If Cynthia be a queen, a princess, and supreme,
Keep these among the rest, or say it was a dream,
For those that like, expound, and those that loathe express
Meanings according as their minds are moved more or less;
For writing what thou art, or showing what thou were,
Adds to the one disdain, to the other but despair,
Thy mind of neither needs, in both seeing it exceeds.
More verses by Sir Walter Raleigh
- No Pleasure Without Pain
- The Crosse Of Christ
- The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
- The Ocean To Cynthia
- What Is Our Life