| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Alien | | By C. Cunningham |
| | | MISSISSIPPI, you mothered me when the child in me was young; | |
| You taught me the song of the soothing waves, the current’s cooing tongue; | |
| You laughed with me when my heart leaped high, you told how a grief is borne: | |
| The world away from your shining smile is a strange world, half forlorn, | |
| And the old child in me yearns for you—the strength of your steady flow— | 5 |
| With a longing only the river-born, your wandering children, know. | | | | |
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