Never seek to tell they love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears -
Ah, she doth depart!
Soon as she was gone from me,
A traveller came by
Silently, invisibly -
He took her with a sigh.
(William Blake)
Archive for October, 2008
Never Seek To Tell Thy Love
Posted in Poetry, William Blake on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Time Does Not Bring Relief
Posted in Edna St Vincent Millay, Poetry on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on [...]
“Funeral Blues” (from Two Songs for Hedli Anderson)
Posted in Poetry, W H Auden on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear [...]
from Adonais
Posted in Poetry, Shelley on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Peace, peace he is not dead, he doth but sleep -
He hath awakened from the dream of life -
‘Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit’s knife
Invulnerable nothings. – We decay
Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by [...]
