HAVE you seen e'er a sign of my Kitty? Have you seen a fair maiden go by Who was wed in this summer-struck city About the first week in July? How fair was her face there's no telling; She was well-nigh as wealthy as fair, And of marble and brick was her dwelling On the North side of Washington Square. Have you seen her at Newport a-driving? Have you seen her a-flirt at the pier? Is she written among the arriving At the Shoals or the Hamptons this year? Or out where the ocean bird flutters Are the sea-breezes tossing her hair? For closed are the ancient green shutters In the house on North Washington Square. So you, too, are trying to find her? Then climb up these stairways with me, That twist and grow blinder and blinder, Till the skylight near heaven you see. Is the sun my dull studio gilding? Ah, no, it is Kitty sits there— She has moved to the Studio Building On the South side of Washington Square. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WAY TO ARCADY by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER THE SWAN SONG OF PARSON AVERY by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER OVERTURE TO A DANCE OF LOCOMOTIVES by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE RECOLLECTION OF THE PEOPLE by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER FACTORY-GIRL by MAXWELL BODENHEIM BELINDA'S RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS by WILLIAM BROOME UNCLE SIMON AND UNCLE JIM by CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. BY LAKE WACHUSETT by EDWARD CARPENTER |