Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 1 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Silent Lover I

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.

— Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618   


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