Poem by Eleanor Farjeon

Silence

Words and the body always have been much pain to me,
  Little fetters and drags on immensities
  Never to be defined. I am done with these.
Meanings of silence suddenly all grow plain to me.

Something still may sing like a joyous flute in me
  Out of the life that dares to be voiced aloud,
  But speech no more shall swathe like a burial-shroud
Things unencompassable now eloquent-mute in me.

1. Sonnets. 7. When I see two delay their wings at heaven
2. Sonnets. 11. A few of us who faltered as we fared
3. Sonnets. 12. I hear love answer: Since within the mesh
4. Vagrant Songs
5. Sonnets. 9. Love Needs not Two the Render It Complete

Edgar Masters Silence ("I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea")

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