Search：Sir Walter Raleigh
WRONG not, sweet empress of my heart
The speaker asks his lady not to assume that a lover who sues for no compassion feels no pain, argues that silence in love shows more woe than witty speech, and returns to the opening plea.
His Pilgrimage
The speaker outfits himself with emblematic pilgrim's gear—scallop-shell, staff, scrip, bottle and gown—and imagines his soul travelling over silver mountains to nectar fountains where its thirst ends.
Her Reply
A reply tests the shepherd’s promises against decay and false speech, yet leaves a wistful conditional opening if youth and love could last.
PASSIONS are liken’d best to floods and streams
A six-line epigram likens passions to water, holding that shallow streams murmur while deep ones are silent, and concludes that those rich in words are poor in what makes a lover.
The Conclusion
Eight lines describe Time as a trustee that takes youth and joy and repays only earth and dust, then turn in the closing couplet to the speaker's trust that God will raise him from that dust.