IN NOTA A FAREWELL TO A FALSE LOVE,

 Farewell false love, the oracle of lies,
A mortal foe and enemy to rest,

Un interessante saggio sulla poesia di Walter Raleigh, FAREWELL TO A FALSE LOVE, pubblicata e tradotta in   http://ottantanovenuvole.blogspot.com/2011/04/sir-walter-raleigh-farewell-to-false.html

Perhaps the most relevant poem to our discussion on the Petrarchan sonnet is Sir Walter Ralegh’s Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay. Laura, as we now know, is the woman Petrarch commemorates in his love poems...
http://blogs.qc.cuny.edu/blogs/0909N0625/001/2009/10/petrarchan_sonnets_sir_walter.html

Farewell... false love

Here, the poem of  Raleigh :

Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay,

    Within that temple where the vestal flame

    Was wont to burn; and, passing by that way,

    To see that buried dust of living fame,

Whose tomb fair Love, and fairer Virtue kept:

    All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen;

    At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept,

   And, from thenceforth, those Graces were not seen:

For they this queen attended; in whose stead

    Oblivion laid him down on Laura’s hearse:

    Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed,

And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce:

    Where Homer’s spright did tremble all for grief,

    And cursed the access of that celestial thief!