Thomas Hood Silence Poems

• 1. The Sea Of Death
  â??â??Methought I saw
  Life swiftly treading over endless space;
  And, at her foot-print, but a bygone pace,
  The ocean-past, which, with increasing wave,
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• 2. The Two Peacocks Of Bedfont
  I
  
  Alas! That breathing Vanity should go
  Where Pride is buried,â??like its very ghost,
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• 3. Lycus The Centaur
  FROM AN UNROLLED MANUSCRIPT OF APOLLONIUS CURIUS
  
  
  (The Argument: Lycus, detained by Circe in her magical dominion, is beloved by a Water Nymph, who, desiring to render him immortal, has recourse to the Sorceress. Circe gives her an incantation to pronounce, which should turn Lycus into a horse; but the horrible effect of the charm causing her to break off in the midst, he becomes a Centaur).
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• 4. The Plea Of The Midsummer Fairies
  I
  
  'Twas in that mellow season of the year
  When the hot sun singes the yellow leaves
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• 5. Sonnet -written In Keats
  I saw pale Dian, sitting by the brink
  Of silver falls, the overflow of fountains
  From cloudy steeps; and I grew sad to think
  Endymion's foot was silent on those mountains.
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• 6. To A Sleeping Child
  I
  
  Oh, 'tis a touching thing, to make one weep,â??
  A tender infant with its curtain'd eye,
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• 7. Ode To Autumn
  I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
  Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
  To silence, for no lonely bird would sing
  Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,
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• 8. Silence
  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,
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• 9. Autumn
  I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
  Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
  To silence, for no lonely bird would sing
  Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,
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