To His Love When He Had Obtained Her by Sir Walter Raleigh
To His Love When He Had Obtained Her by Sir Walter Raleigh Now Serena be not coy, Since we freely may enjoy Sweet embraces, such delights, As will shorten tedious nights. Think that beauty will not stay With you always, but away, And that tyrannizing face That now holds such perfect grace Will both changed […]
To a Lady with an Unruly and Ill-mannered Dog Who Bit several Persons of Importance by Sir Walter Raleigh
To a Lady with an Unruly and Ill-mannered Dog Who Bit several Persons of Importance by Sir Walter Raleigh Your dog is not a dog of grace; He does not wag the tail or beg; He bit Miss Dickson in the face; He bit a Bailie in the leg. What tragic choices such a dog […]
The Silent Lover ii by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Silent Lover ii by Sir Walter Raleigh WRONG not, sweet empress of my heart, The merit of true passion, With thinking that he feels no smart, That sues for no compassion. Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne’er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. […]
The Silent Lover i by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Silent Lover i by Sir Walter Raleigh PASSIONS are liken’d best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which […]
The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd’s tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold When rivers rage and rocks grow cold, And Philomel […]
The Lie by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Lie by Sir Walter Raleigh Go, Soul, the body’s guest, Upon a thankless errand; Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it […]
The Conclusion by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Conclusion by Sir Walter Raleigh EVEN such is Time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander’d all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, […]
The Artist by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Artist by Sir Walter Raleigh The Artist and his Luckless Wife They lead a horrid haunted life, Surrounded by the things he’s made That are not wanted by the trade. The world is very fair to see; The Artist will not let it be; He fiddles with the works of God, And makes them […]
Stans Puer ad Mensam by Sir Walter Raleigh
Stans Puer ad Mensam by Sir Walter Raleigh Attend my words, my gentle knave, And you shall learn from me How boys at dinner may behave With due propriety. Guard well your hands: two things have been Unfitly used by some; The trencher for a tambourine, The table for a drum. We could not lead […]
Song of Myself by Sir Walter Raleigh
Song of Myself by Sir Walter Raleigh I was a Poet! But I did not know it, Neither did my Mother, Nor my Sister nor my Brother. The Rich were not aware of it; The Poor took no care of it. The Reverend Mr. Drewitt Never knew it. The High did not suspect it; The […]
Sestina Otiosa by Sir Walter Raleigh
Sestina Otiosa by Sir Walter Raleigh Our great work, the Otia Merseiana, Edited by learned Mister Sampson, And supported by Professor Woodward, Is financed by numerous Bogus Meetings Hastily convened by Kuno Meyer To impose upon the Man of Business. All in vain! The accomplished Man of Business Disapproves of Otia Merseiana, Turns his back […]
Now What Is Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
Now What Is Love by Sir Walter Raleigh Now what is Love, I pray thee, tell? It is that fountain and that well Where pleasure and repentance dwell; It is, perhaps, the sauncing bell That tolls all into heaven or hell; And this is Love, as I hear tell. Yet what is Love, I prithee, […]
On Being Challenged to Write an Epigram in the Manner of Herrick by Sir Walter Raleigh
On Being Challenged to Write an Epigram in the Manner of Herrick by Sir Walter Raleigh To Griggs, that learned man, in many a bygone session, His kids were his delight, and physics his profession; Now Griggs, grown old and glum, and less intent on knowledge, Physics himself at home, and sends his kids to […]
Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk by Sir Walter Raleigh
Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk by Sir Walter Raleigh Nature, that washed her hands in milk, And had forgot to dry them, Instead of earth took snow and silk, At love’s request to try them, If she a mistress could compose To please love’s fancy out of those. Her eyes he would should […]
My Last Will by Sir Walter Raleigh
My Last Will by Sir Walter Raleigh When I am safely laid away, Out of work and out of play, Sheltered by the kindly ground From the world of sight and sound, One or two of those I leave Will remember me and grieve, Thinking how I made them gay By the things I used […]
Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired by Sir Walter Raleigh
Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired by Sir Walter Raleigh Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired, And past return are all my dandled days; My love misled, and fancy quite retired— Of all which passed the sorrow only stays. My lost delights, now clean from sight of land, Have left me […]
Life by Sir Walter Raleigh
Life by Sir Walter Raleigh What is our life? A play of passion, Our mirth the music of division, Our mother’s wombs the tiring-houses be, Where we are dressed for this short comedy. Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is, That sits and marks still who doth act amiss. Our graves that hide us from the […]
His Pilgrimage by Sir Walter Raleigh
His Pilgrimage by Sir Walter Raleigh GIVE me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope’s true gage; And thus I’ll take my pilgrimage. Blood must be my body’s balmer; No other balm will there be given: […]
Her Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh
Her Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd’s tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love. But Time drives flocks from field to fold; When rivers rage and rocks grow cold; And Philomel becometh dumb; The rest […]
Farewell to the Court by Sir Walter Raleigh
Farewell to the Court by Sir Walter Raleigh Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expir’d, And past return are all my dandled days; My love misled, and fancy quite retir’d– Of all which pass’d the sorrow only stays. My lost delights, now clean from sight of land, Have left me all alone in unknown […]
Epitaph by Sir Walter Raleigh
Epitaph by Sir Walter Raleigh Even such is time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and […]
A Literature Lesson. Sir Patrick Spens in the Eighteenth Century Manner by Sir Walter Raleigh
A Literature Lesson. Sir Patrick Spens in the Eighteenth Century Manner by Sir Walter Raleigh VERSE I In a famed town of Caledonia’s land, A prosperous port contiguous to the strand, A monarch feasted in right royal state; But care still dogs the pleasures of the Great, And well his faithful servants could surmise From […]
A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies, A mortal foe and enemy to rest, An envious boy, from whom all cares arise, A bastard vile, a beast with rage possessed, A way of error, a temple full of treason, In all effects contrary unto reason. A […]