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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Girl with the Camelia Smile

Marsden Hartley

From “Sunlight Persuasions”

EYES
Little vanity mirrors

From Damascus.

Her hair—
Is a packet of love-letters

Burned to a crisp—on the Sunday

Morning—of a sad young man.

Gowned one way—a maple leaf

Bitten with frost-lips—

Whisked from the last boughs
Of October.

The last wild leaf fierce with autumnal ecstasies.

He was one wind who danced with her—

The sad young Sunday-morning man.

He had seen her—gathering—
Shell-flowers

On a brown sea’s edge—

Before the moon had withered.