| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Poems.
III. Never to Know | | By Isa (Craig) Knox (1831–1903) |
| | | ONE within in a crimson glow, | |
| Silently sitting; | |
| One without on the falling snow, | |
| Wearily flitting; | |
| Never to know | 5 |
| That one looked out with yearning sighs, | |
| While one looked in with wistful eyes, | |
| And went unwitting. | |
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| What came of the one without, that so | |
| Wearily wended? | 10 |
| Under the stars and under the snow | |
| His journey ended! | |
| Never to know | |
| That the answer came to those wistful eyes, | |
| But passed away in those yearning sighs, | 15 |
| With night winds blended. | |
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| What came of the one within, that so | |
| Yearned forth with sighing? | |
| More sad, to my thinking, her fate, the glow | |
| Drearily dying; | 20 |
| Never to know | |
| That for a moment her lite was nigh, | |
| And she knew it not and it passed her by, | |
| Recall denying. | |
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| These were two hearts that long ago— | 25 |
| Dreaming and waking— | |
| Each to a poet revealed its woe, | |
| Wasting and breaking; | |
| Never to know | |
| That if each to other had but done so, | 30 |
| Both had rejoiced in the crimson glow, | |
| And one had not lain ’neath the stars and snow | |
| Forsaken—forsaking! | | | | |
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