| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | A Lover’s Breast-Knot (1896)
II. Love Comfortless | | By Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861–1931) |
| | | THE CHILD is in the night and rain | |
| On whom no tenderest wind might blow, | |
| And out alone in a hurricane. | |
| Ah, no, | |
| The child is safe in Paradise! | 5 |
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| The snow is on his gentle head, | |
| His little feet are in the snow, | |
| O, very cold is his small bed! | |
| Ah, no, | |
| Lift up your heart, lift up your eyes! | 10 |
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| Over the fields and out of sight, | |
| Beside the lonely river’s flow, | |
| Lieth the child this bitter night. | |
| Ah, no, | |
| The child sleeps under Mary’s eyes! | 15 |
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| What wandering lamb cries sore distressed, | |
| Whilst I with fire and comfort go? | |
| O, let me warm him in my breast! | |
| Ah, no, | |
| ’Tis warm in God’s lit nurseries! | 20 | | | |
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