Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are… — Sir Walter Raleigh
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
1618
★ 3.6Provenance
Current citation
Raleigh, Walter. "Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen." The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.
Original citation
Raleigh, Walter. Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen. London, 1655, I. 1.