{"id":240,"date":"2010-02-26T02:57:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T02:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=240"},"modified":"2017-07-11T04:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:47:32","slug":"the-passionate-shepherd-to-his-love-by-christopher-marlowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-passionate-shepherd-to-his-love-by-christopher-marlowe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/chris1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-241 lazyload\" title=\"chris\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/chris1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/chris1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/chris1.jpg 200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 194px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 194\/300;\" \/><\/a>Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)<\/p>\n<p>Come live with me and be my love,<br \/>\nAnd we will all the pleasures prove<br \/>\nThat valleys, groves, hills, and fields,<br \/>\nWoods or steepy mountain yields.<\/p>\n<p>And we will sit upon the rocks,<br \/>\nSeeing the shepherds feed their flocks,<br \/>\nBy shallow rivers to whose falls<br \/>\nMelodious birds sing madrigals.<\/p>\n<p>And I will make thee beds of roses<br \/>\nAnd a thousand fragrant posies,<br \/>\nA cap of flowers, and a kirtle<br \/>\nEmbroidered all with leaves of myrtle;<\/p>\n<p>A gown made of the finest wool<br \/>\nWhich from our pretty lambs we pull;<br \/>\nFair lined slippers for the cold,<br \/>\nWith buckles of th purest gold;<\/p>\n<p>A belt of straw and ivy buds,<br \/>\nWith coral clasps and amber studs:<br \/>\nAnd if these pleasures may thee move,<br \/>\nCome live with me and be my love.<\/p>\n<p>The shepherds&#8217; swains shall dance and sing<br \/>\nFor thy delight each May morning:<br \/>\nIf these delights thy mind may move,<br \/>\nThen live with me and be my love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1500s","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}