To a Very Modern Young Woman (verse)
Conkling, Grace Hazard
To a Very Modern Young Woman (Doubtfully) Your desk is genuine Louis Seize: Your pens inhabit crystal trays, And I confess I covet those Gorgeous tip-tilted flamingoes Carved of rose-quartz. Some...
...GRACE HAZARD CONKLING.ING...
...Here is his art: here, what he thought Of the strange creatures that now hold Captive your tossed irrelevant papers...
...You always do the thing you ought...
...But what have you to say...
...Some canny old Chinese had reasoned well enough This deep transparent sunset stuff Would show them at their solemn capers Over a mirror pool: he caught Their antic pose, the incredible way They wore the cloud: he saw them so At evening in a vague Cathay...
...This is your letter-writing day...
...Take up your pen of slender gold And write...
...For this was very long ago...
Vol. 11 • February 1930 • No. 15
