| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Wings of the Morning (1904)
III. Afterglow | | By Cicely Fox-Smith (1882–1954) |
| | | WET, streaming sand, and the tide going down; | |
| Boats on the beach, and the sails patched and brown, | |
| And the hearth-smoke hanging blue up above the drowsy town. | |
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| Strong scent of weed blowing off the harbour-bar, | |
| A liner’s trail of smoke on the skyline faint and far, | 5 |
| And the bell-buoy clanging, and a lonely star. | |
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| Wet gleaming shore, and the sea-gull sweeping free, | |
| A swinging lamp alight in the ropes by the quay, | |
| And the wind singing low of a ship that waits for me. | | | | |
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