Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SILENCE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY


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First Line: Curse on this tongue, that has my heart betraid
Last Line: We know the flood runs still, though under-ground.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Silence


1.

CUrse on this Tongue, that has my Heart betraid,
And his great Secret open laid!
For of all Persons chiefly She
Should not the ills I suffer know;
Since 'tis a thing might dang'rous grow,
Only in her to Pity Me:
Since 'tis for Me to lose my Life more fit,
Then 'tis for her to save and ransome it.

2.

Ah, never more shall thy unwilling eare
My helplesse story hear.
Discourse and talk awake does keep
The rude unquiet pain,
That in my Brest does raign;
Silence perhaps may make it sleep:
I'll bind that Sore up, I did ill reveal;
The Wound, if once it Close, may chance to Heal.

3.

No, 'twill nere heal; my Love will never dye,
Though it should Speechlesse lye.
A River, ere it meet the Sea,
As well might stay its source,
As my Love can his course,
Unlesse it joyne and mix with Thee.
If any end or stop of it be found,
We know the Flood runs still, though under-Ground.





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