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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WE ARE GROWN STILL, by KATHERINE HAYNES GATCH
First Line: We are grown still now we have come to love
Last Line: From things that unexpressed would give no peace.
Subject(s): Love; Wellesley College
First Line: We are grown still now we have come to love
Last Line: From things that unexpressed would give no peace.
Subject(s): Love; Wellesley College
WE are grown still now we have come to love.
Joy finds us dumb, and in new grief, bereft
Of words, we weep in silence as we stand above
The dead and think of things forever left
Unsaid. But this, love's silence, transcends speech.
It is a freer thing than utterance.
More height than spires can have is in its reach.
More joyous music than in fugue or dance
Is in its soundlessness. We never knew
What beauty was until the unseen thought
Of love came in upon us and we drew
Our breath in wonder at the thing it wrought --
Infinite freedom from all words; release
From things that unexpressed would give no peace.
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