| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | To L. S. | | By Glenway Wescott |
| | From “Still-hunt”
I O YOU | |
| Wing-of-the-wind, | |
| Why do you chant | |
| Ree, ree, with the mourning-dove, | |
| And dee, dee, with the male gannet— | 5 |
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| When you may live forever | |
| In the fray of her feathers, | |
| And in the tumult of the dark wave | |
| Where he pillows | |
| In all weathers? | 10 |
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II Why the perpetual sway | |
| Of the air? | |
| Why the rift of the heaven | |
| Into light and dark, | |
| Into black and white of division? | 15 |
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| Women are deeper than sound. | |
| They are the storm, which continues | |
| In quiet, in peace, in sunshine, | |
| Healing and building | |
| In the air the airy sinews. | 20 | | | |
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