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The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
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1 Come live with me and be my love,
2 And we will all the pleasures prove,
3 That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
4 Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
5 And we will sit upon the rocks,
6 Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
7 By shallow rivers, to whose falls
8 Melodious birds sing madrigals.
9 And I will make thee beds of roses,
10 And a thousand fragrant posies,
11 A cap of flowers and a kirtle
12 Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle:
13 A gown made of the finest wool,
14 Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
15 Fair lined slippers for the cold,
16 With buckles of the purest gold:
17 A belt of straw and ivy buds,
18 With coral clasps and amber studs;
19 And if these pleasures may thee move,
20 Come live with me and be my love.
21 The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
22 For thy delight each May morning;
23 If these delights thy mind may move,
24 Then live with me and be my love.
Christopher Marlowe
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Anjali Mandokhot
(12/4/2008 9:21:00 PM) |
Its beautifull and reminds of unearthly promises and vows of bringing stars and moon to one's beloved's feet to woo her.....nicely written lovely poem...thanx
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Michael Pruchnicki
(12/4/2008 10:03:00 AM) |
The responses to Marlowe's 'Passionate Shepherd' on this site range from the merely idiotic to the uncomprehending. So one thinks the poem to be 'too long',
another that's it's not very well-written, and others seem to have missed Marlowe's point entirely. The best remedy is to read this poem in context with Raleigh's poem 'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd.' Perhaps Sarkis Krikorian would benefit from such a reading, because Raleigh's 'Reply' depends on common sense, a practical woman's response to all the gush of a romantic male intent on achieving his desires. Shakespeare would probably have agreed with Raleigh in the matter of romantic love and its pitfalls. And Keats was a romantic, but one who recognized the dangers inherent in 'passionate love'! Read the 'The Eve of St. Agnes' as contrast to 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'!
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Sarkis Krikorian
(12/4/2008 9:42:00 AM) |
Yes, I'd read this poem while I was a student, when feelings were new born, and love was the greatest of all feelings, I can say eternal...But, as years passed, and I grew old, I even found that love is supreme, once it gets into your heart, it's so hard to repel it...For, as Victor Hugo said; They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.Even more, like Shakespeare said; Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind—But how could I forget thee?
Its the purest feeling, we must keep it forever.Maybe some will say, I'm a dreamer, too romantic, but it's the truth, just like the words of John Keats; 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, 'that is all...
You know on earth, and all you need to know.
This is my comment, for I'll take love with me to the very end...
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poem master
(12/4/2008 9:09:00 AM) |
i do not like it, it is too boring
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poem master
(12/4/2008 9:09:00 AM) |
i do not like it, it is too boring
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poem master
(12/4/2008 9:09:00 AM) |
i do not like it, it is too boring
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Is It poetry
(12/4/2008 7:46:00 AM) |
Hello...This poem was so romantic I am sorely tempted to quit the priest hood and marry to see what I'm missing....... :)
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