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Mobile Photography – Saturday Poetry – “The Silent Lover” by Walter Raleigh

I am introducing a new section, simply titled, Saturday Poetry. Each Saturday I will publish a poem and I will also try to link a mobile photography image, that has been uploaded to our Instagram hashtag #theappwhisperer.

Today I am publising “The Silent Lover” by Walter Raleigh. To be in love and to say nothing about it – this seems to me the most elegant (and perhaps the only sensible) form of romantic attachment. Walter Raleigh’s “The Silent Lover” keeps its own counsel, eloquently.

Source:
The Oxford Book of English Verse.
Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1919. 102-103.

I have matched @carolynoneillphoto‘s image “I have loved you for a thousand years…” with this poem. You can follow her on Instagram here and you can learn more about her work here.

To view the others we have published in this section, go here.

I

Passions are likened best to floods and streams:

The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;

So, when affections yield 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.

 

II

Wrong not, sweet empress of my heart,

The merit of true passion,

With thinking that he feels no smart,

That sues for no compassion;

 

Since, if my plaints serve not to approve

The conquest of thy beauty,

It comes not from defect of love,

But from excess of duty.

 

For, knowing that I sue to serve

A saint of such perfection,

As all desire, but none deserve,

A place in her affection,

 

I rather choose to want relief

Than venture the revealing;

Where glory recommends the grief,

Despair distrusts the healing.

 

Thus those desires that aim too high

For any mortal lover,

When reason cannot make them die,

Discretion doth them cover.

 

Yet, when discretion doth bereave

The plaints that they should utter,

Then thy 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,

May challenge double pity.

 

Then wrong not, dearest to my heart,

My true, though secret, passion:

He smarteth most that hides his smart,

And sues for no compassion.

Saturday poetry

“I have loved you for a thousand years” – ©carolynoneillphoto

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