Christ pleads his death, and then we live.
Be thou my speaker, taintless pleader,
Unblotted lawyer, true proceeder,
Thou movest salvation even for alms,
Not with a bribed lawyer's palms.
        (The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage, 46-50)

1. As You Came from the Holy Land
2. The Nymph's Reply
3. The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
4. Prais'd be Diana's Fair and Harmless Light

Biographical information

Given name: Sir Walter
Family name: Ralegh
Birth date: ca. 1552
Death date: 1618
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Walter Ralegh
          mother: Katharine Ralegh
          wife: Elizabeth Ralegh
          brother: Humphrey Gilbert
          brother: Carew Ralegh
          brother: George Ralegh
          brother: John Ralegh
          sister: Margaret Ralegh
          son: Carew Ralegh
          son: Walter Ralegh
Education
          School at Budleigh, Sidmouth or Ottery St. Mary
          Oriel College, Oxford
Literary period: Renaissance
Occupations
          Military Commander
          Naval commander
Residences
          Hayes, near Budleigh Salterton, South Devonshire: 1552
          Ireland: 1579
          Durham House, London: 1592
          Sherborne: 1592
First RPO edition: 1996-2000