Secrets
Marie Hedderwick
Browne
Browne, Marie Hedderwick
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poem signed M. Hedderwick Browne.
Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Browne was paid 10s 6d for the poem (NLS Dep 341/370). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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July roses wet with rain
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Secret
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July roses wet with rain
Tap against the window-pane ;
There is something they would seek,
Had they voices and could speak.
Silence seals their crimson lips,
And the dull rain drops and drips.
T’ other side the streaming glass
Stands a little sad-eyed lass ;
There is something she would seek,
But a maiden may not speak—
Silence seals her longing lips,
And the dull rain drops and drips.
And a shower of salt tears stain
Her side of the window-pane ;
And the crimson roses grow
Pale as dreams dreamt long ago
(Hearts may break behind sealed lips),
And the dull rain drops and drips.
M. Hedderwick Browne
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