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When some beloved voice, that was to you Both sound and sweetness, failed suddenly, And silence against which you dare not cry, Aches round you like a strong disease and new— What hope, what help, what music will undo That silence to your sense.
When some beloved voice, that was to you Both sound and sweetness, failed suddenly, And silence against which you dare not cry, Aches round you like a strong disease and new— What hope, what help, what music will undo That silence to your sense.
Approximate author period: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 539 · printed citation: Elizabeth Barrett Browning · subject: SILENCE
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