• The Passionate Shepherd To His Love

    by  • May 1, 2007. 11:58 pm • General, Katy • 0 Comments

    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.

    –Christo­pher Marlowe

    P.S. Sorry about the for­mat­ting, they should be in stan­zas of four lines each, 
    but I can’t fig­ure out how to work the tech­nol­ogy to get it to behave. 
    It doesn’t like me for some reason.

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