• A great, still Shape, alone,
      She sits (her harp has fallen) on the sand,
    And sees her children, one by one, depart:—
    Her cloak (that hides what sins beside her own!)
      Wrapped fold on fold about her. Lo,
          She comforts her fierce heart,
    As wailing some, and some gay-singing go,
    With the far vision of that Greater Land
          ...

  • A Seaside Portrait
    A GREAT, still Shape, alone,
      She sits (her harp has fallen) on the sand,
    And sees her children, one by one, depart:—
    Her cloak (that hides what sins beside her own!)
      Wrapped fold on fold about her. Lo,
        She comforts her fierce heart,
    As wailing some, and some gay-singing go,
    With the far vision of that...