Summary

In the poem “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh, a nymph addresses a shepherd. She begins by telling him that she might agree to live with him and be his lover under certain conditions. She insists that she would accept the shepherd’s advances only if he was truthful, and the world was young. 

However, the nymph continues, since everything in the world is fleeting, from the wea...