Death & Dying

A Lost Voice

by F. W. Bourdillon 1852–1921

From Victorian Songs (1895)

Death & Dying

A thousand voices fill my ears
All day until the light grows pale;
But silence falls when night-time nears,
And where art thou, sweet nightingale?

Was that thine echo, faint and far?
Nay, all is hushed as heaven above;
In earth no voice, in heaven no star,
And in my heart no dream of love.

MLA

Bourdillon, F. W. “A Lost Voice.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bourdillon/2/.

Chicago

Bourdillon, F. W. “A Lost Voice.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bourdillon/2/.

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