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Why art thou silent?

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1846Sonnet, Why art thou silentDemonstrated
“and in the sonnet, Why art thou silent. Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air Of absence withers what was once so fair?”
Papers on Literature and Art · in the last published volume of his poems, though probably written many years before
Four lines of Wordsworth's sonnet quoted, a substantial portion of the 14-line poem.

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✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Dialogue, containing sundry Glosses on Poetic Texts

“Dialogue, containing sundry Glosses on Poetic Texts”

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“And that we should not find in him traces of the sort of wound, nor the tone of deep human melancholy that we find in this Complaint, and in the sonnet, " Why art thou silent." A.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p168

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p168; page given is to the 1869 reprint.