(1826-2) The Wish
The Monthly Magazine
Shir Hakovod, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill
(20th March 1824) Metrical Tales. Tale IV.— The Troubadour
The London Literary Gazette, 1824
In Defense of the Earth (1956), She Is Away
Context: Now I know surely and forever,
However much I have blotted our
Waking love, its memory is still
there. And I know the web, the net,
The blind and crippled bird. For then, for
One brief instant it was not blind, nor
Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the
Heart was free and moved itself. O love,
I who am lost and damned with words,
Whose words are a business and an art,
I have no words. These words, this poem, this
Is all confusion and ignorance.
But I know that coached by your sweet heart,
My heart beat one free beat and sent
Through all my flesh the blood of truth.
The face bent over him like silver night
In long-remembered summers; that calm light
Of days which shine in firmaments of thought,
That past unchangeable, from change still wrought.
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
My Heart and Lute.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.”
"Julia" (1968); these lines were adapted from lines of Sand and Foam (1926) by Khalil Gibran: "When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind."
Lyrics
“When your heart has been broken,
Hard words have been spoken.
It ain't easy - but it's only love.”
It's Only Love, performed with Tina Turner
Song lyrics, Reckless (1984)
