Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "shepherd, what's love, I pray thee tell" Last Line: And shepherd this is love I trow Subject(s): Love - Nature Of | ||||||||
Meliboeus: Shepherd, what's love, I pray thee tell? Faustus: It is that fountain and that well, Where pleasure and repentance dwell; It is perhaps that sauncing bell, That tolls all in to heaven or hell: And this is love as I heard tell. Meliboeus: Yet what is love, I prithee say? Faustus: It is a work on holiday, It is December match'd with May, When lusty bloods in fresh array Hear ten months after of the play: And this is love, as I hear say. Meliboeus: Yet what is Love, good shepherd, sain? Faustus: It is a sunshine mix'd with rain, It is a tooth-ache, or like pain, It is a game, where none doth gain; The lass saith no, and would full fain: And this is Love, as I hear sain. Meliboeus: Yet, shepherd, what is Love, I pray? Faustus: It is a yea, it is a nay, A pretty kind of sporting fray, It is a thing will soon away, Then, nymphs, take vantage while ye may: And this is Love, as I hear say. Meliboeus: Yet what is love, good shepherd, show? Faustus: A thing that creeps, it cannot go, A prize that passeth to and fro, A thing for one, a thing for moe, And he that proves shall find it so: And, shepherd, this is love, I trow. [Authorship uncertain] | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RESCUE THE DEAD by DAVID IGNATOW BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON by MARK JARMAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 27 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 30 by JAMES JOYCE HE WHO KNOWS LOVE by ELSA BARKER LOVE'S HUMBLENESS by ELSA BARKER SONG (IN THE LUCKY CHANCE) by APHRA BEHN TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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