Walter Ralegh: Everyman PoetryA selection of Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry, edited by Martin Dodsworth |
Contents
In Commendationof The Steel Glass | 1 |
A Farewell to False Love | 2 |
2a Most welcomeLove thou mortal foe to lies 3 An Epitaph Upon the Right Honourable Sir Philip Sidney Knight Lord Governor of Flushing died 15... | 3 |
An Epigram onHenryNoel 5a The foe to thestomach andthe wordof disgrace | 5 |
The Excuse | 6 |
A Vision upon thisConceit ofThe Faerie Queene 8 Another of the Same 9 Farewellto the Court 10 Now we have present made | 7 |
If Cynthia bea queen a princess and supreme 12 My body in thewalls captivd | 13 |
The End of the Books of theOceans Love to Cynthia and theBeginning the Twoandtwentieth Book entreating of Sorrow | 14 |
What is ourlife? It is a play of 18 To the Translator of Lucan passion | 17 |
A Petition to Queen Anne 20 My broken pipesshall on thewillow hang 21 Evn such is time which takesin trust 22 Verse Translations from The Histor... | 19 |
Poems Sometimes Attributed toSir Walter Ralegh 23 Sweet are the thoughts where Hope persuadeth Hap 24 A Poem put into my Lady Leightons Poc... | 25 |
Passions are likend best to floods and streams | 26 |
The Nymphs reply to theShepherd 31 The Advice 32 Praisd be Dianas fair and harmless light 33 Like to a hermit poorinplace obscure 34 Feed still t... | 36 |
ELIZABETHIQUEEN OF ENGLAND 42 A hapless kind oflife is thisI wear 42a Madam but mark the labours of our life | 43 |
Happy werehe could finish forth his fate 50 Verses Madeby the Earl of Essex in hisTrouble 51 I am notasI seemI seem and amthe same EDWARD D... | 49 |
Notes | 61 |
The | 15 |
15a Go echo ofthe minda careless truth protest 16 Nature thatwashd her handsin milk | 16 |
Note on the Author and Editor | 69 |
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address’d Aeneid Affection beauties Belphoebe blissful breast chang’d conceit court day’s dead death defac’d delight desire despair disdain’d DODSWORTH doth dust earth Edmund Spenser Elizabeth Elizabeth Throckmorton Ev’n exiles my present eyes Faerie Queene faith fancy fancy’s Farewell favour fire flowers foes exiles fordone Fortune hath taken fortune’s George Gascoigne goddess grace grief hands in milk happy hate heart heaven inthe labour leave lively lark stretch’d lov’d Love to Cynthia love’s Lucan mind mind’s never night Ocean’s Love ofher ofthe ofwoe oppress’d Petrarch Pharsalia poet poison’d Prais’d praise princely princess Queen Anne Ralegh’s poems rest seek Sidney sighs Sir Walter Ralegh sith sorrow only stays sought soul Spanish Armada Spenser springtime Sweet tears Tell thee thelie Thomas Heneage thoughts where Hope Time’s eldest Tower of London turn’d unto verse virtue virtue’s walls captiv’d wash’d wert thou winter wither’d words wounds youth Zutphen