 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...  The Parliamentary Debates - Page 553by Great Britain. Parliament - 1906Full view - About this book
 | 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
...bereave The plaints that I could utter, Then your discretion may perceive That silence is a suitor. . . Silence in lo've 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 love for secret passion : He smarteth... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...bereave The plaints that I could utter, Then your discretion may perceive That silence is a suitor, Silence in love 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... | |
 | 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
...bereave The plaints that I should utter, Then your 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 of my heart, My love for secret passion ; • He... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...bereave The plaints that they should utter, Then your 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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Explorers - 1830 - 522 pages
...genius. The mind which unfolds * Oxf. ed. Ral. Works, viii. 775, note. The stanza runs thus : — ^ Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty, A beggar that is dumb, you know, Deserveth double pity. . itself in his finished works, is also displayed) forcible, elegant, and imaginative,... | |
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