Poets/Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh

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If Cynthia be a queen, a princess, and supreme, …

Sir Walter Raleigh

Fortune hath taken thee away, my love, …

Sir Walter Raleigh

Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies, …

Sir Walter Raleigh

Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, …

Sir Walter Raleigh

As you came from the holy land …

Sir Walter Raleigh

Nature, that washed her hands in milk, …

Sir Walter Raleigh

Before the sixth day of the next new year, …

Sir Walter Raleigh

Prais’d be Diana’s fair and harmless light; …

Sir Walter Raleigh

Go, soul, the body’s guest, …

Sir Walter Raleigh

If all the world and love were young, …

Sir Walter Raleigh

Give me my scallop shell of quiet, …

Sir Walter Raleigh

As you came from the holy land …

Sir Walter Raleigh

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