| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | A Light Load (1891)
IV. Orpheus | | By Dollie Radford (1858–1920) |
| | | WE wandered in that shadow-land, | |
| My fair love, you and I, | |
| Through all its strangeness hand in hand | |
| We journeyed silently. | |
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| My lyre is hanging cold and dumb, | 5 |
| Mute with our triumph song, | |
| I have no voice now you are come, | |
| Whom I have sought so long. | |
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| But I will bring you in Love’s land, | |
| Into Love’s highest place, | 10 |
| And crown you there, and understand | |
| The wonder of your face. | |
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| And then my joyous song shall rise | |
| To sun and moon and star; | |
| And all the worlds beyond the skies | 15 |
| Shall tell how fair you are. | | | | |
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