Silence (Dunbar)

For works with similar titles, see Silence.

Silence by Paul Laurence Dunbar

In the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

                 SILENCE

'T is better to sit here beside the sea,
Here on the spray-kissed beach,
In silence, that between such friends as we
Is full of deepest speech.

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.