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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S SILENT HOUR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: This is love's silent hour, before the tongue
Last Line: By sun or moon, by gas or candle-light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
First Line: This is love's silent hour, before the tongue
Last Line: By sun or moon, by gas or candle-light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
THIS is Love's silent hour, before the tongue
Can find expression happy in a song;
Yet your sweet, generous lips shall have their hour,
Believe me, when my song comes back to power;
So shall those eyes, so dark, so warm, and deep,
That wake for me, and for all others sleep:
Meanwhile I do no more than sit and sigh,
Watching your movements with a greedy eye.
Those birds that sing so sweet in their green bogs,
Their season over, croak like common frogs:
My thoughts, I hoped, would like those nightingales
Sing sweet for you, but still my music fails;
My music fails, and I can only kiss
Your cheek and chin, and to myself say this --
There never was a thing so fair and bright,
By sun or moon, by gas or candle-light.
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