Sir Walter Raleigh

1552–1618

Best-known poems

• The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

  If all the world and love were young,
  And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
  These pretty pleasures might me move …

• Lines found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster

  E’en such is time; that takes in trust
  Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
  And pays us but with earth and dust; …

All poems (10)

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