| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Sea-music | | By Babette Deutsch |
| | | THERE is a place of bitter memories | |
| Dreary and wide and lonely as the sea, | |
| Foaming and moaning; there they come to me | |
| Like wild gulls crying sea-taught monodies: | |
| Iron-winged hours, heavy, heavy with dread; | 5 |
| Dawn after death; the sound of a shut door; | |
| And shining love that has a withered core; | |
| The eyes of those who fight and starve for bread. | |
| There is doom, and change, and silence, and denying; | |
| Memories of these pluck at the heart of me. | 10 |
| And over the bitter roar of the old dumb sea | |
| The air is filled with the noise of wild gulls crying. | | | | |
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