| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Not in the Whirlwind | | By Karle Wilson Baker |
| | | DO I speak soft and little— | |
| Do I offer you a drop of honey in a bent brown leaf? | |
| Yet I too have been rent by the whirlwind: | |
| I have lain trembling under its bellowings; | |
| I have endured its fangs; | 5 |
| I have heard it hiss and groan, “Bitterness, bitterness!” | |
| But all I have left, | |
| After its searchings and its rendings, | |
| May be told in a soft voice | |
| And is sweet— | 10 |
| Sweet, | |
| Like a drop of thick honey in a bent brown leaf. | | | | |
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