The Silent Lover I

Sir Walter Raleigh

PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
They that are rich in words, in words discover
That they are poor in that which makes a lover. 

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• Sir Walter Raleigh : What Is Our Life
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• Sir Walter Raleigh : The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd
• Sir Walter Raleigh : The Lie
• Sir Walter Raleigh : The Conclusion
• Sir Walter Raleigh : The Artist
• Sir Walter Raleigh : Stans Puer Ad Mensam
• Sir Walter Raleigh : Song Of Myself
• Sir Walter Raleigh : Sestina Otiosa
• Sir Walter Raleigh : Prais'd Be Diana's Fair And Harmless Light
• Sir Walter Raleigh : On Being Challenged To Write An Epigram In The Manner Of Herrick