| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Sonnets.
II. Omar Khayyám | | By Graham R. Thomson (Rosamund Marriott Watson) (1860–1911) |
| | To A. L.
SAYER of sooth, and Searcher of dim skies! | |
| Lover of Song, and Sun, and Summertide, | |
| For whom so many roses bloomed and died; | |
| Tender Interpreter, most sadly wise, | |
| Of earth’s dumb, inarticulated cries! | 5 |
| Time’s self cannot estrange us, nor divide; | |
| Thy hand still beckons from the garden-side, | |
| Through green vine-garlands, when the Winter dies. | |
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| Thy calm lips smile on us, thine eyes are wet; | |
| The nightingale’s full song sobs all through thine, | 10 |
| And thine in hers,—part human, part divine! | |
| Among the deathless gods thy place is set, | |
| All-wise, but drowsy with Life’s mingled Wine, | |
| Laughter and Learning, Passion and Regret. | | | | |
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