I told her I loved her and begged but a word, <br />One dear little word, that would be <br />For me by all odds the most sweet ever heard, <br />But never a word said she! <br /> <br />I raged at her then, and I said she was cold; <br />I swore she was nothing to me; <br />I prayed her the cause of her silence unfold, <br />But never a word said she! <br /> <br />I covered with kisses her delicate hand, <br />But she only glanced down where the sea <br />Low murmured in ripples of love on the sand, <br />And never a word said she! <br /> <br />I cast her hand from me with rage unsuppressed, <br />And she turned her blue eyes up to me <br />And smiled as she laid her fair head on my breast; <br />'What need of a word?' asked she.<br /><br />Ellis Parker Butler<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/golden-silence-4/
