The Mind
Alone
From Ardours and Endurances (1917)
The Mind
The grey wind and the grey sea
Tossing under the long grey sky....
My heart is lonelier than the wind;
My heart is emptier than the sky,
And beats more heavily
Than the cold surge beneath the gull,
Wheeling with his reiterant cry
Of loneliness.... All, all is lone:
Alone!...
And so am I.
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MLA
Nichols, Robert. “Alone.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/nichols/31/.
Chicago
Nichols, Robert. “Alone.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/nichols/31/.
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