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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Songs to a Singer, and Other Verses (1906). II. The Falling Star

Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940)

ONE star has left its purple track

And from the happy skies

Has pierced that ocean blind and black,

Whence never star nor ship came back,

Where hope extinguished lies.

O fall not thou, my star, whose light

Is all too dear for speech,

To hidden deeps, where stark and white

My wrecked hopes drift through gulfs too dark

For love’s own lamp to reach.