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Type: Poem

  • “A Vision Upon this Concept of the Faery Queene”...
  • “Elegy” by Robert Bolling (1775)
  • “Mendel’s Law: A Plea for a Better Race of...
  • “Mr Strachie’s Harke” by William Strachey
  • “Our massa Jefferson he say” by Anonymous (September 1,...
  • “The Conclusion” by Sir Walter Raleigh (1618)
  • “The Lie” (ca. 1590s)
  • “To Atlas” by St. George Tucker (June 5, 1793)
  • “Uncle Gabriel”
  • “Upon Sejanus” by William Strachey (1604)
  • Bacon’s Death and “Bacons Epitaph”; an excerpt from “The...
  • Commendatory Verse by Walter Raleigh (1576)
  • The Legend of Captaine Jones by David Lloyd (1631)

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Virginia Humanities acknowledges the Monacan Nation, the original people of the land and waters of our home in Charlottesville, Virginia.


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