Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

By Horæ Amoris: Songs and Sonnets (1903). I. At Sunset

Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940)

LO, since I saw thee, whereso’er I move

The blessed sunlight shines upon my way,

That until now through wastes of darkness lay;

Whereon no rosy shafts fell from above,

Nor transient gleams of brightness to disprove

My dread of life’s intolerable grey.

How hast thou turned my darkness into day,

Who art my brighter sunlight, O my love!

But if at day’s decline, when silently

The sun-glow creeps from off the golden lawn,

Where white as kindling stars the daisies lie,

I felt your love as silently withdrawn:

Should I have heart to live until the dawn,

Or pray that in the darkness I might die?