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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By A Palace of Dreams, and Other Verse (1901). VII. The Heart’s Winter

Ada Bartrick Baker (1854– )

DEAD, dead, dead!

The dark clouds overhead

Never part to let light through

In a lovely rift of blue;

The trees have never a leaf,

The birds have never a song;

There’s only time for grief

The whole day long!

Lost, lost, lost

The trees are tempest-tost;

The wind as it rages by

Storms at the angry sky;

Not a single star appears

To lighten the heaven’s deep wrong;

And grief is too wild for tears

The whole night long!