Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

By Horæ Amoris: Songs and Sonnets (1903). II. The Heart-chamber

Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940)

GIVE me within your heart a little space,

Where only I may come,

And make myself a dwelling-place,

Who have no other home.

But which among the chambers of your heart

May unto me belong,—

The quiet study, where you dream apart

And turn your dreams to song?

Or closely-curtain’d alcove, set aside

For prayerful whispers low?

Or perfumed guest-room, with its doors flung wide,

Where all may come and go?

Not these, nor yet the chapel, built above,

Before whose inner shrine

You ministered long years unto a love

Whose image was not mine.

But ah! your place of sorrows, dear—the room

You enter soon or late,

Give me the key, that in its inner gloom

I may abide and wait.