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Poems Of Sir Walter Raleigh: Her Reply
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Raleigh, Sir Walter
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Her Reply
A Reply To Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" .
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.
But Time drives flocks from field to fold; When rivers rage and rocks grow cold; And Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complains of cares to come.
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy ...
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