Love’s Secret

Pablo Picasso "The Lovers"

Listen to:

Love’s Secret (:47)

by William Blake 

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

Never seek to tell thy love,   

  Love that never told can be;   

For the gentle wind doth move   

  Silently, invisibly.   

  

I told my love, I told my love,

  I told her all my heart,   

Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.   

  Ah! she did depart!   

  

Soon after she was gone from me,   

  A traveller came by,

Silently, invisibly:   

  He took her with a sigh.