Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
Girl with the Camelia SmileMarsden Hartley
From “Sunlight Persuasions”
E
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.
The sad young Sunday-morning man.
He had seen her—gathering—
Shell-flowers
Before the moon had withered.