The Silence of Love (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Silence of Love

I may not love thee -yet perchance I may. When from the body death has loosed the soul. Nature hath crowned thee with her fairest crown. When with closed eyes I strive to paint thy face. The mists rise upward from the Ocean's breast. From many a fount on distant moor or fell.

What if a storm in some lone mountain height? Well may the river bless the surging flood. Sometimes in dreams I clasp thy breast to mine. By love must be mastered, fire by fire.

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Excerpt from The Silence of Love

To Oxford.

"Queen of romance!" whose charm hath witched away
The numbing spell that held my life in thrall,
Is it net meet that on this vernal day
These wafted blossoms at thy feet should fall?
Absence from thee was winter to my heart:
Leafless I stood 'neath leaden frosty skies:
Bleak were the winds that blew my boughs apart:
And still the sap delayed and could not rise.
But thy dear presence is perennial spring:
And, to thy side restored, from every root
I feel the rising life-stream throb and sting
And tingle into leaf and flower and fruit.
So, since thy love begot them, do not scorn
To wear these tokens of a life re-born.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.