What; gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and Thou
Three brethren named, the guardians gloomywinged,
Of one abyss, where life and truth and joy
Are swallowed up.
Shelley—Fragments. Silence.
Shallow brookes murmur moste, deepe silent
slide away.
Sib Philip Sidney—The Arcadia. Thirsts
andDorus.
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| text = Macaulay is like a book in breeches * * *
He has occasional flashes of silence, that make
his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sydney Smith—Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol.
I. P. 363.
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| num = 5
| text = Le silence du peuple est la lecon des rois.
The silence of the people is a lesson for kings.
Soanen, Bishop of Senax; also Abbe de
Beauvais—Funeral oration over Louis XV.
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
Sophocles—Ajax. 293.
To me so deep a silence portends some dread
event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
Sophocles—Antigone. 1251.
The deepest rivers make least din,
The silent soule doth most abound in care.
Eabl of Stirling—Aurora. (1604) Song.
But let me silent be :
For silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.
R. H. Stoddard—Speech of Love. St. 4.
Of every noble work the silent part is best,
Of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
W. W. Story—The Unexpressed.
Silence, beautiful voice.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Maud. Pt. V.
St. 3.
And / too talk, and lose the touch
I talk of. Surely, after all,
The noblest answer unto such
Is kindly silence when they brawl.
| author = Tennyson
| work = The After Thought. In Punch,
March 7, 1816. (Altered in the published
Eoems to: "Is perfect stillness when they
rawl.
