Poetry Codex

Tudor & Elizabethan

Sir Walter Raleigh

1552–1618

Sir Walter Raleigh was an English courtier, explorer and poet, a favourite of Elizabeth I who later fell from favour and was ultimately executed under James I.

His surviving poems, several written while imprisoned in the Tower of London, meditate with stoic clarity on time, fortune and mortality.

Poems (15)

  1. The Silent Lover, Part i
  2. The Silent Lover, Part ii
  3. His Pilgrimage
  4. The Conclusion
  5. The Country's Recreations
  6. A Vision upon 'The Fairy Queen.'
  7. Love Admits No Rival
  8. The Shepherd's Description of Love
  9. The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd
  10. The Lie
  11. A Poesy to Prove Affection Is Not Love
  12. Like Hermit Poor
  13. Farewell to the Court
  14. As You Came from the Holy Land
  15. The Ocean to Cynthia

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