| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | A Light Load (1891)
II. Song: “Amid a Crown of Radiant Hills” | | By Dollie Radford (1858–1920) |
| | | AMID a crown of radiant hills, | |
| A little wood with blossoms rare | |
| Breathes sweetly, while the young lark trills | |
| His new learnt melody and fills | |
| The fragrant air. | 5 |
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| Among its boughs the fresh winds play, | |
| And, where the spreading branches part, | |
| The sunlight drops from spray to spray, | |
| And seeks the ferny streams which stray | |
| Within its heart. | 10 |
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| And there the wild bee fills his cells, | |
| And murmurs through the golden hours, | |
| And charmèd fancies and sweet spells, | |
| Are woven in the tall blue-bells | |
| And cuckoo-flowers. | 15 |
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| There many a mossy bank entwined | |
| With shining leaves awaits our choice, | |
| Come swiftly love, my soul unbind | |
| With thy dear looks, that it may find | |
| Its prisoned voice. | 20 | | | |
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