{"id":115090,"date":"2014-02-25T23:44:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T04:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115090\/poems-the-lovelorn-shepherds-plea-and-shipshape-sheep\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T23:44:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T04:44:50","slug":"poems-the-lovelorn-shepherds-plea-and-shipshape-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115090\/poems-the-lovelorn-shepherds-plea-and-shipshape-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"POEMS: The Lovelorn Shepherd’s Plea and Shipshape Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"

These two poems were created for the CPC’s monthly Pick Apart Poetry challenge<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The idea is to pick out 25 words from a featured poem to use to create a new poem. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The original poem is by Christopher Marlowe, and is shown at the end here.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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\n THE LOVELORN SHEPHERD’S PLEA<\/font>
\n <\/strong><\/font> <\/strong>
\n If thee be my love,<\/font>
\n pretty lamb of shepherds flock,<\/font>
\n fragrant flowers shall dance and sing.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Come live with me<\/font>
\n in valleys, groves, hills and fields,<\/font>
\n pretty lamb of shepherds flock.<\/font><\/p>\n

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-the shepherd.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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SHIPSHAPE SHEEP<\/strong><\/font> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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A gown made of the finest wool,
\n wool slippers for the cold.
\n A belt of wool.
\n Pretty lamb delights
\n the shepherd’s flock.
\n Each May morning,
\n lamb stud minds come a-live
\n with love.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong>by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)<\/font><\/p>\n

Come live with me and <\/strong><\/font>be my love<\/font>,
\n And we will all the <\/font>pleasures<\/font> prove
\n That <\/font>valleys, groves, hills, and fields,<\/font>
\n Woods or steepy mountain<\/font> yields.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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And we will sit upon the rocks,
\n Seeing the <\/font>shepherds<\/font> feed their <\/font>flocks<\/font>,
\n By shallow rivers to whose falls
\n Melodious <\/font>birds sing<\/font> madrigals.<\/font><\/p>\n

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And I will make thee <\/font>beds of roses<\/font>
\n And a thousand <\/font>fragrant <\/font>posies,
\n A cap of <\/font>flowers<\/font>, and a kirtle
\n Embroidered all with leaves of <\/font>myrtle<\/font>;<\/font><\/p>\n

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A <\/font><\/font>gown<\/font> made of the<\/font><\/font> finest wool<\/font>
\n Which from our <\/font>pretty lambs<\/font> we pull;
\n Fair lined <\/font>slippers for the cold<\/font>,
\n With <\/font>buckles <\/font>of<\/font> the purest gold;<\/font><\/p>\n

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A <\/font>belt of<\/font> <\/font>straw and ivy<\/font> buds,
\n With coral clasps and amber <\/font>studs<\/font>:
\n And<\/font> if <\/font>these pleasures may<\/font> thee<\/font> move,
\n Come live with me and be my love.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The <\/font>shepherds\u2019<\/font> swains <\/font>shall dance and sing<\/font>
\n For thy <\/font>delight each May morning<\/font>:
\n If these delights thy <\/font>mind<\/font> may move,
\n Then live with me and be my love.
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These two poems were created for the CPC’s monthly Pick Apart Poetry challenge. The idea is to pick out 25 words from a featured poem to use to create a new poem. The original poem is by Christopher Marlowe, and is shown at the end here. \u00a0 THE LOVELORN SHEPHERD’S PLEA If thee be my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}