| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Songs to a Singer, and Other Verses (1906)
I. The Rose of Song | | By Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940) |
| | | | “Strange rose which blossoms free |
| On boughs of an enchanted tree |
| And sings like any bird.” |
| ANDREW LANG. |
SHE stands superb; a queen apart | |
| From all the radiant, jewelled throng, | |
| As when a rose unfolds among | |
| The gay parterres her glowing heart, | |
| All lesser flowers, though rare and sweet, | 5 |
| Must seem but subjects at her feet. | |
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| She sings: each lifted face in turn | |
| Is touched with rapture or with pain, | |
| O voice, wherein life’s triumphs reign, | |
| O voice, wherein life’s passions yearn. | 10 |
| My heart salutes her—queen above | |
| All queens, my singing rose of love! | | | | |
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