Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By A Lovers Breast-Knot (1896). II. Love ComfortlessKatharine Tynan Hinkson (18611931)
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On whom no tenderest wind might blow,
And out alone in a hurricane.
Ah, no,
The child is safe in Paradise!
His little feet are in the snow,
O, very cold is his small bed!
Ah, no,
Lift up your heart, lift up your eyes!
Beside the lonely river’s flow,
Lieth the child this bitter night.
Ah, no,
The child sleeps under Mary’s eyes!
Whilst I with fire and comfort go?
O, let me warm him in my breast!
Ah, no,
’Tis warm in God’s lit nurseries!