Everyone will have their own subjective response to these words, but for me, they refer to the power of the speaker's loved one to convey emotion through the slightest glance. The lover's eyes are "silent" in that they can express love without any accompanying words. They also embody the silence of death, for which the speaker shows himself ready if his lover should wish it:
or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
Our initial reading appears to be confirmed by the second stanza, where the speaker refers to the ability of his beloved's "slightest look" to unclose him, that is to say, open him up to love in much the same way as a flower is opened up by the spring sunshine. Yet as we've seen, it's the silence of death which can quickly enclose the speaker once more, just as night often closes up the petals of a flower that blooms in the daylight.
https://poets.org/poem/somewhere-i-have-never-travelledgladly-beyond
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