Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh

by Sir Walter Raleigh

30 chapters1h 0mEnglish1885

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Sir Walter Raleigh was an English soldier, explorer, writer and courtier in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He helped to found the first English colony in North America at Roanoke. Raleigh's Poetry was written the straightforward, unornamented mode known as the Plain Style. Most of his poems are short lyrics which were inspired by real events. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Chapters (30)

1Walter Rawely of the Middle Temple

131

2The Excuse

117

3An Epitaph upon the Right Honourable Sir Phillip Sidney

353

4A Vision upon this Conceit of the Fairy Queen

5Another of the Same

112

6Marlowe's Song; The Passionate Shepherd to his Love

105

7Raleigh's Reply

112

8Like Hermit Poor

9Farewell to the Court

10The Advice

11In the Grace of Wit, of Tongue, and Face

106

12Fain would I, but I dare not

109

13Sir Walter Raleigh to his Son

14On the Cards and Dice

15The Silent Lover

168

16A Poesy to prove Affection is not Love

145

17The Lie

201

18Sir Walter Raleigh's Pilgrimage

174

19What is our Life? The Play of Passion

20To the Translator of Lucan

21Sir Walter Raleigh's Petition to the Queen (Anne of Denmark)

205

22Sir Walter Raleigh's Verses found in his Bible in the Gate House at Westminster

23Fragments and Epigrams

125

24Fragments and Epitaphs

178

25No Pleasure without Pain

26The Shepherd's Praise of his Sacred Diana

27The Shepherd's Description of Love

103

28As you came from the Holy Land

123

29Shall I, like an Hermit, Dwell

30To his Singular Friend, William Lithgow

Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh

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