QUIETLY as rosebuds
Talk to thin air,
Love came so lightly
I knew not he was there.
Quietly as lovers
Creep at the middle noon,
Softly as players tremble
In the tears of a tune;
Quietly as lilies
Their faint vows declare,
Came the shy pilgrim:
I knew not he was there.
Quietly as tears fall
On a warm sin,
Softly as griefs call
In a violin;
Without hail or tempest,
Blue sword or flame,
Love came so lightly
I knew not that he came.
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Love can often be like that...no huge fireworks or bangs to alert...but quietly slipping in...as if on kitty cat's paws. Neilson speaks so softly to this in this piece.
UB
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Outstanding poet
John Shaw Neilson is one of Australia's greatest poets he composed such beautiful poems yet due to his failing sight in his old age he had to practically give up writing, Neilson lost many of his poems destroyed by mice during a mice plague in the Mallee, this poem 'Love's calling' is a typical Neilson poem so beautifuly written,
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