| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Harbor | | By Carl Sandburg |
| | From “Chicago Poems”
PASSING through huddled and ugly walls, | |
| By doorways where women haggard | |
| Looked from their hunger-deep eyes, | |
| Haunted with shadows of hunger-hands, | |
| Out from the huddled and ugly walls, | 5 |
| I came sudden, at the city’s edge, | |
| On a blue burst of lake, | |
| Long lake waves breaking under the sun | |
| On a spray-flung curve of shore; | |
| And a fluttering storm of gulls, | 10 |
| Masses of great gray wings | |
| And flying white bellies | |
| Veering and wheeling free in the open. | | | | |
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