| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Songs to a Singer, and Other Verses (1906)
II. The Falling Star | | By Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940) |
| | | ONE star has left its purple track | |
| And from the happy skies | |
| Has pierced that ocean blind and black, | |
| Whence never star nor ship came back, | |
| Where hope extinguished lies. | 5 |
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| O fall not thou, my star, whose light | |
| Is all too dear for speech, | |
| To hidden deeps, where stark and white | |
| My wrecked hopes drift through gulfs too dark | |
| For love’s own lamp to reach. | 10 | | | |
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