| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Poems.
XII. To Christina Rossetti | | By Dora Greenwell (1821–1882) |
| | | | “I have mingled my grapes and my wine.” |
| The Song of Songs |
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THOU hast filled me a golden cup | |
| With a drink divine that glows, | |
| With the bloom that is flowing up | |
| From the heart of the folded rose. | |
| The grapes in their amber glow, | 5 |
| And the strength of the blood-red wine | |
| All mingle and change and flow | |
| In this golden cup of thine. | |
| With the scent of the curling wine | |
| With the balm of the rose’s breath,— | 10 |
| For the voice of love is thine, | |
| And thine is the Song of Death! | | | |
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