Dr Iain McGilchrist | Daily Poetry Readings #285: A Silent Love by Sir Edward Dyer read by Dr Iain McGilchrist @DrIainMcGilchrist | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
Part 285 of a daily series of readings of his favourite poetry by Dr Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary. Today's poem is A Silent Love by Sir Edward Dyer.

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~ A Silent Love by Sir Edward Dyer ~

The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall,
The fly her spleen, the little spark his heat;
And slender hairs cast shadows, though but small,
And bees have stings, although they be not great.
Seas have their source, and so have shallow springs,
And love is love, in beggars and in kings.

Where waters smoothest run, there deepest are the fords,
The dial stirs, yet none perceives it move;
The firmest faith is found in fewest words,
The turtles do not sing, and yet they love;
True hearts have ears and eyes, no tongues to speak;
They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.