The Mind

Alone

by Robert Nichols 1893–1944

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.

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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