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Loves Secret

- William Blake -

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does 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 as she was gone from me,
A traveler came by,
Silently, invisibly
He took her with a sigh.

— Blake is speaking clear english in this piece which is rare. He is saying that love can not be created with words. If it is to be, then it happens. No amount of briliance or language usage can suffice for God’s will.

More deeply he is showing the tragedy in the disillusionment that comes from being turned down or rejected by someone you think the world of. All his efforts to express his deepest feelings and his worship for this person was not enough.

The most tragic and punctuating part is the end which says despite his pain sorrow and best efforts to express his deepest love, he is not only rejected, but his lady settles for someone who doesn’t have much care for her at all.

This is a piece about the inability of man to create love and the irrelevence language has if it has no object. Language is only as beautiful as reality, and it is as tragic as reality too. The wisdom one can take from this is that we should not forget that language only expresses what is already there - it doesn’t create what one wishes to experience.

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