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This blog was prompted by my son (in his twenties) wanting to get more seriously into poetry and asking me to recommend some poems. Where to begin? So this is primarily for him, but I hope other readers might enjoy it too.


Monday 20 February 2012

William Blake

LOVE'S SECRET

by: William Blake (1757-1827)

      EVER seek to tell thy love,
      Love that never told can be;
      For the gentle wind doth move
      Silently, invisibly.

      I told my love, I told my love,
      I told her all my heart,
      Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
      Ah! she did depart!

      Soon after she was gone from me,
      A traveller came by,
      Silently, invisibly:
      He took her with a sigh.

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