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Sir Walter Raleigh

1552 AD — 1618 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd
Fain Would I
The Silent Lover
The Lie
Verses to Edmund Spenser
On the snuff of a candle the night before he died
Written the night before his death
Poem
Sir Walter Raleigh
Historie of the World
Discretion · anthology attribution: Sir Walter Raleigh
Dress · anthology attribution: Sir Walter Raleigh
Drink · anthology attribution: Sir Walter Raleigh
Friendship · anthology attribution: Sir Walter Raleigh
God · anthology attribution: Sir Walter Raleigh
Talking · anthology attribution: Sir Walter Raleigh
Temperance · anthology attribution: Sir Walter Raleigh
Beauty · anthology attribution: Raleigh
Printed citation: Raleigh
Printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh
Page 233 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh (Historie of the World)
Page 151 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh · subject: COURT
Page 198 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh · subject: ENVY
Page 236 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh · subject: FOUNTAIN
Page 329 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh · subject: JESUS
Page 521 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh · subject: SAVIOUR
Page 600 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh · subject: THOUGHT
Page 90 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh · subject: Flowers
Quote1691 · printed citation: SIR WALTER RALEIGH: Silent Lover, St

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01c. 1585 AD

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

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02c. 1585 AD

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

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03c. 1585 AD

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

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04c. 1585 AD

Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

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05c. 1585 AD

Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.

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06c. 1585 AD

Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.

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07c. 1585 AD

Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.

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08c. 1585 AD

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!

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09c. 1585 AD

Shall I, like an hermit, dwell On a rock or in a cell?

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10c. 1585 AD

If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?

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11c. 1585 AD

If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?

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12c. 1585 AD

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

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13c. 1585 AD

[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

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14c. 1585 AD

O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretchèd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

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15Undated

Remember the divine saying, He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life.

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16Undated

No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.

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17Undated

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice, than to drunkenness: for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

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18Undated

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.

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19Undated

Thou mayest be sure that he who will in private tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred.

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20Undated

There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.

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21Undated

The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world.

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22Undated

Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words, is a niggard in deed.

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23Undated

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.

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24Undated

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

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