Frances Shaw. Silent Ones. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Silent Ones

By Frances Shaw


I LIKE silent people.
I like to hear them speak,
Because their voices come from the silences
Of their own souls.
I seem to hear the sound	5
Of windless forests
And of still waters,
Which wrapt the earth before the day of man.
They know not, however, what they speak;
But I, who dwell in the roar of many streets—	10
I who listen, hear.