Sir Walter Raleigh. 1554 -1618. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618): The Discovery of Guiana, 1595 Introductory Note Sir Walter Raleigh may be taken as the great typical figure of the age of Elizabeth. Courtier and statesman, soldier and sailor, scientist and man of letters, he engaged in almost all the main lines of public activity in his time, and was distinguished in ...

The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh Poetry In Commendation of The Steel Glass The Excuse An Epitaph Upon The Right Honourable Sir Philip Sidney A Vision Upon This Conceit of The Fairy Queen. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Sir Walter Raleigh to his Son The Silent Lover The Lie On the Life of Man The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage As You Came from the Holy Land Even Such Is Time Praised be Diana's Fair ...

Sir Walter 'the Unfortunate' Raleigh (1552-1618) O eloquent, just and mightie Death, whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded. Sir Walter Raleigh The History of the World SIR WALTER RALEIGH TO LADY ELIZABETH RALEIGH I am but dust... At his execution in 1618 in the Tower of London, Sir Walter Raleigh asked to see the axe that was to behead him and said, This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a ...

An index of poems by Sir Walter Raleigh.