| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Shallows | | By Frances Dickenson Pinder |
| | From “Marsh Sketches”
I MUST swim out— | |
| Overlong have I stayed | |
| Here on the warm shale; | |
| Aimlessly played…. | |
| Gathering sea-shells | 5 |
| Empty and frail. | |
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| One dwindles here | |
| Where the tides creep— | |
| Grows dazzled, | |
| Gazing too long through the clear | 10 |
| Wave at the sun asleep | |
| On the sands overnear…. | |
| What if the thought of the deep | |
| Should become a fear? | |
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| I must swim out— | 15 |
| Lest the urge fail, | |
| Darken duskward | |
| And fade, as a sail. | | | | |
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