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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
Related People
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.
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Content/Publication
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