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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: raleigh walter, Matches Found: 55 Raleigh, Walter Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter 48 poems available by this author A POEM ENTREATING OF SORROW Poem Text First Line: My days' delight, my springtime joys fordone Last Line: Unto this widow land and people hopeless? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A POEM PUT INTO MY LADY LAITON'S POCKET Poem Text First Line: Lady, farewell, whom I in silence serve Last Line: This comfort grows, I think I love thee best. A PROGNOSTICATION UPON CARDS AND DICE Poem Text First Line: Before the sixth day of the next new year Last Line: Whose very beard is flesh, and mouth is horn. Variant Title(s): On The Cards And Dice Subject(s): Bible; Gambling; Religion; Wagering; Betting; Theology A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (1) Poem Text First Line: Methought I saw the grave, where laura lay Last Line: And curst th' accesse of that celestiall theife. Variant Title(s): Of Spenser's Faery Queene;the Faerie Queen (to Spenser);of Edmund Spenser's Fairy Queen, A Vision Upon This Conceit Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Francesco Petrarca A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (2) Poem Text First Line: The prayse of meaner wits this worke like profit brings Last Line: Of all which speak our english tongue, but those of thy device Variant Title(s): A Vision Upon This Conceipt Of The Faery Queene Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) AFFECTION AND DESIRE Poem Text First Line: Conceit begotten by the eyes Last Line: To like, to love, to choose alike. Variant Title(s): A Poesy To Prove Affection Is Not Love Subject(s): Desire; Transience; Impermanence AN EPITAPH UPON THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR PHILLIP SIDNEY Poem Text First Line: To praise thy life or wail thy worthy death Last Line: Let angels speake, and heaven thy praises tell. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Sir Philip Sidney Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) ARTIST First Line: The artist and his luckless wife CLOUDS WILL SAIL AND WINDS WILL BLOW Subject(s): Country Life DESCRIPTION OF LOVE First Line: Now what is love? I pray thee, tell Last Line: And that he proves must find it so: %and this is love, sweetfriend, I trow Subject(s): Love DIANA Poem Text First Line: Praised be diana's fair and harmless light Last Line: With circes let them dwell that think not so. Variant Title(s): The Shepherd's Praise Of Diana Subject(s): Diana (goddess); Moon DISGRACED COURTIER'S LAMENT First Line: Yet have these wonders want, which want DULCINA First Line: As at noon dulcina rested Variant Title(s): On Dulcin EPITAPH OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER Poem Text First Line: Here lies the noble warrior that never blunted sword Last Line: Here lies the lord of leicester that all the world did hate. Subject(s): Dudley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Leicester FAIN WOULD I, BUT I DARE NOT FALSE LOVE Poem Text First Line: Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies Last Line: Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. Variant Title(s): A Farewell To False Love Subject(s): Love FAREWELL TO THE COURT Poem Text First Line: Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired Last Line: To haste me hence to find my fortune's fold. Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sorrow Stays Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness FEED STILL THYSELF FORTUNE HATH TAKEN THEE AWAY, MY LOVE Last Line: No fortune base shall ever alter me Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Fortune HIS LOVE ADMITS NO RIVAL Poem Text First Line: Shall I, like a hermit, dwell Last Line: What care I how rich it be? HIS PETITION TO QUEEN ANNE OF DENMARK (1618) Poem Text First Line: O had truth power, the guiltless could not fall Last Line: Who brings us equal, if not greater, bliss. Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England IF CYNTHIA BE A QUEEN, A PRINCESS, AND SUPREME IN COMMENDATION OF GEORGE GASCOIGNE'S STEEL GLASS (1576) Poem Text First Line: Sweet were the sauce would please each kind of taste Last Line: I fear me much, shall hardly reach so high. Subject(s): Books; Gascoigne, George (1525-1577); Reading LAST BOOKE OF THE OCEAN TO SCINTHIA, SELS. First Line: To seeke new worlds, for golde, for prayse, for glory LOVE AND TIME Poem Text First Line: Nature, that washed her hands in milk Last Line: Shuts up the story of our days. Subject(s): Time MY BODY IN THE WALLS CAPTIVED MY WOE MUST EVER LAST First Line: She is gone, she is lost, she is found, she is ever fair ON THE LIFE OF MAN Poem Text First Line: What is our life? A play of passion Last Line: Only we die in earnest, that's no jest. Variant Title(s): Life's Tragi-comedy;what Is Our Life;all The World's A Stage Subject(s): Life ON THE SNUFF OF A CANDLE, THE NIGHT BEFORE HE DIED Poem Text First Line: Cowards fear to die, but courage stout Last Line: Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery SECRET MURDER HATH BEEN DONE OF LATE First Line: A secret murder hath been done of late- Last Line: For at your sight my wound doth bleed anew. SWEET ARE THE THOUGHTS WHERE HOPE PERSUADETH HAP SWEET UNSURE First Line: Sweet were the joys that both might like and last THE ADVICE Poem Text First Line: Many desire, but few or none deserve Last Line: Farewell the rest, the soil will be disdain'd. THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF Poem Text Recitation First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust. Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence THE EXCUSE Poem Text First Line: Calling to mind, my eyes [or mine eyes] long went about Last Line: I lov'd my selfe, bicause my selfe lov'd you. Subject(s): Love THE HERMIT Poem Text First Line: Like to a hermit poor, in place obscure Last Line: To let in death when love and fortune will. THE LIE Poem Text First Line: Go, soul, the body's guest Last Line: No stab the soule can kill. Variant Title(s): The Soul's Errand;the Lye Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Lies; Social Protest; Soul; Truth; Valor; Bravery; Liberty THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: If all the world and love were young Last Line: To live with thee and be thy love. Variant Title(s): "reply To Marlow's ""the Passionate Shepherd"";answer To Marlowe;the Shepherdess Replies;the Milk-maid's Mother's Answer; Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Transience; Impermanence THE OCEAN TO CYNTHIA Poem Text First Line: Sufficeth it to you, my joys interred Last Line: For tender stalks---- THE PASSIONATE MAN'S PILGRIMAGE Poem Text First Line: Give me my scallop shell of quiet Last Line: To tread those blest paths which before I writ Variant Title(s): His Pilgrimage;faith;the Pilgrim;the Pilgrimage;the Soul's Pilgrimage Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Religion; Theology TO HIS LOVE WHEN HE HAD OBTAINED HER Poem Text First Line: Now serena be not coy Last Line: That can count all they have and more. TO HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Our passions are most like to floods and streams Last Line: And sues for no compassion. Variant Title(s): Sir Walter Ralegh To The Queen;to The Queen;to Queen Elizabeth;the Silent Lover Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 TO HIS SON Poem Text First Line: Three things there be that prosper up apace Last Line: It frets the halter, and it chokes the child Variant Title(s): The Wood, The Wool, The Wag;the Wood, The Weed, The Wag;sir Walter Ralegh To His Son Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Dead, The TO JESUS First Line: Rise, o my soul, with thy desires to heaven Subject(s): Religion TO THE TRANSLATOR OF LUCAN'S PHARSALIA (1614) Poem Text First Line: Had lucan hid the truth to please the time Last Line: Nature thy muse like lucan's did create. Subject(s): Gorges, Sir Arthur (1577-1625); Lucan (marcus Annaeus Lucanus); Translating & Interpreting VIRTUE THE BEST MONUMENT Poem Text First Line: Not caesar's birth made caesar to survive, / but caesar's virtues .. Yet alive Last Line: Or faintly beating, show them dead or ill. Subject(s): Virtue WALSINGHAM Poem Text First Line: As you came from the holy land / of walsingham Last Line: From itself never turning. Variant Title(s): My Love Hath Left Me;how Should I Your True Love Know;pilgrim To Pilgrim Subject(s): Love; Shrines WHAT TEARS, DEAR PRINCE, CAN SERVE TO WATER ALL Raleigh, Walter Alexander 7 poems available by this author BALLADE OF THE GOTH First Line: In days of old when spenser sang EATING SONG First Line: If you want to drive wrinkles for belly and brow LINES SUGGESTED BY AN EDITION OF BLAKE'S POEMS First Line: If you try to do what's right %you pass your life in a horrible fright Last Line: And your emanation - lord protect her! - %commits adultery with your spectre Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) MY LAST WILL First Line: When I am safely laid away ODE TO HIMSELF First Line: Licences? Yes. Poetic licence STANS PUER AD MENSAM First Line: Attend my words, my gentle knave WISHES AT A GARDEN PARTY First Line: I wish I loved the human race Last Line: And when I'm introduced to one %I wish I thought what jolly fun! Variant Title(s): Wishes Of An Elderly Gentleman; Wishes Of An Eldery Man, Wished At A Garden Party, June 191 |
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