Sonnet

While searching for interesting sonnets I only found ones written by Shakespeare... Well he is not my favorite author and I do not often enjoy his writing so while looking at others blogs for authors I find more enjoyable to read I found sonnets written by Edgar Allan Poe (courtesy of Joshua Ng and Ubi Kim)

Silence

There are some qualities--some incorporate things,

That have a double life, which thus is made

A type of that twin entity which springs

From matter and light, evenced in solid and shade.

There is a two-fold Silence--sea and shore--

Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places,

Newly with grass o'ergrown; some solemn graces,

Some human memories and tearful lore,

Render him terrorless: his name's "No More."

He is the corporate Silence: dread him not!

No power hath he of evil in himself;

But should some urgent fate (untimely lot!)

Bring thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf,

That haunteth the lone regions where hath trod

No foot of man) commend thyself to God!