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"Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant" (sonnet; Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, 1835)
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) · sonnet; Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, 1835
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Documented 1835–1846
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“Wordsworth, / "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? ...”
Fuller, Margaret. "Poems, Others." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.
“and in the sonnet, 'Why art thou silent.' [...] It is in the last published volume of his poems, though probably written many years before. "Why art thou silent!”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
identifies it as 'in the last published volume of his poems, though probably written many years before.' Wordsworth's last collection prior to 1846 was Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years (1842).