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INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS.

Appendix to Introduction, A. Early Extracts

on Raleigh's Poetry and Life.

I. The Critics

II. Edmund Spenser

III. Lampoons on Raleigh

IV. Answers to "The Lie "

V. The Reaction after his Death

Appendix to Introduction, B. List of Poems

wrongly ascribed to Raleigh

PART I.

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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;

1590

v. Another of the same; 1590

VI. Reply to Marlowe :-

.

3

4

5

8

9

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

10

11

12

13

IX. The Advice

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

before 1593

XI. Fain would I, but I dare not

XII. Sir Walter Raleigh to his Son

XIII. On the Cards and Dice.

XIV. The Silent Lover.

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

1602

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14

16

20

XVI. The Lie; certainly before 1608; possibly before

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

30

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

31

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

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

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;

before 1593.

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