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Love Songs
Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love --
It
answered me with silence,
Silence above.
I asked the darkened sea
Down where the fishers go --
It answered
me with silence,
Silence below.
Oh, I could give him weeping,
Or I could give him song --
But how
can I give silence
My whole life long?
From: Rittenhouse, Jessie B.
The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919).
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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.
Citing poems from these pages:
| Author. "Poem Title." Women's History: Poems by Women. Jone Johnson Lewis, editor. URL: (date of logon) |
