Come live with me and be my love
And we'll the highest pleasures prove:
The treasures hidden in the fields
And forests – all that nature yields.
We'll sing amid the wooded dells,
And fall beneath the skylark's spells;
Beside a sighing mountain stream
We'll rest and share a leafy dream;
Then venturing to the mountain's peak
We'll see what words will never speak!
If you these pleasures may but move,
Come live with me and be my love.
I'll weave for you a laurel crown,
An ivy sash and myrtle gown
And slippers wrought of silver light
To chase the moon across the night,
And when we catch her by the sea
She'll fill us up with poetry!
If these delights your heart may move,
Come live with me and be my love.
Yet, if these pleasures cannot be,
Still will I love you faithfully;
And if my faith your spirit move,
Then live with me and be my love.
Lovely =]
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My favourite poet? That is a hard question! I really love the works of John Keats and Percy Shelley. I have been studying the works of the classical poets for a number of years now and they have all had their influences on me, that is certain. This poem is a poetic response to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love". That may be why it sounds familiar.
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