| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | A Summer Night and Other Poems (1891)
IV. Chimæra | | By Graham R. Thomson (Rosamund Marriott Watson) (1860–1911) |
| | | THE YELLOW light of an opal | |
| On the white-walled houses dies | |
| The roadway beyond my garden | |
| It glimmers with golden eyes. | |
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| Alone in the faint spring twilight, | 5 |
| The crepuscle vague and blue, | |
| Every beat of my pulses | |
| Is quickened by dreams of you. | |
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| You whom I know and know not | |
| You come as you came before | 10 |
| Here, in the misty quiet, | |
| I greet you again once more. | |
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| Welcome, O best belovèd— | |
| Life of my life—for lo! | |
| All that I ask you promise, | 15 |
| All that I seek you know. | |
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| The dim grass stirs with your footstep, | |
| The blue dusk throbs with your smile; | |
| I and the world of glory | |
| Are one for a little while. * * * * * | 20 |
| The spring sun shows me your shadow, | |
| The spring wind bears me your breath, | |
| You are mine for a passing moment, | |
| But I am yours to the death. | | | | |
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