sighless

Instead of Hemans' address to the dead--"I stood beside thy lowly grave"--or Landon's address to the world in the dead poet's voice--"Bring flowers to crown the cup and lute"--Barrett addresses the elegist: Thou bay-crown'd living one--who o'er The bay-crown'd dead art bowing, And o'er the shadeless, moveless brow Thy human shadow throwing; And o'er the sighless, songless lips The wall and music wedding-- Dropping o'er the tranquil eyes Tears not of their shedding.