“Come live with me and be my love.” This is a famous line from Christopher Marlow’s poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”. Marlow’s poem is thought to be one of the greatest pastoral poems ever written, and has resulted in many responses. None of these responses is as famous as Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard”. The two poems concern a shepherd trying to woo his love to come live with him and experience the joys of pastoral living, and the other, a nymph- which is more realistic in her terms. The two speaker
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