Love Poems

Love Poems
From the Harbrace Anthology of Poetry, examine the sensual qualities of two love poems. (Mention lyric poetry). No INTRODUCTION paragraph needed.

Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618)
The Nymph’s Reply (pg 33-34)

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and by thy love.
But time drives flocks from field to fold,
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold;
And Philomel becometh dumb;
The rest complains of cares to come.
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields:
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
In fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.
Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, thy posies,
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, —
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
Thy coral clasps and amber studs, —
All those in me no means can move
To come to thee and be thy love.
But could youth last, and love still breed;
Had joys no date, nor age no need;
Then those delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love.

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (pg 35)

Come live with me and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales, and fields,
Woods, or steely mountain 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 min may move,
Then live with me, and be my love.

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