Mar 19 2005
Silentium Amoris (The Silence of Love)
Silentium Amoris (The Silence of Love)
Oscar Wilde
As oftentimes the too resplendent sun
Hurries the pallid and reluctant moon
Back to her sombre cave, ere she hath won
A single ballad from the nightingale,
So doth thy Beauty make my lips to fail,
And all my sweetest singing out of tune.
And as at dawn across the level mead
On wings impetuous some wind will come,
And with its too harsh kisses break the reed
Which was its only instrument of song,
So my too stormy passions work me wrong,
And for excess of Love my Love is dumb.
But surely unto Thee mine eyes did show
Why I am silent, and my lute unstrung;
Else it were better we should part, and go,
Thou to some lips of sweeter melody,
And I to nurse the barren memory
Of unkissed kisses, and songs never sung.
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i can write better than that
You\’re full of it. This man was a genius. Judging by your fantastic argument, with examples to back it up, naturally, I\’m SO sure you can write better than Wilde. That\’s why you\’re so rich and famous, right? You simply lack the capacity to appreciate and understand something of such beauty and grandeur.
Wow beautiful literature, he must\\\’ve been a genius, in the poem it sounds like he\\\’s breaking up with a girl, but he makes it sound so beautiful!
Somebody sure knows their oscar wilde.
This is such a Beautiful poem, I have it written in my diary