Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
Enough Has Been Said of SunsetIris Barry
One thin veil drawn across blackness:
Is it dawn?…
Comes the twitter-whistle of sleepy birds
Crescendo …
Now bright grayness creeping
Drowns the dark; and waves of sea-wind
Rock the thin leaves …
A door bangs; sharp barks from dogs released, scampering.
After some silence, footsteps.
And the rising bustle of people
Roused by the day-break.
Mysterious; threatening:
Dawn over housetops silhouetted
Like crenelated battlements
Against light of a stage scene.