Living
Silence
Living
'T is better to sit here beside the sea,
Here on the spray-kissed beach,
In silence, that between such friends as we
Is full of deepest speech.
Cite this poem
MLA
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. “Silence.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paul-laurence-dunbar/252/.
Chicago
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. “Silence.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/paul-laurence-dunbar/252/.
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