CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS WIFE

Christopher Marlowe
1599 AD

come live with me and be my love

and we will all the pleasure prove

that valleys, groves, hills and fields

woods, or steepy mountain yields

and we will sit upon 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 poises

a cap of flowers , and a kirtle

embroidered all with leaves and 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 clasp and amber studs

and if these pleassures may thee move

come live with me and be my love

the shepherds' 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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