<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384679" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The speech of silence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The solemn Sea of Silence lies between us;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know thou livest, and them lovest me,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet I wish some white ship would come sailing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across the ocean, beating word from thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dead calm awes me with its awful stillness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No anxious doubts or fears disturb my breast;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I only ask some little wave of language,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To stir this vast infinitude of rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am oppressed with this great sense of loving;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So much I give, so much receive from thee;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like subtle incense, rising from a censer,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So floats the fragrance of thy love round me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All speech is poor, and written words unmeaning;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet such I ask, blown hither by some wind,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To give relief to this too perfect knowledge,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Silence so impresses on my mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How poor the love that needeth word or message,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To banish doubt or nourish tenderness!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ask them but to temper love's convictions</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Silence all too fully doth express.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too deep the language which the spirit utters;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too vast the knowledge which my soul hath stirred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Send some white ship across the Sea of Silence,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And interrupt its utterance with a word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384679" data-title="The speech of silence de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="The solemn Sea of Silence lies between us; I know thou livest, and them lovest me, And yet I wish some white ship would come sailing Across the ocean, beating word from thee. The dead calm awes me with its awful stillness. No anxious doubts o..."></div> </div> </div>

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