Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922.

Dusk at Sea

TO-NIGHT eternity alone is near:

The sea, the sunset, and the darkening blue;

Within their shelter is no space for fear,

Only the wonder that such things are true.

The thought of you is like the dusk at sea—

Space and wide freedom and old shores left far,

The shelter of a lone immensity

Sealed by the sunset and the evening star.