Hortense Flexner. Voyage. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Voyage

By Hortense Flexner


OUT of the night I hear a voice,
Out of the sea a cry.
The swift, white arms of the reaching waves
Toss as we pass them by;
The foam hands grasp in the emptiness,	5
And sink in the black to die.

I lean to the night, I lean to the sea,
To the round on round of blue,
Where the barren stretch of the moon-laced waves
Divides the world in two;	10
There is no comfort in the dark,
I may not come to you.