| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Horæ Amoris: Songs and Sonnets (1903)
I. At Sunset | | By Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940) |
| | | LO, since I saw thee, whereso’er I move | |
| The blessed sunlight shines upon my way, | |
| That until now through wastes of darkness lay; | |
| Whereon no rosy shafts fell from above, | |
| Nor transient gleams of brightness to disprove | 5 |
| My dread of life’s intolerable grey. | |
| How hast thou turned my darkness into day, | |
| Who art my brighter sunlight, O my love! | |
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| But if at day’s decline, when silently | |
| The sun-glow creeps from off the golden lawn, | 10 |
| Where white as kindling stars the daisies lie, | |
| I felt your love as silently withdrawn: | |
| Should I have heart to live until the dawn, | |
| Or pray that in the darkness I might die? | | | | |
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