| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Horæ Amoris: Songs and Sonnets (1903)
VI. The City of Hope | | By Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940) |
| | (Moscow)
BEYOND the plains where mighty rivers flow | |
| The City of my Hope lies eastward yet, | |
| Like gold embraid, in blue enamel set, | |
| There Cross and Crescent in the sunlight glow. | |
| There ruby, green and turquoise, row on row, | 5 |
| Rise swelling dome and carven minaret, | |
| Whose shadows, azure-shot or violet, | |
| Trace strange devices on the spotless snow. | |
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| What if some day I held you warm and fast | |
| At sunset, while we scoured the glittering drift | 10 |
| Behind three black Orlovian horses swift, | |
| Till at the Saviour’s Gate, outside the wall, | |
| My tangled present and your bitter past | |
| Were dropped, like dreams at dawn beyond recall? | | | | |
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