Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Poems. X. GoneDora Greenwell (18211882)
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Of somewhat falling in between the silence and the prayer,
So soon as it hath reached the ear whereto its errand lies;
Of Somewhat, forceful and unseen, that sought to hold him there;
Both hands to stay his rising up, and Somewhat in his breast,
For one that ever prayed for thee, this night hath passed away;
That leads to God’s great treasure-house, grew covetous; and there
(So lowly, yet importunate!) and ever with thy name
One Other Name, so strong, that thine hath never missed its way.
Within the Gate, where many a prayer of hers had gone before;
Of ‘Holy, holy,’ so that now I know not if she prays;
From Earth; thy name upriseth now no more; pray on, pray on!”