#algonquin round table
And wayward vines go roaming,
Where the lilacs nod, and a marble god
Is pale, in scented gloaming.
And at sunset there comes a lady fair
Whose eyes are deep with yearning.
By an old, old gate does the lady wait
Her own true love’s returning.
And trembling birds seek cover;
Yet the lady stands, with her long white hands
Held out to greet her lover.
And it’s there she’ll stay till the shadowy day
A monument they grave her.
She will always wait by the same old gate, —
The gate her true love gave her.
The Algonquin Round Table as drawn by Al Hirschfeld, 1920s.
Seated at the back left are Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt. Standing are Frank Crowninshield and Algonquin owner Frank Case. Seated, clockwise from the left, are Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Franklin P. Adams, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, and Robert Sherwood.
Others usually associated with the Round Table are Margalo Gillmore, Jane Grant, Beatrice Kaufman, Ruth Hale, Margaret Leech Pulitzer, Neysa McMein, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Harpo Marx, William B. Murray, Brock Pemberton, Harold Ross, Alfred Samuels, Donald Ogden Stewart, Frank Sullivan, Deems Taylor, John Peter Toohey, David Wallace, John V.A. Weaver, and Peggy Wood.
Al Hirschfeld via the Al Hirschfeld Foundation
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