In a reimagining of this poem, the speaker warns that "hunger shall make thy modest zone / and cheat fond death of all but bone" and offers the addressee "peace and plenty, bed and board, / that chance employment may afford.
In a reimagining of this poem, the speaker warns that "hunger shall make thy modest zone / and cheat fond death of all but bone" and offers the addressee "peace and plenty, bed and board, / that chance employment may afford." This poem's speaker states that "we will sit upon the rocks" and look upon "shallow Rivers to whose falls melodious birds sing madrigals." In a reply to this poem, its addressee refuses offers of a "belt of straw and ivy buds" and "coral clasps and amber studs." Cecil Day-Lewis's response to this poem incorporates its two closing lines, which mention "these delights thy mind may move." Sir Walter Raleigh wrote a "nymph's reply" to, for 10 points, what pastoral poem by Christopher Marlowe in which the title character urges "come live with me and be my love"?
In a reimagining of this poem, the speaker warns that "hunger shall make thy modest zone / and cheat fond death of all but bone" and offers the addressee "peace and plenty, bed and board, / that chance employment may afford.
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"