Betrothed
Kate
Mellersh
Mellersh, Kate
Metadata research and editing
DVPP Project Team
Fralick
Kaitlyn
University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Miss K. Mellersh was paid 10s 6d for the poem (NLS Dep 341/370). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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Dear, as I listen to your voice, Love’s light
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Dear, as I listen to your voice, Love’s light
Falls in full glory over all the land ;
And I ? I scarce can see. With trembling hand
I needs must shade my eyes, since all too bright
The dazzling radiance shines. Through shadowy night
Erst I looked up, and longed but for a strand
Of light from some dim star ; at your command,
Lo, day breaks, with no dawning, on my sight !
Deem me not cold, beloved, but only slow
To realise how my poor life is blest.
Thus hold my hands in yours until they grow
Warm in your clasp ; and thus, dear, let me rest—
All the sweet peace of Love at last to know—
Here with my glad face hidden on your breast !
Kate Mellersh
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