Sir Walter Raleigh

1552-1618 / Male / English
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A first path through Sir Walter Raleigh, balancing reader signal, quality labels, registers, and obvious canonical titles.

10 poems
Love, Farewell, and Reply

Silent lovers, false love, nymphs, replies, and Raleigh's bitter courtly love poems.

8 poems
What Is Our LifeWhat is our life? The play of passion. / Our mirth? The music of division: / Our mothers’ wombs the
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The Nymph’s Reply To The ShepherdIf all the world and love were young, / And truth in every Shepherd's tongue, / These pretty pleasur
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Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys ExpiredLike truthless dreams, so are my joys expired, / And past return are all my dandled days; / My love
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Her ReplyIf all the world and love were young, / And truth in every shepherd’s tongue, / These pretty pleasur
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The Passionate Man’s PilgrimageGive me my scallop shell of quiet, / My staff of faith to walk upon, / My scrip of joy, immortal die
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The LieGo, Soul, the body’s guest, / Upon a thankless errand; / Fear not to touch the best; / The truth sha
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The Silent Lover (I)Passions are liken’d best to floods and streams: / The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; / So,
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A Farewell To False LoveFarewell, false love, the oracle of lies, / A mortal foe and enemy to rest, / An envious boy, from w
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His PilgrimageGive me my scallop-shell of quiet, / My staff of faith to walk upon, / My scrip of joy, immortal die
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EpitaphEven such is time, which takes in trust / Our youth, our joys, and all we have, / And pays us but wi
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