Poems on the topic: silence

Poems on the topic “silence” on Poets.by.

ContemplativeEmily Dickinson

To tell the Beauty would decrease

To tell the Beauty would decrease To state the Spell demean -- There is a syllable-less Sea Of which it is the sign -- My will endeavors for its word And fails, but entertains A Rapture as of Legacies -- Of introspective Mines --
SadEmily Dickinson

A great Hope fell

A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And let no Witness in The mind was built for mighty Freight For dread occasion planned How often foundering at Sea Ostensibly, on Land A not admitting of the wound Until it grew so wide That all my Life had entered it And there were troughs beside A closing of the simple lid That opened to the sun Until the tender Carpenter
DreamyEmily Dickinson

Great Streets of silence led away

Great Streets of silence led away To Neighborhoods of Pause -- Here was no Notice -- no Dissent No Universe -- no laws -- By Clocks, 'twas Morning, and for Night The Bells at Distance called -- But Epoch had no basis here For Period exhaled.
ContemplativeEmily Dickinson

They shut me up in Prose --

They shut me up in Prose -- As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet -- Because they liked me "still" -- Still! Could themself have peeped -- And seen my Brain -- go round -- They might as wise have lodged a Bird For Treason -- in the Pound -- Himself has but to will And easy as a Star Abolish his Captivity -- And laugh -- No more have I --
ContemplativeEmily Dickinson

Declaiming Waters none may dread --

Declaiming Waters none may dread -- But Waters that are still Are so for that most fatal cause In Nature -- they are full --
ContemplativeEmily Dickinson

Prayer is the little implement

Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence -- is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it -- in God's Ear -- If then He hear -- This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer --
ContemplativeEmily Dickinson

Not One by Heaven defrauded stay --

Not One by Heaven defrauded stay -- Although he seem to steal He restitutes in some sweet way Secreted in his will --
ContemplativeEmily Dickinson

The Leaves like Women interchange

The Leaves like Women interchange Exclusive Confidence -- Somewhat of nods and somewhat Portentous inference. The Parties in both cases Enjoining secrecy -- Inviolable compact To notoriety.
ContemplativeEmily Dickinson

If I should cease to bring a Rose

If I should cease to bring a Rose Upon a festal day, 'Twill be because beyond the Rose I have been called away -- If I should cease to take the names My buds commemorate -- 'Twill be because Death's finger Claps my murmuring lip!
ContemplativeEmily Dickinson

Nature and God -- I neither knew

Nature and God -- I neither knew Yet Both so well knew me They startled, like Executors Of My identity. Yet Neither told -- that I could learn -- My Secret as secure As Herschel's private interest Or Mercury's affair --
ContemplativeEmily Dickinson

Snow beneath whose chilly softness

Snow beneath whose chilly softness Some that never lay Make their first Repose this Winter I admonish Thee Blanket Wealthier the Neighbor We so new bestow Than thine acclimated Creature Wilt Thou, Austere Snow?
ContemplativeEmily Dickinson

The Veins of other Flowers

The Veins of other Flowers The Scarlet Flowers are Till Nature leisure has for Terms As "Branch," and "Jugular." We pass, and she abides. We conjugate Her Skill While She creates and federates Without a syllable.

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