Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Sonnets. I. EvolutionEmily Pfeiffer (1841–1890)
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Of the sea-flower, that drivest rooted things
To break their moorings, that unfoldest wings
In creatures to be rapt above thy harms;
Hunger, of whom the hungry-seeming waves
Were the first ministers, till, free to range,
Thou mad’st the Universe thy park and grange,
What is it thine insatiate heart still craves?
Maker of all that breathes the breath of life,
No unthrift greed spurs thine unflagging zest,
No lust self-slaying hounds thee to the strife;
Thou art the Unknown God on whom we wait:
Thy path the course of our unfolding fate.