Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SILENCE, by GEORGE FRANCIS SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG


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First Line: Love dying set his finger on these lips
Last Line: Sick with a nameless care.


LOVE dying set his finger on these lips,
And froze them into silence. I may sing
Never again the old glad way! O, bring
My heart a little pleasure in eclipse!
When the morn rises, when the white moon dips
Seaward, or when lithe birds are on the wing,
And with clear music radiant woodlands ring,
And all things find relief,
Let not my mouth be dumb and mine eyes blind
And drowsed mine ear amid the earth's delight.
Hard is this burthen of pent woe to bear, --
The dull faint soul that seeks and cannot find
Life's natural joy, worn with a wordless grief,
Sick with a nameless care.





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