A Farewell To False Love- Sir Walter Raleigh

Context: We all can  recognize Raleigh as the capital of North Carolinaasically artifical and such. It's interesting. His poem condems love as but it seems that he was really a romanticist himself. He married Queen Elizabeth's lady in waiting without her consent (even though he had great favor from the queen from being knighted by her, and recieving a royal patent to colonizethe americas with). Wouldn't the sole purpose of that be true love? Once the news became widespread, they were banished to the Tower of London together. (thanks wiki)

False Love is the enemy in the poem. The trick is seeing what Raleigh defines as false love.

Farewell false love, the oracle of lies, - an interpreter of lies
A mortal foe and enemy to rest, - basically just evil/ fluff
An envious boy, from whom all cares arise, - tricky. i would say that it would be that the boy was only    
 envious,  and that is where the supposed "care" stems from. Not from the real importance of the person.
A bastard vile, a beast with rage possessed, - morally wicked illegitimate person. as if their desires were so foul that there existence itself was unnecessary. a raged beast.
A way of error, a temple full of treason, - The defilement of a sacred place due to the betrayal of its people.That could be a false love, the appearance of dedication to a practice, and then the opposite of its teachings actually go on. ironic.
In all effects contrary unto reason. - the opposite of reason. now that's a pretty big statement. I guess passionate and impulsive thought and action.
A poisoned serpent covered all with flowers, - false friend, deceiver
Mother of sighs, and murderer of repose, - killer of a confidence in. murderer of a trust.
A sea of sorrows whence are drawn such showers - would that be the maker of the sea of sorrows?
As moisture lend to every grief that grows; - the sea gets bigger as the grief does.
A school of guile, a net of deep deceit, - the teaching of sly intelligence
A gilded hook that holds a poisoned bait. - well a hook will already kill the fish. poisoned bait, its like an unnecessary double kill. Maybe its the idea of it being a sure death, like the only goal.
A fortress foiled, which reason did defend, - A place of reason and a just truth was destroyed
A siren song, a fever of the mind, - crazy thoughts, Haimen's whispering
A maze wherein affection finds no end, - Well. I can tell he was a protestant, my god. A never-ending place, where affection never ends. Well I'm guessing when he said affection, he meant the physical aspect of it. sex is evil.
A raging cloud that runs before the wind, - the leader or most zealous participant of a bad thing.
A substance like the shadow of the sun, - that's interesting. well, there is no shadow of a sun. only light protrudes from the sun. The shadow of the sun must be a dark side or opposite being. the substance has to be just black and utter darkness.
A goal of grief for which the wisest run. - an end with sure meeting of sorrow and even the smartest run to. could be an opinion of love itself. maybe war.
A quenchless fire, a nurse of trembling fear, - helper of inducing utter fear
A path that leads to peril and mishap, - bad path.
A true retreat of sorrow and despair, - *****good thing? questionable as to why this is here.
An idle boy that sleeps in pleasure's lap, - innocence given to pleasure. aka corruption.
A deep mistrust of that which certain seems, - mistrust of the certain. general doubt.
A hope of that which reason doubtful deems. - reason most likely won't deem as true.
Sith* then thy trains my younger years betrayed, [since] - younger years betrayed by false love
And for my faith ingratitude I find; -
And sith repentance hath my wrongs bewrayed*, [revealed] - he repeated his wrongs
Whose course was ever contrary to kind*: [nature] - my course was contrary to nature's intent
False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu. - goodbye false love, desire, and beauty that won't last, goodbye.
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew- I'm done with false love.

He says certain things that are false love and then he also compares things to false love by coming up with awful things. Maybe he decided to write this poem when he chose to marry his wife. He was probably supposed to marry someone else in those times and he was done with the idea of following something he didn't believe in anymore. It's not about the untrue love of a person per say, but more the idea of doing something that you don't believe in and how that is utterly wrong. Haha john would appreciate this poem to back up his theories on war and bundling.