Louise Townsend Nicholl. Waves. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Waves

By 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	5
They come, forever young,
The latest, faintest echoes
Of the song the sea has sung.

They echo it in whispers.
I listen ceaselessly,	10
For fear the echoes die away
And I should hear the sea.