| Harriet Monroe, ed. (18601936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 191222. | | | | Night | | By Helen Hoyt |
| | From In a Certain City THE ROOM seems hushed and apart, | |
| A piece out of the night. | |
| Something stirs in my heart | |
| That never comes in the light: | |
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| Thought of the earth, of how old | 5 |
| And how large it lies in the dark | |
| And through the darkness is rolled | |
| Vastness, empty, stark, | |
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| Terrible and unreal, | |
| Wide about where I lie. | 10 |
| Is this how children feel | |
| When the dark makes them cry? | | | | |
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