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 Raleigh Was Right
- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

© 1950 William Carlos Williams.
It can be found for example in: Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1950.

The poem was written in reference to Sir Walter Ralegh's The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd.

Williams was awarded the National Book Award for Poetry in 1950, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1952, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1963.