Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude. Where the flower in green darkness buds, blossoms, and fades, Unseen of all shepherds and flower-loving maids– The hermit bees find them but once and away. There I'll bury alive and in silence decay. John Clare
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The hermit bees find them but once and away. It is a poem about the loneliness and solitude of a hermit. The author of the poem, Simone de Beauvoir, was a French novelist and feminist. The world is filled with noise and crowds.

When we are alone we hear only nature and silence. Some people choose to live in nature or close to nature, like a hermit. That's what the author is trying to say in this poem.

Source: Poems Chiefly From Manuscript

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