English Poetry. Eleanor Farjeon. Silence. Элинор Фарджон.

Eleanor Farjeon (Элинор Фарджон)

Silence

Words and the body always have been much pain to me,
  Little fetters and drags on immensities
  Never to be defined. I am done with these.
Meanings of silence suddenly all grow plain to me.

Something still may sing like a joyous flute in me
  Out of the life that dares to be voiced aloud,
  But speech no more shall swathe like a burial-shroud
Things unencompassable now eloquent-mute in me.

Eleanor Farjeon’s other poems:

1. Sonnets. 7. When I see two delay their wings at heaven
2. Sonnets. 12. I hear love answer: Since within the mesh
3. Sonnets. 8. Wilt thou put seals on love because men say
4. Sonnets. 3. Once, Love, be prodigal, nor look hereafter
5. Sonnets. 2. O Spare Me from the Hand of Niggard Love

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Silence (“There is a silence where hath been no sound”)

Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (Генри Кинг, епископ Чичестерский) Silence (“Peace my hearts blab, be ever dumb”)

Edgar Poe (Эдгар По) Silence (“There are some qualities—some incorporate things”)

Helen Cone (Хелен Коун) Silence (“Why should I sing of earth or heaven? not rather rest”)

Edgar Masters (Эдгар Мастерс) Silence (“I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea”)

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