| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Songs to a Singer, and Other Verses (1906)
IV. The Bitter Melody | | By Rosa Newmarch (1857–1940) |
| | | IF I must name the song in which | |
| Your voice has touched my spirit most, | |
| ’Twas not that splendid music, rich | |
| In clarion-cries from Love’s glad host, | |
| When victory and passion meet | 5 |
| In lives that never knew defeat. | |
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| ’Twas in that bitter melody, | |
| Wherein love’s triumph had no part, | |
| Which like a lone, unanswered sea | |
| Wailed in its woe, until my heart | 10 |
| Heard its own voiceless pain that spoke | |
| And, realising, sobbed and broke. | | | | |
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