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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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THE POEMS OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH NOW FIRST COL-

LECTED AND AUTHENTICATED.

I. Walter Rawely of the Middle Temple in com-

mendation of the Steel Glass; 1576

11. 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 :-

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

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IX. The Advice.

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

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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?

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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

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 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

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

XXV. No Pleasure without Para;, before 1576

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

before 1593.

XXVII. The Shepherd's Description of Love; before

1600 [read 1533]*

XXVIII. As you came from the Holy Land

XXIX. Shall I, like an hermit, dwell

XXX. To his singular friend, William Lithgow; 1618 83