Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | A Light Load (1891) I. Spring Song | By Dollie Radford (18581920) |
| 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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