Question

Example of a pastoral poem

Answer 1

Answer:

One famous example of pastoral poetry is Christopher Marlowe's poem, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Here are the first three stanzas:

'COME live with me and be my Love,

And we will all the pleasures prove

That hills and valleys, dale and field,

And all the craggy mountains yield.

There will we sit upon the rocks

And see the shepherds feed their flocks,

By shallow rivers, to whose falls

Melodious birds sing madrigals.

There will I make thee beds of roses

And a thousand fragrant posies,

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle

Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love