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Subject: RALEIGH, SIR WALTER (1552-1618)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALL ON SIR WALTER RALEIGH; AT YOUGHAL, COUNTY CORK, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, not at home, then, didst thou say?
Last Line: With edmund spenser, from this port.
Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


AN ANSWER, by ELIZABETH I    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah silly pugg, wert thou so sore afraid?
Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Fortune; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


AN ELEGY UPON S. W. R., by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will not weep, for 'twere as great a sin
Last Line: The world must still admire, scarce imitate.
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


AN INVITATION TO PHYLLIS, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come live with me, and be my love
Last Line: Then live with me, and be my love.
Subject(s): Courtship; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Dramatists


ANSWER, by ELIZABETH I    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah silly pugg, wert thou so sore afraid?
Last Line: The less afraid the better shalt thou spead
Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Fortune; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


ELEGY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus kiss I your fair hands
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


INSCRIPTION FOR A MEMORIAL WINDOW TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The new world's sons, from england's breasts we drew
Last Line: This window we inscribe with raleigh's name.
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


LADY RALEGH'S LAMENT, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir walter, oh, oh, my own sir walter --
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


LADY RALEGH'S LAMENT, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir walter, oh, oh, my own sir walter --
Last Line: Down and down; the compass needle dead on terror
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


RALEGH IN GUIANA, by BARRETT WENDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tonight, good friends, we come, as others came
Last Line: And with that all ends.
Subject(s): Guyana; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


RALEIGH WAS RIGHT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot go to the country
Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace
Subject(s): Country Life; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot go to the country
Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Rot; Decadence; Dramatists


RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot go to the country
Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace
Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays And Playwrights; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


SIR WALTER RALEIGH, by HENRY JEROME STOCKARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is not greatest who with pick and spade
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


SIR WALTER RALEIGH HIS LAMENTATION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Courteous kind gallants all
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


SIR WALTER RALEIGH TO A CAGED LINNET, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou tiny solace of these prison days
Last Line: Not to a captive who can answer nought.
Subject(s): Linnets; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


SIR WALTER RALEIGH! NAME OF WORTH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Smoking


SIR WALTER'S HONOR, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With drooping sail and shattered mast
Last Line: "before dishonor—death!"
Subject(s): Honor; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. SIR WALTER RALEIGH, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee that art the sommers nightingale
Last Line: Let thy faire cinthias praises bee thus rudely showne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


THE GOLDEN VANITY (6), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sir walter raleigh has built a ship
Last Line: In their sailing in the lowlands
Subject(s): "raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618);


THE SPIRIT OF THE AGES, by ALICE CARTER COOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stretched on the sand while tawny sailors ply
Last Line: Still vows to keep a tryst with high romance.
Subject(s): Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583); Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


WASSAIL CHORUS AT THE MERMAID TAVERN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas knows a merry, merry place
Last Line: Rare!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore
Subject(s): Christmas; Dramatists; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Heywood, Thomas (1574-1641); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Mermaid Tavern; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nativity, The