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

By Poems. VI. Wind and Stars

Isa (Craig) Knox (1831–1903)

THE STARS are shining fixt and bright,

I stand upon the windy height,

Alone with sorrow and the night.

O stars so high, from earth apart,

Ye are the hopes that stirred my heart;

O wind, its beating wings thou art.

The wind may rave, the starry spheres

Unheeding shine, nor moved by fears

Nor shaken into trembling tears.

O hush, wild heart, regarded not,

Sink to the level of thy lot,

In pity sink, and be forgot.