The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1916
Cecilia's Portrait
Cecilia's Portrait.
Mild ivory of her clinging robe
Net-worked with flickering coal-fire gleams!
The morning-tinted filmy hair
Gold-framed her haunting lily-face.
'Twas so he painted her. I watched
Her face beside the open window
Looking toward the unfathomed sky.
Her pose so spiritual it woke
In me an ever wondering guess
Of what fair thing she sighted there.
Yet by her feet and in the shadow
Were the dancing firelight gleams,
And she was still as child of earth,—
Cecilia the woman-soul
With eyes uplifted to the sky
And footsteps dwelling by the fire.
—M. E. H.