Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Poems. III. Never to KnowIsa (Craig) Knox (18311903)
O
Silently sitting;
One without on the falling snow,
Wearily flitting;
Never to know
That one looked out with yearning sighs,
While one looked in with wistful eyes,
And went unwitting.
Wearily wended?
Under the stars and under the snow
His journey ended!
Never to know
That the answer came to those wistful eyes,
But passed away in those yearning sighs,
With night winds blended.
Yearned forth with sighing?
More sad, to my thinking, her fate, the glow
Drearily dying;
Never to know
That for a moment her lite was nigh,
And she knew it not and it passed her by,
Recall denying.
Dreaming and waking—
Each to a poet revealed its woe,
Wasting and breaking;
Never to know
That if each to other had but done so,
Both had rejoiced in the crimson glow,
And one had not lain ’neath the stars and snow
Forsaken—forsaking!