Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Waves

Louise Townsend Nicholl

ONE by one upon my shore

The little waves are laid,

Each one a new and perfect thing

Which the sea has made.

From that which is forever old

They come, forever young,

The latest, faintest echoes

Of the song the sea has sung.

They echo it in whispers.

I listen ceaselessly,

For fear the echoes die away

And I should hear the sea.