| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | A Light Load (1891)
I. Spring Song | | By Dollie Radford (1858–1920) |
| | | AH love, the sweet spring blossoms cling | |
| To many a broken wind-tossed bough, | |
| And young birds among branches sing | |
| That mutely hung till now. | |
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| The little new-born things which lie | 5 |
| In dewy meadows, sleep and dream | |
| Beside the brook that twinkles by | |
| To some great lonely stream. | |
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| And children, now the day is told, | |
| From many a warm and cosy nest, | 10 |
| Look up to see the young moon hold | |
| The old moon to her breast. | |
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| Dear love, my pulses throb and start | |
| To-night with longings sweet and new, | |
| And young hopes beat within a heart | 15 |
| Grown old in loving you. | | | | |
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