How Does The Poet Speak To Men

As The Swiss Inscription Says: Sprechen Ist Silbern, Schweigen Ist Golden,- "speech Is Silvern, Silence Is Golden;" Or, As I Might Rather Express It, Speech Is Of Time, Silence Is Of Eternity.

I Came To Feel How Far Above All Fancy, Pride, And Fickle Maidenhood, All Earthly Pleasure, All Imagined Good, Was The Warm Tremble Of A Devout Kiss.

What Is There In Thee, Moon! That Thou Should'st Move My Heart So Potently?

She Hurried At His Words, Beset With Fears, For There Were Sleeping Dragons All Around.

On A Lone Winter Evening, When The Frost Has Wrought A Silence.