Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Autumn Songs (1889). II. Song: I Wonder will you Twine for MeMary M. Singleton (Violet Fane) (18431905)
BYRON.
I
Sad cypress wreaths when I am dead,
Or, sentinel,—like yon dark tree,
Watch, constant, o’er my lonely bed?
Escaped the slumb’ring fowler’s snare,
Plume your free’d wings, and heavenward
Soar blithely thro’ the ambient air?…
My spirit-heart, ’neath folded wings,—
If our poor sexless souls shall heed
The passing of terrestrial things!
At morn,—like falcon fresh and free
Soar sunwards,—but, at closing day
Be, sometimes, like the cypress tree;—
In centred thought, one little minute,—
Unclasp one closed-up book again
And read the story written in it!