The Voiceless; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
'Tis but a Little Faded Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12.
Variant: The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
Source: Macbeth
“A thing which fades
With no outward sign—
Is the flower
Of the heart of man
In this world!”
trans. Arthur Waley, p. 78
Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 542.
The Indian Serenade (1819), st. 3
“Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.”
“O heart, be at peace, because
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause”
Against Unworthy Praise http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1433/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Context: p>O heart, be at peace, because
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause
Being for a woman's sake.
Enough if the work has seemed,
So did she your strength renew,
A dream that a lion had dreamed
Till the wilderness cried aloud,
A secret between you two,
Between the proud and the proud.What, still you would have their praise!
But here's a haughtier text,
The labyrinth of her days
That her own strangeness perplexed;
And how what her dreaming gave
Earned slander, ingratitude,
From self-same dolt and knave;
Aye, and worse wrong than these.
Yet she, singing upon her road,
Half lion, half child, is at peace.</p
