Grace Hazard Conkling. Vera Cruz. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Vera Cruz

By Grace Hazard Conkling


From “Songs for Places” Old Mexico I SEE them in the storm-washed light,
Like ebony against the sand;
The wrecks of ships lost long ago
From many a mellow land.

Oh, may the sand soon cover them,	5
And all their sorrow be unlearned!
They are too like those dreams of mine
That nevermore returned.