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The Passionate Shephard To His Love

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a poem written by the English dramatist, poet and translator, Christopher Marlowe in the 1590s.



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The message from Marlowe was one of ideal love, and also taking life at leisure and it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period. The poem was the subject of a well-known and somewhat jaded "reply" by Walter Raleigh, called The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd.

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by Christopher Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593)

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountains yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool,
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair-lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning;
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.

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