| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Human Speech | | By Samuel Roth |
| | | I KNOW the shady moving of its waves | |
| Circling old shores of thought all solemnly; | |
| Its loves and hates; its moods storm-taught and free. | |
| For like the sea it hides a million graves | |
| Beneath an iron gleam that darkly braves | 5 |
| The sun and storm. It heaves too like the sea, | |
| Full of its life, and flees to Memory | |
| Even as she flees to her shaggy caves. | |
| Three massive silences creation’s Lord | |
| Wrought in the heart of life: before the birth | 10 |
| The silence of the dead stirring again; | |
| The hush of Love wielding a flaming sword | |
| Which holds the swerving passions of the earth; | |
| And the great silence in the speech of men. | | | | |
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