Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By An Italian Garden (1886). II. Venetian NocturneA. Mary F. Robinson-Darmesteter (18571944)
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The houses are so high;
Silent and alone we pierced the night’s dim core and centre—
Only you and I.
Sounding like a bell;
Sounding like a voice that cries to souls in Life’s enslavement,
“There is Death as well!”
Made us hold our breath;
All the white Salute towers and domes in moonlit brightness,—
Ah! could this be Death?