One stanza of this poem claims that "Philomel becometh dumb" and "The rest complains of cares to come" after stating that "Time drives the flocks from field to fold / When rivers rage and rocks grow cold". Another stanza warns that "A honey tongue, a heart of gall / Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall". The phrase "In folly ripe, in reason rotten" is used to describe "thy beds of roses", "thy posies", and an assortment of things which "Soon break, soon wither" and are "soon forgotten". The penultimate stanza declares "
One stanza of this poem claims that "Philomel becometh dumb" and "The rest complains of cares to come" after stating that "Time drives the flocks from field to fold / When rivers rage and rocks grow cold". Another stanza warns that "A honey tongue, a heart of gall / Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall". The phrase "In folly ripe, in reason rotten" is used to describe "thy beds of roses", "thy posies", and an assortment of things which "Soon break, soon wither" and are "soon forgotten". The penultimate stanza declares "Thy belt of straw and ivy buds / Thy coral clasps and amber studs / All these in me no means can move / To come to thee and be thy love". FTP, name this poem by Sir Walter Raleigh, a response to Christopher Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.
One stanza of this poem claims that "Philomel becometh dumb" and "The rest complains of cares to come" after stating that "Time drives the flocks from field to fold /
The {Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd}