The Silent Lover i

Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh 1554–1618

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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  1. jeremy United States

    you only have half of the poem displayed here. Why not go the extra mile and get the original verse in its entirety?

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