Nature

Dumb

by Mary E. Coleridge 1861–1907

From Poems (1908)

Nature

"A voice! A voice!" I cried. No music stills
The craving heart that would an answer find;
No song of birds, no murmuring of the wind,
No — not that awful harmony of mind,
The silent stars, above the silent hills.

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Coleridge, Mary E. “Dumb.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/68/.

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Coleridge, Mary E. “Dumb.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/68/.

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