Poem: Silentium Amoris

As often-times the too resplendent sun

Hurries the pallid and reluctant moon

Back to her sombre cave, ere she hath won

上海龙凤shlf最新地址A single ballad from the nightingale,

上海龙凤shlf最新地址So doth thy Beauty make my lips to fail,

上海龙凤shlf最新地址And all my sweetest singing out of tune.

上海龙凤shlf最新地址And as at dawn across the level mead

On wings impetuous some wind will come,

上海龙凤shlf最新地址And with its too harsh kisses break the reed

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Which was its only instrument of song,

上海龙凤shlf最新地址So my too stormy passions work me wrong,

上海龙凤shlf最新地址And for excess of Love my Love is dumb.

But surely unto Thee mine eyes did show

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Why I am silent, and my lute unstrung;

Else it were better we should part, and go,

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Thou to some lips of sweeter melody,

And I to nurse the barren memory

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Of unkissed kisses, and songs never sung.