Love is a Poem

This book of poems is a gathering from poets with extracts from Shakespeare. It was published in 1962 by the Peter Pauper Press. Poems written by King Solomon, Omar Khayyam, William Shakespear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Charles Sedley,  and many more with decorations by Ruth McCrea.


The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 
By Christopher Marlowe
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valley, dales and fields,
Or woods or steepy mountains yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies;
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.

A gown made of the finest wool
Wich 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 thee move,
Come live with me and be my Love.

The Shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning;
If these delights thy mind may move,
Come live with me and be my Love.