| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Surrender | | By Irwin Granich |
| | | LOVE me, child of the morning! | |
| Happy blossom in the wind, love me. | |
| See, I am sad—I have dwelt long in chaos, | |
| And my hands and my feet are star-pierced. | |
| Love me…. | 5 |
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| Love me. | |
| I have won through a thousand glooms to your heart, | |
| I have stifled in the dark of Nothingness, | |
| I have wrestled with suns and moons. | |
| Now love me, with laughter staunch my wounds…. | 10 |
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| Road-stained, harsh and weary, hungered of joy, | |
| Once I climbed to the end…. | |
| But there was no end—there was Night. | |
| Kiss me, blind me with the hot mercy of your lips, | |
| God is Night …. only Night…. | 15 |
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| I will never journey…. | |
| I will forsake the flinty roads of the eternal, | |
| I will rest here in your kindness. | |
| I will forsake the sun and moon and stars, | |
| And live here in your laughter. | 20 | | | |
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