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Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hill and valley, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.
There will we sit upon the rocks
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Then live with me and be my love.
There will I make thee beds of roses
With a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
...
The shepherd swains 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.
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3,7 of the original text.
See Raleigh's famous response, The nymph's reply to the shepherd.
See also the parody by Archibald Stodart-Walker.
Composition:
- Set to music by William Sterndale Bennett (1816 - 1875), "Come live with me", 1846, stanzas 1-3,7 [ chorus ], partsong
Text Authorship:
- by Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593), "The passionate shepherd to his love", written 1580-1592?
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Der feurige Schäfer zu seiner Liebsten", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Adolf von Marées) , "Der Schäfer an sein Lieb"
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 28
Word count: 199
Komm, leb' mit mir und werde mein
und alle Freud' wird unser sein,
die Täler, Hügel, Wald und Feld
und steiler Berg bereit uns hält.
Am Felsen sitzend schauen wir
der Schäfer Herden, weidend hier
am sanftem Fluß, zu dessen Fall
Singvögel zirpen Madrigal.
Und ich mach' Dir ein Bett von Rosen
mit duftenden Bouquets zum Kosen,
die Blumenhaub', der Rock zum Gürten
bedeckt mit Stickerei von Myrthen;
...
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3,7 of the original text.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2010 by Walter A. Aue, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593), "The passionate shepherd to his love", written 1580-1592?
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This text was added to the website: 2010-03-26
Line count: 24
Word count: 137