| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917. |
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| 301. Dagonet’s Canzonet |
| | | By Ernest Rhys |
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| A QUEEN lived in the South; | |
| And music was her mouth, | |
| And sunshine was her hair, | |
| By day, and all the night | |
| The drowsy embers there | 5 |
| Remember’d still the light; | |
| My soul, was she not fair! | |
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| But for her eyes—they made | |
| An iron man afraid; | |
| Like sky-blue pools they were, | 10 |
| Watching the sky that knew | |
| Itself transmuted there | |
| Light blue, or deeper blue; | |
| My soul, was she not fair! | |
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| The lifting of her hands | 15 |
| Made laughter in the lands | |
| Where the sun is, in the South: | |
| But my soul learnt sorrow there | |
| In the secrets of her mouth, | |
| Her eyes, her hands, her hair: | 20 |
| O soul, was she not fair! | |
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