| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Miscellaneous Poems.
II. An Echo from Willowwood | | By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
| | “Oh ye, all ye that walk in willowwood.”
TWO gazed into a pool, he gazed and she, | |
| Not hand in hand, yet heart in heart, I think, | |
| Pale and reluctant on the water’s brink, | |
| As on the brink of parting which must be. | |
| Each eyed the other’s aspect, she and he, | 5 |
| Each felt one hungering heart leap up and sink, | |
| Each tasted bitterness which both must drink, | |
| There on the brink of life’s dividing sea. | |
| Lilies upon the surface, deep below | |
| Two wistful faces craving each for each, | 10 |
| Resolute and reluctant without speech:— | |
| A sudden ripple made the faces flow | |
| One moment joined, to vanish out of reach: | |
| So those hearts joined, and ah! were parted so. | | | | |
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