There is a word past uttering

The only word my tongue would say:

Oh, sweetest, fairest, dearest, best, in silence I must go my way!

Oh, blinded eyes deprived of light;

Oh, hunger that is never fed;

Oh, love that yearns, denied the right

To kiss a tress upon that head;

Oh, broken life, creep far from sight

To hide where pity makes thy bed

For glory, fame, and wealth are stones to me, a beggar craving bread.