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According to the poem's most well-known critic, S. K. Heninger, the Nymph is more figurative and philosophical while the Shepherd is more literal and concrete.

Heninger and other critics also note that, "Raleigh's poem betrays ambivalence, with sophisticated details like gold buckles and amber studs revealing the unavoidable contamination of the pastoral ideal by the worldly." In other words, they believe that his poem shows the mixed feelings between the two parties.

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Colonizes Virginia in Queen Elizabeth's honor.

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Sir Walter Raleigh takes a stand and attacks a Spanish settlement. Because of this action however, when he returns to England he was beheaded.

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In 1603, King James imprisoned Raleigh for treason and he was held in the Tower of London for some time until he was eventually released.

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In 1585, Queen Elizabeth knights Walter Raleigh and makes him the governor of the new territory that was recently discovered.

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In 1578, Walter Raleigh began his first voyage to the New World with his half-brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, on a ship called the Falcon.

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- Coch, Christine. “The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600.” Infobase Learning - Login, 2008, online.infobase.com/HRC/Search/Details/10857?q=The%2BNymph%27s%2BReply%2Bto%2Bthe%2BShepherd.
- Learnoutloud. “Sir Walter Raleigh Biography.” YouTube, YouTube, 14 Apr. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJyJlxI_YVE.
- “Walter Raleigh Facts.” Walter Raleigh Facts ***, www.landofthebrave.info/walter-raleigh.htm.

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The theme of this poem is that love is as beautiful as nature but it does not last forever.

Within the poem, Raleigh mentions that "flowers do fade" (17) and that "a heart of gall, is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall" (21-23). Just as nature's beauty does not last, the love between two people eventually fades as well.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJyJlxI_YVE

This video discusses the success and failure of Sir Walter Raleigh. His success as a poet, explorer, and overall man is portrayed in this video.

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Sir Walter Raleigh was well educated in typical Elizabethan subjects including navigation, astronomy, cartography, mathematics, and seamanship. This most likely resulted in his success as a philosopher, explorer, and overall poet.

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If all the world and love were young,

And truth in every Shepherd’s tongue,

These pretty pleasures might me move,

To live with thee, and be thy love.

Time drives the flocks from field to fold,

When Rivers rage and Rocks grow cold,

And Philomel becometh dumb,

The rest complains of cares to come.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields,

To wayward winter reckoning yields,

A honey tongue, a heart of gall,

Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.

Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of Roses,

Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies

Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten:

In folly ripe, in reason rotten.

Thy belt of straw and Ivy buds,

The Coral clasps and amber studs,

All these in me no means can move

To come to thee and be thy love.

But could youth last, and love still breed,

Had joys no date, nor age no need,

Then these delights my mind might move

To live with thee, and be thy love.