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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Sea Gulls

Mary Carolyn Davies

From “Wanderings”

“I AM the white gull overhead!”

To my love I said;

And stretched my arms and cried

With the swift gull’s cry.

But I shall have no freedom till I die;

I shall know never lift of sky

Or sweep of sea:

I am chained cruelly by his love of me.