Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By A Lovers Breast-Knot (1896). I. Loves TroubleKatharine Tynan Hinkson (18611931)
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The wounding wind;
O wandering love, return again,
Turn, and be kind!
The distant thunder in the hills
I fear for you;
I fear the lightning’s spear that kills,
Wavering, blue.
O noonday sun,
Rest quietly on his dear head,
My dearest one!
For you all evil beasts I fear,
All foul affrights,
With winged shadows that creep anear
In lonely nights.
In day and dark!
Lest nigh his path, in lily and rose,
The serpent lurk.
O, sleepless eyes of blessed ones,
Watch o’er my love;
And wings that shame th’ eternal suns
Winnow above!