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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.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sylvia Frances Chan 31 August 2024

THREE: Congratulations being chosen by Poem Hunter and Team as The Classic Poem Of The Day.5 Stars!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 31 August 2024

TWO: conveniently glossing over how nothing—not youth, love, nor 'pretty' gifts—can escape the destructive forces of time.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 31 August 2024

ONE: In this poem, the young woman (now described as a nymph) gives her a reply: an emphatic, resounding no! In her view, the shepherd's vision is totally unrealistic,

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Michelle Melody 13 May 2024

How poignant 'But Time drives flocks from field to fold; '

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Sylvia Frances Chan 13 May 2024

Amazing poem, gorgeiously worded, so fantastic to live with thee and be thy love. Beautiful, heavenly! 5 Stars Full

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Sylvia Frances Chan 31 August 2024

CONGRATS being chosen by Poem Hunter and Team as The Classic Poem Of The Day! 5 Stars! Most deserving poem!

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Chinedu Dike 23 January 2022

An insightful poem nicely embellished with poetic rhyme and rhythm. A beautiful work of art......

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Eagle Swift 10 July 2017

Love the expression and language used to describe love.

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Amar Agarwala 24 February 2017

Here's one wonderful poem - I love the title - and the verses are full of rhyme and rich with meaning. Needed to refer to a dictionary for a few words and found them enchanting.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 24 February 2017

A beautifully envisioned thought provoking love poem. Thanks for sharing it here.

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Tom Allport 24 February 2017

a loving poem of what it feels to be in love?

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Edward Kofi Louis 24 February 2017

Thy love! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 24 February 2017

Joys no date, nor age no need... thanks for sharing....

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Sylvaonyema Uba 24 February 2017

Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee and be thy love. Well expressed in a quatrain of 6 stanzas. Blended with sweet rhyme and musical sounds. Sylva

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R.j. Wynn 29 May 2013

Most would say I got lucky and let it go at that.

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Carlos Echeverria 29 May 2012

In the context of a response to Marlowe's poem, Raleigh eschews an idealized version of love for a realist model. Not that he's bereft of passion, as the rhyme scheme and meter flow with the pronounced heartbeat of a man in love.

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Thomas Farquhar 22 March 2012

This poem, if I remember my school days correctly, is in fact a response to another poets work and is intended to be tongue in cheek. Nonetheless, on its own it is an excellent piece of work.

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Kevin Straw 29 May 2010

What an impressive figure Raleigh was: to write as well as this, and be a great warrior and courtier. How many modern day soldiers or sailors could turn out such polished art?

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Ramesh T A 29 May 2010

He makes a clever proposition to be in love with his lady! It is all wonderful to read the description in small stanzas from the beginning to the end! Indeed a very nice poem to read!

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Taylah Watson 29 May 2009

My poem goes like this It's called 'It's still loading' please load for me and my friends please load and load until the end please load quick and please load fast before my time has past please load, please load for me and my family please load please load before I send this

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Taylah Watson 29 May 2009

I know a poem I can write but how do I get it on this website?

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