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

By Songs to a Singer, and Other Verses (1906). I. The Rose of Song

Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940)

  • “Strange rose which blossoms free
  • On boughs of an enchanted tree
  • And sings like any bird.”
  • ANDREW LANG.

    • SHE stands superb; a queen apart

    From all the radiant, jewelled throng,

    As when a rose unfolds among

    The gay parterres her glowing heart,

    All lesser flowers, though rare and sweet,

    Must seem but subjects at her feet.

    She sings: each lifted face in turn

    Is touched with rapture or with pain,

    O voice, wherein life’s triumphs reign,

    O voice, wherein life’s passions yearn.

    My heart salutes her—queen above

    All queens, my singing rose of love!


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