| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Sonnets.
III. Dreaming | | By Emily Pfeiffer (1841–1890) |
| | | WHEN vexed with waking thought, and its dull gleam, | |
| I—waiting on the shore of Time—oft close | |
| Mine eyes, and while the ocean ebbs and flows | |
| Around me, hear its murmurous voice, and dream. | |
| And sometimes dreaming thus, the Will supreme | 5 |
| My thoughts have bent beneath, will seem to be | |
| A Will, not working by its sole decree, | |
| But one that wrestles with a counter-stream. | |
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| And dreaming thus, my heart will give a bound | |
| Of yearning love, and wake me with a cry; | 10 |
| Oh for the feet of Hermes that I might— | |
| A chartered messenger—spurn back the ground | |
| And through the reeling world be charged to fly, | |
| With but one word to help Him in the fight. | | | | |
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