Ada Bartrick Baker (1854- ). A Palace of Dreams, and Other Verse (1901). VII. The Heart's Winter. Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

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

A Palace of Dreams, and Other Verse (1901)
VII. The Heart’s Winter

By Ada Bartrick Baker (1854– )


DEAD, dead, dead!
The dark clouds overhead
Never part to let light through
In a lovely rift of blue;
The trees have never a leaf,	5
The birds have never a song;
There’s only time for grief
The whole day long!

Lost, lost, lost
The trees are tempest-tost;	10
The wind as it rages by
Storms at the angry sky;
Not a single star appears
To lighten the heaven’s deep wrong;
And grief is too wild for tears	15
The whole night long!