Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

By Songs to a Singer, and Other Verses (1906). IV. The Bitter Melody

Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940)

IF I must name the song in which

Your voice has touched my spirit most,

’Twas not that splendid music, rich

In clarion-cries from Love’s glad host,

When victory and passion meet

In lives that never knew defeat.

’Twas in that bitter melody,

Wherein love’s triumph had no part,

Which like a lone, unanswered sea

Wailed in its woe, until my heart

Heard its own voiceless pain that spoke

And, realising, sobbed and broke.