| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| Pierrette in Memory |
| | | William Griffith |
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| PIERRETTE has gone, but it was not | |
| Exactly that she died, | |
| So much as vanished and forgot | |
| To tell where she would hide. | |
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| To keep a sudden rendezvous, | 5 |
| It came into her mind | |
| That she was late. What could she do | |
| But leave distress behind? | |
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| Afraid of being in disgrace, | |
| And hurrying to dress, | 10 |
| She heard there was another place | |
| In need of loveliness. | |
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| She went so softly and so soon, | |
| She hardly made a stir; | |
| But going took the stars and moon | 15 |
| And sun away with her. | |
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