Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Love in Exile (Songs). V. (X.) On Lifes Long RoundMathilde Blind (18411896)
O
A dell impearled with dew,
Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground
Lent to the earth heaven’s native hue
Of holy blue.
Once more in gloomy hours;
But snow had fallen overnight
And wrapped in mortuary white
My fairy ring of flowers.