Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 

 

 SONGS OF THE SILENT WORLD 

 AND OTHER POEMS 

 

 BY 

 ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS 

 

 BOSTON HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1885 

 

 Copyright, 1884, BY ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge:  Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. 

 

 Dear! Is the distance vast? I cross it here. The chasm fathomless? I span it thus. The silence dread? I break it. What is fear? When only our own hearts can sever us. 

 The gold and frankincense I should have given, Envy the myrrh I lay within your hand; Dearer to me than fame of earth or heaven It is, to know that you will understand. 

 

 CONTENTS. 

 

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 Afterward Released The Room's Width The First Christmas Apart The Angel Joy "Absent!" The Unseen Comrades Stronger than Death 

 

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