Sir Walter Raleigh

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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Faerie Queens

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Topic

Rest

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

The Faerie Queens

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1590 1590s 16th century

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Original Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1590, bk. 1, canto 9, st. 40.

Current Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, edited by Thomas P. Roche and C. Patrick O'Donnell. Penguin Classics, 1979, bk. 1, canto 9, st. 40.

Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Political theory Setting up a government Government

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

The Cabinet-Council

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1618 1610s 17th century

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Citation

Raleigh, Walter. The Cabinet-Council. London: Thomas Johnson, 1658, ch. 26.

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

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Passion

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

The Silent Lover

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1618 1610s 17th century

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Original Citation

Raleigh, Walter. Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen. London, 1655, I. 1.

Current Citation

Raleigh, Walter. "Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen." The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

But true Love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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True love Love

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

Walsinghame

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

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Original Citation

Raleigh, Walter. Walsinghame. London, c. 1580, I. 41.

Current Citation

Raleigh, Walter. "As You Came from the Holy Land." The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 41.

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!

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Nature of time Relentlessness of time Time

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1618 1610s 17th century

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Original Citation

Raleigh, Walter. Even Such is Time. London, c. 1618, I. 1.

Current Citation

Raleigh, Walter. "Even Such is Time." Great Short Poems. Dover Publications, 2000, I. 1.

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!... Thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet (here lies).

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Death as equalizer Death

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

The History of the World

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1614 1610s 17th century

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Citation

Raleigh, Walter. The Historie of the VVorld / In Five Bookes. London: Ben Jonson, 1614, bk. 5, ch. 6.

But times do change and move continually.

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Faerie Queens

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The only constant is change

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

The Faerie Queens

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1599 1590s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Spenser, Edmund. "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie." The Faerie Queene. London: Mathew Lownes, 1609, canto 7, st. 47.

Current Citation

Spenser, Edmund. "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie." Spenser: The Faerie Queene, edited by A. C. Hamilton, Hiroshi Yamashita, and Toshiyuki Suzuki. Longman, 2006.

Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Topic

International politics Political power

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Language

English

Time

1618 1610s 17th century

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Citation

Raleigh, Walter. "A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c." The Works of Sir Walter Raleigh, Kt. Vol. 8, Oxford University Press, 1829.