Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By A Summer Night and Other Poems (1891). I. A Summer NightGraham R. Thomson (Rosamund Marriott Watson) (18601911)
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The gas-lights flare—
Deep yellow jewels set
In dusky air,
In dim air subtly sweet
With vanished rain.
Again—again—
Life’s music swells and falls,
Despairing—light—
Beyond my garden walls
This summer night.
O voice that cries!
O murky evening air,
What Paradise,
Unsought, unfound, unknown
Inviteth me,
With faint night-odours blown?
With murmurous plea?
Hope, or Regret?
My heart throbs thick and fast,
Mine eyes are wet,
For well and well I know
Thou hast no share,
Nor hence, nor long ago,
Nor anywhere.