Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INCOHERENCE, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON


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First Line: We that are swift with words
Last Line: Is trembling more than mine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Language; Silence; Words; Vocabulary


WE that are swift with words
Keep silence now...
Teach me the speech of birds,
Or tell me how
Leaves talk in unstirred light,
Or streams make murmuring,
Or at what greyest height
The slow rain learns to sing.

These have one simple way
Of saying all...
Why on our sudden day
Must silence fall?
Quiet—quiet you stand,
And give no sound nor sign
But this—your outstretched hand
Is trembling more than mine!





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