| Poems by Women |
A Love Song
My love it should be silent, being deep --
And being
very peaceful should be still --
Still as the utmost depths of ocean keep
--
Serenely silent as some mighty hill.
Yet is my love so great it needs must fill
With very joy the inmost heart
of me,
The joy of dancing branches on the hill
The joy of leaping waves
upon the sea.
From: Rittenhouse, Jessie B.
The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919).
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