Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

By A Summer Night and Other Poems (1891). I. A Summer Night

Graham R. Thomson (Rosamund Marriott Watson) (1860–1911)

THE LINDEN leaves are wet,

The gas-lights flare—

Deep yellow jewels set

In dusky air,

In dim air subtly sweet

With vanished rain.

Hush!—from the distant street

Again—again—

Life’s music swells and falls,

Despairing—light—

Beyond my garden walls

This summer night.

Where do you call me, where?

O voice that cries!

O murky evening air,

What Paradise,

Unsought, unfound, unknown

Inviteth me,

With faint night-odours blown?

With murmurous plea?

Future art thou, or Past?

Hope, or Regret?

My heart throbs thick and fast,

Mine eyes are wet,

For well and well I know

Thou hast no share,

Nor hence, nor long ago,

Nor anywhere.