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.
More verses by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Sestina Otiosa
- On Being Challenged To Write An Epigram In The Manner Of Herrick
- Stans Puer Ad Mensam
- A Literature Lesson. Sir Patrick Spens In The Eighteenth Century Manner
- The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd