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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SILENCE, by JOSEPHINE PRICE SIMRALL
First Line: I sought a word, the perfect word, the one right
Last Line: Encompasses the rest.
Subject(s): Silence; Wellesley College
First Line: I sought a word, the perfect word, the one right
Last Line: Encompasses the rest.
Subject(s): Silence; Wellesley College
I SOUGHT a word, the perfect word, the one right word to say
But words are eerie, fearsome things
For this one pricks and that one stings
The while a third, one witching wings
Flits down the wonder-way.
I sought the one right word to say, but all my search was vain,
For though I spoke and though you heard
The meanings were all dim and blurred
Like shadowy grasses, wind bestirred,
Or waters swept by rain.
And so I put the quest aside: -- the silences are best;
The far lights on the mountain side;
Star shine; pale dawns; spring's blossoming tide;
God's silence, -- which is deep and wide, --
Encompasses the rest.
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