| Poems by Women |
THE WOOD-DOVE'S NOTE
Emily Huntington Miller [1833-1913]
Meadows with yellow cowslips all aglow,
Glory of
sunshine on the uplands bare,
And faint and far, with sweet elusive
flow,
The Wood-dove's plaintive call,
"O where! where! where!"
Straight with old Omar in the almond grove
From whitening boughs I breathe
the odors rare
And hear the princess mourning for her love
With sad
unwearied plaint,
"O where! where! where!"
New madrigals in each soft pulsing throat -
New life upleaping to the
brooding air -
Still the heart answers to that questing note,
"Soul of the
vanished years,
O where! where! where!"
From: Stevenson, Burton Egbert.
The Home Book of Verse.
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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.
Citing poems from these pages:
| Author. "Poem Title." Women's History: Poems by Women. Jone Johnson Lewis, editor. URL: (date of logon) |
