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 HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 131 by PETRARCH AN OLD BATTLE-FIELD by FRANK LEBBY STANTON EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 1. THE GARGOYLE by ALBERTA BANCROFT THE LAY OF THE OLD WOMAN CLOTHED IN GREY; A LEGEND OF DOVER by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |