Careful Words

murmur (n.)

murmur (v.)

My banks they are furnish'd with bees,

Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

William Shenstone (1714-1763): A Pastoral. Part ii. Hope.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams:

The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618): The Silent Lover.