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

By Selected Poems (1900). V. To a Little Child

Annie Matheson (1853–1924)

CLEAR eyes of heaven’s chosen hue

When not a cloud is seen above

To fleck the warm untroubled blue,

A little laughing face of love;

A boundless energy of life

In dimpled arms and rosy feet;

No breath of care, no touch of strife,

Has dulled thy glad heart’s rhythmic beat.

So girt about with golden light,

By shadows still so little vexed,

That many a weary anxious wight

Grows in thy presence less perplexed.

Our smiles come at thy fairy beck,

Frowns pass away at thy caress;

When thy soft arms are round my neck

I feel God’s wondrous tenderness.