Death & Dying
The Silent Voices
From The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems (1892)
Death & Dying
WHEN the dumb Hour, clothed in black,
Brings the Dreams about my bed,
Call me not so often back,
Silent Voices of the dead,
Toward the lowland ways behind me,
And the sunlight that is gone!
Call me rather, silent voices,
Forward to the starry track
Glimmering up the heights beyond me
On, and always on!
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MLA
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “The Silent Voices.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/459/.
Chicago
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “The Silent Voices.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/459/.
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