Sir Walter Raleigh
Love, Farewell, and Reply
Silent lovers, false love, nymphs, replies, and Raleigh's bitter courtly love poems.
The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd
If all the world and love were young,
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And truth in every Shepherd's tongue,
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These pretty pleasur
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Her Reply
If all the world and love were young,
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And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
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These pretty pleasur
Sir Walter Raleigh
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The Silent Lover (I)
Passions are liken’d best to floods and streams:
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The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
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So,
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A Farewell To False Love
Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies,
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A mortal foe and enemy to rest,
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An envious boy, from w
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Farewell To The Court
Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expir’d,
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And past return are all my dandled days;
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My love
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Prais’d Be Diana’s Fair And Harmless Light
Prais’d be Diana’s fair and harmless light;
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Prais’d be the dews wherewith she moists the ground; /
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The Silent Lover (II)
Wrong not, sweet empress of my heart,
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The merit of true passion,
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With thinking that he feels no
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To His Love When He Had Obtained Her
Now Serena be not coy,
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Since we freely may enjoy
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Sweet embraces, such delights,
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As will shorte
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