| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Sown | | By Charles R. Murphy |
| | From “Growth”
RAIN and the patience of the planted field, | |
| Grey skies that hasten to the need | |
| Of brown moistening earth, and to the sealed | |
| Faint harvest in the unbroken seed— | |
| Patience for waiting give us! O planted men, | 5 |
| Who waits your budding and your heaped | |
| Flowers of death? Again, again | |
| Perhaps ye shall return—the reapers, not the reaped— | |
| And, braver than corn-seed hid away together, | |
| Of our meagre or our mighty yield | 10 |
| Shall wake for the gathering in harvest weather. | | | | |
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