| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Horæ Amoris: Songs and Sonnets (1903)
II. The Heart-chamber | | By Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940) |
| | | GIVE me within your heart a little space, | |
| Where only I may come, | |
| And make myself a dwelling-place, | |
| Who have no other home. | |
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| But which among the chambers of your heart | 5 |
| May unto me belong,— | |
| The quiet study, where you dream apart | |
| And turn your dreams to song? | |
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| Or closely-curtain’d alcove, set aside | |
| For prayerful whispers low? | 10 |
| Or perfumed guest-room, with its doors flung wide, | |
| Where all may come and go? | |
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| Not these, nor yet the chapel, built above, | |
| Before whose inner shrine | |
| You ministered long years unto a love | 15 |
| Whose image was not mine. | |
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| But ah! your place of sorrows, dear—the room | |
| You enter soon or late, | |
| Give me the key, that in its inner gloom | |
| I may abide and wait. | 20 | | | |
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