| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Horæ Amoris: Songs and Sonnets (1903)
III. At the Piano | | By Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940) |
| | “Sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.”
PLAY me some sober tune of long ago: | |
| A minuet of Lulli, stately sweet, | |
| Or march of Handel, strong in rhythmic beat, | |
| Wherein no tides of passion come and go. | |
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| For, dearest, if you plunge my soul again | 5 |
| In those dark waters, turbulent and deep, | |
| Of Schumann’s anguish, I must surely weep | |
| Fresh tears into that bitter sea of pain. | | | | |
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