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Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh

Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh

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Number of Chapters: 30

Length: 01 hour

Language: English

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)

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Walter Rawely of the Middle Temple (Alan Mapstone)
The Excuse (Alan Mapstone)
An Epitaph upon the Right Honourable Sir Phillip Sidney (Alan Mapstone)
A Vision upon this Conceit of the Fairy Queen (Alan Mapstone)
Another of the Same (Alan Mapstone)
Marlowe's Song; The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (Winnifred Assmann)
Raleigh's Reply (Winnifred Assmann)
Like Hermit Poor (Rags)
Farewell to the Court (Anthony St. Pierre)
The Advice (Larry Wilson)
In the Grace of Wit, of Tongue, and Face (Larry Wilson)
Fain would I, but I dare not (Larry Wilson)
Sir Walter Raleigh to his Son (nighthawks)
On the Cards and Dice (Anthony St. Pierre)
The Silent Lover (Alan Mapstone)
A Poesy to prove Affection is not Love (Bruce Kachuk)
The Lie (Anthony St. Pierre)
Sir Walter Raleigh's Pilgrimage (Anthony St. Pierre)
What is our Life? The Play of Passion (Algy Pug)
To the Translator of Lucan (Bruce Kachuk)
Sir Walter Raleigh's Petition to the Queen (Anne of Denmark) (Alan Mapstone)
Sir Walter Raleigh's Verses found in his Bible in the Gate House at Westminster (Algy Pug)
Fragments and Epigrams (Alan Mapstone)
Fragments and Epitaphs (Alan Mapstone)
No Pleasure without Pain (Larry Wilson)
The Shepherd's Praise of his Sacred Diana (Anthony St. Pierre)
The Shepherd's Description of Love (Anthony St. Pierre)
As you came from the Holy Land (Anthony St. Pierre)
Shall I, like an Hermit, Dwell (Anthony St. Pierre)
To his Singular Friend, William Lithgow (Bruce Kachuk)
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