Charles Granville. The Mourner. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

The Mourner

By Charles Granville


From “Poems of the Hour” O SEA, whose tides are as eternity,
Whose ebb and flow survive all human pain!
O timeless sea! heal now this wound of time
That my life-tide may flow in hope again:

But if, though willing, thou art impotent,	5
Beseech in pity the bland, pain-rid moon
That she will take unto herself this heart,
And in her bosom fashion it to stone.