must vanish in the sun.…

She grew, like other girls and flowers, Sheltered and tended daintily; And told her dolls, through sunny hours, A prince would come her love to be.…

Oh gay and shining June time! Oh meadow brave and bright, Abloom with little children, All tossing in the light!…

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The little world span round and round, Singing along her sunny ways, And all the glory she unwound She gave to him for joy and praise.…

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The Fisk Street turbine power station in Chicago The invisible wheels go softly round and round— Light is the tread of brazen-footed Power.…

Would you not be in Tryon Now that the spring is here, When mocking-birds are praising The fresh, the blossomy year?…

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He loved her and he was untrue— Untrue he was, let loved her still; For out of nether darkness drew The winds that lashed his wandering will.…

Wind of the desert, softly blow Across the cañon shining wide. Lightly among the temples go That rise in towers of pride.…

The blue sea bends to the ship Like a dancer with skirts of lace— Wide diaphanous laces that curl and dip In the ardent wind's embrace.…

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Where bold Sierras cut the sky Mount Whitney, of the high most high, Halts the pale clouds that wander by.…

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You are a painter—listen— I'll paint you a picture too! Of the long white lights that glisten Through Michigan Avenue;…

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