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Poem by Thomas Hood


Silence


     Sonnet

There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave — under the deep, deep sea,
Or in wide desert where no life is found,

Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound;
No voice is hush’d — no life treads silently,
But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free,
That never spoke, over the idle ground:

But in green ruins, in the desolate walls
Of antique palaces, where Man hath been,
Though the dun fox or wild hyæna calls,
And owls, that flit continually between,

Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan —
There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone.



Thomas Hood


Thomas Hood's other poems:
  1. The Two Peacocks of Bedfont
  2. Song (The stars are with the voyager)
  3. Written in Keats' “Endymion”
  4. The Departure of Summer
  5. To My Daughter on Her Birthday


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Henry King, Bishop of Chichester Silence ("Peace my hearts blab, be ever dumb")
  • Eleanor Farjeon Silence ("Words and the body always have been much pain to me")
  • Edgar Poe Silence ("There are some qualities—some incorporate things")
  • Helen Cone Silence ("Why should I sing of earth or heaven? not rather rest")
  • Edgar Masters Silence ("I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea")

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