A GIFT of Silence, sweet! Who may not ever hear: To lay down at your unobservant feet, Is all the gift I bear. I have no songs to sing, That you should heed or know: I have no lilies, in full hands, to fling Across the path you go. I cast my flowers away, Blossoms unmeet for you! The garland I have gathered in my day: My rosemary and rue. I watch you pass and pass, Serene and cold: I lay My lips upon your trodden, daisied grass, And turn my life away. Yea, for I cast you, sweet! This one gift, you shall take: Like ointment, on your unobservant feet My silence, for your sake. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HENDECASYLLABICS by ALFRED TENNYSON PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 11. AL-MUTAKABBIR by EDWIN ARNOLD A CHARACTER OF JOHN MORT by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE ASSUMPTION by JOHN BEAUMONT THE SHEEPHERD by JOSEPH BEAUMONT THE COMING HUNS by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV |