The poems of sir Walter Raleigh collected and authenticated with those of sir Henry Wotton and other courtly poets from 1540 to 1650, ed. with an intr. and notes by J. Hannah

CHISWICK PRESS:-PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS,

TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

Appendix to Introduction, A. Early Extracts

on Raleigh's Poetry and Life.

IV. Answers to "The Lie

V. The Reaction after his Death

Appendix to Introduction, B. List of Poems

wrongly ascribed to Raleigh

xxvi

xxviii

XXX

THE POEMS OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH NOW FIRST COL-

LECTED AND AUTHENTICATED.

1. Walter Rawely of the Middle Temple in com-

mendation of the Steel Glass; 1576

II. The Excuse, written by Sir Walter Raleigh in his

younger years

III. An Epitaph upon the Right Honourable Sir Philip

Sidney, Knight, Lord Governor of Flushing;

1586

IV. A Vision upon this Conceit of the Fairy Queen;

v. Another of the same; 1590

VI. Reply to Marlowe :-

1. Marlowe's Song; The Passionate Shepherd

to his Love; before 1593

2. Raleigh's Reply; before 1599

VII. Like Hermit poor; before 1593

VIII. Farewell to the Court; before 1593

IX. The Advice.

Page

x. In the Grace of Wit, of Tongue, and Face;

xv. A Poesy to prove Affection is not Love; before

1602

XVI. The Lie; certainly before 1608; possibly before

1596

XVII. Sir Walter Raleigh's Pilgrimage; circ. 1603? • 27

XVIII. What is our Life? The play of passion

XIX. To the Translator of Lucan; 1614

XX. Continuation of the lost poem, Cynthia; now

first published from the Hatfield MSS.;

1604-1618?

XXI. Sir Walter Raleigh's Petition to Queen Anne

of Denmark; 1618

XXII. Sir Walter Raleigh's Verses found in his Bible

in the Gate-house at Westminster; 1618 . 54

XXIII. Fragments and Epigrams:-

1. From Fuller's Worthies

2. Riddle on Noel

3, 4. Two Quotations from Puttenham; 1589

5. Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester, 1588.

6. Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury; 1612 56

7. A Poem put into my Lady Laiton's pocket 57

8. Sir W. Raleigh on the Snuff of a Candle

the Night before he died; 1618.

XXIV. Metrical Translations occurring in Sir W.

Raleigh's History of the World, 1614

XXV-XXX. Six Poems ascribed to Raleigh on less
conclusive evidence:-

XXV. No Pleasure without Pain; before 1576

XXVI. The Shepherd's Praise of his Sacred Diana;

XXVII. The Shepherd's Description of Love; before

1600 [read 1593]

XXVIII. As you came from the Holy Land

XXIX. Shall I, like an hermit, dwell

XXX. To his singular friend, William Lithgow; 1618

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