 Discretion may perceive That Silence is a suitor. Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty ; A beggar that is dumb, you know, Deserveth double pity? ! Then misconceive not, dearest heart ! My true, though secret, passion ; He...  Miscellaneous works - Page 717by Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - British Guiana - 1751 - 418 pages
...muft cover. , Yet when Difcretion doth bereave The Plaints that I fhou'd utter, Then your Difcretion may perceive That Silence is a Suitor. Silence in Love bewrays more Woe Than Words, tho* ne'er fo witty ; A Beggar that is dumb you know, May challenge double Pity. Then wrong not, deareft... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...affection. Where glory recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing. Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty ; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Then wrong not, dearest to my heart, My love for secret passion ; He smarteth... | |
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...revealing: Where glory recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing. Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Then wrong not, dearest to my heart! My love for secret passion; He smarteth... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...glory recommends the grie^ Despair disdains th^ fo^iifttt i ..-•''i *tj * Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty ; A beggar that is dumb, you know. May challenge double pity* Then wrong not, dearest to my heart, My love for secret passion ; He smarteth... | |
 | John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 508 pages
...make them die, Discretion them must cover, Yet when discretion doth bereave The plaints that I could utter, Then your discretion may perceive That silence...ne'er so witty ; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Then wrong not, dearest to my heart, My love for secret passion : He smarteth... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...make them die, Discretion them must cover, Yet when discretion doth bereave The plaints that I could utter, Then your discretion may perceive That silence...bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty ; Then wrong not, dearest to my heart, My love for secret passion : He smarteth most that hides his... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...make them die, Discretion them must cover, Yet when discretion doth bereave The plaints that I could utter, Then your discretion may perceive That silence is a suitor. Silence in love bewrays more woe Thau words, though ne'er so witty ; Then wrong not, dearest to my heart, My love .for secret passion... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...affection ; Where glory recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing. Silence in love betrays more wo Than words though ne'er so witty ; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Then wrong not, dearest to my heart, My love for secret passion ; He smarteth... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...the revealing: Where glory recommends the grief Despair disdain* the healing. Silence in love betrays more woe Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Then wrong not, dearest to my heart, My love for secret passion ; He smarteth... | |
 | Cupid - 1826 - 252 pages
...cannot make them die, Discretion then must cover. Yet when discretion doth bereave The plaints that I should utter, Then your discretion may perceive That...ne'er so witty ; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Then wrong not, dearest of my heart, My love for secret passion ; • He... | |
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