Come Live With Me

I recently watched a movie starring James Stewart. It came on TCM and I'm pretty sure it was made in 1941. In the movie Stewart quoted a beautiful poem by Christoper Marlowe. It inspired me. Here it is!

Come Live With Me and be my Love

And we will all the pleasures prove

The valleys, groves, hills, and fields,

woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks

Seeing the sheperds feed their flocks

By shallow rivers to whose fall

Melodious birds sing madrigals

And I will make thee bed of roses

And a thousand fragrant poises,

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle

Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool

Which from our pretty lambs we pull;

Fair lined slippers for the cold,

With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds

With coral clasps and amber studs:

And if these pleasures may the move,

Come live with me and be my love.

For the sheperds' swain shall dance and sing

For thy delight each May morning:

If these delights thy mind may move,

Then live with me and be my love.

A Passionate Sheperd to his Love: Chirstopher Marlowe