Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Cuckoo Songs (1894). I. Gods BirdKatharine Tynan Hinkson (18611931)
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No golden eagle I,
That creep half-fainting on the sward
And have not wings to fly.
That, faring home to Thee,
Looks on the storm and hath no fear
And broods above the sea.
Meek as Thyself, Thou Lamb!
I would I were the dove, Thy love,
And not the thing I am!
To be Thy sparrow, then;
Were two sparrows in Holy Land,
One farthing bought the twain.
That trembles in Thy hold;
And who shall pluck me out again
And cast me in the cold?
A thing of little price,
If Thou one thought on me hast cast,
Lo, then my paradise!