The poem
Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, - The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms 'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass. All round our nest, far as the eye can pass, Are golden kingcup-fields with silver edge Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge. 'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: - So this wing'd hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.
This poem is actually by Dante Gabriel Rossetto, and he was male!!! Chritina Rossetti is amazing, but she did NOT write this. Please someone amend this! Rebecca.
Silent Noon was NOT written by Christina Rossetti. It was written by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Someone needs to check that his or her information is correct before posting it on a poetry website.
Christina Rossetti did not write that poem, it was by her brother Dante Gabriel!
I must object to your posting! It is most certainly false information. Somene was sloppy on their research! Naughty. Naughty. The true author of this poem is Dante Gabriel Rossetti, her brother. Some family feud this would make!
The sonnet, "Silent Noon" is sonnet 19 in the very lengthy sonnet cycle, "The House of Life", written by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, brother of Christina. Check the Norton Anthology of Poetry if you doubt my word.