Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Songs of Greater Britain (1899). III. The SkylarkCicely Fox-Smith (18821954)
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Whose wondrous rapture, wild and long,
A hundred bards in vain have striven
To prison in a song!
What passions make thy glad throat swell
That, throbbing at thy fiery heart,
Thou feel’st but canst not tell?
The joys that thro’ thy pæan glow
That joy that soars so high it seems
About to break in woe?
That fills our eyes with sudden tears,
While back upon the fancy throng
Memories of vanished years!
We cannot know what thou dost sing
And better it should ever be
An undiscovered thing.