Say something to me! I've waited so long -- Waited and wondered in vain; Only a sentence would fall like a song Over this listening pain -- Over a silence that glowers and frowns, -- Even my pencil to-night Slips in the dews of my sorrow and wounds Each tender word that I write. Say something to me -- if only to tell Me you remember the past; Let the sweet words, like the notes of a bell, Ring out my vigil at last. O it were better, far better than this Doubt and distrust in the breast, -- For in the wine of a fanciful kiss I could taste Heaven, and -- rest. Say something to me! I kneel and I plead, In my wild need, for a word; If my poor heart from this silence were freed, I could soar up like a bird In the glad morning, and twitter and sing, Carol and warble and cry Blithe as the lark as he cruises awing Over the deeps of the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOWN-HILL ON A BICYCLE by LOUIS UNTERMEYER GEORGE CRABBE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CONSIDER by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE LUTE OBEYS by THOMAS WYATT IDEOGRAM by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY SONNET: 11 by RICHARD BARNFIELD |