Come live with me and be my love
- DMI number:
- 37746
- First Line:
- Come live with me and be my love
- Last Line:
- To live with thee and be thy love
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Dialogue, Lyric, and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Love and Nature
- Author:
- Christopher Marlowe
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Forster (1980): 58.
- Author:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Thomas Percy notes that 'Upon the whole I am inclined to attribute them [the lines] to Marlow, and Raleigh'. It is as much a speculation now, as it was then, as to who was the author of this popular poem.
- First Line:
- Come live with me and be my love
- Last Line:
- Then live with me and be my love
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Live with me and be my love
- Last Line:
- To live with thee and be thy love
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Come live with me and be my whore
- Last Line:
- And leave our old ones for a pledge
- Relationship:
- Parody Of/Parodied By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [2nd ed] [Vol 1] [T83735] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.218-220
- Poem Title:
- XI. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
- Attribution:
- Marlow, and Raleigh
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]Christopher Marlowe
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [3rd ed] [Vol 1] [T82693] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.220-222
- Poem Title:
- XI. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
- Attribution:
- Marlow, and Raleigh
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]Christopher Marlowe
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [4th ed] [Vol 1] [T81998] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.234-236
- Poem Title:
- XII. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
- Attribution:
- Marlow, and Raleigh
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]Christopher Marlowe
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