Live with me and be my love
- DMI number:
- 37273
- First Line:
- 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 dear
- Last Line:
- And we will strait begin the year
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Come live with me and be my love
- Last Line:
- Alas is wiser far than I
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- 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:
- Come live with me and be my love
- Last Line:
- To live with thee and be thy love
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [Dublin] [Vol 1] [T83734] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.171-173
- Poem Title:
- X. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
- Attribution:
- Marlow, and Raleigh
- Attributed To:
- Christopher MarloweSir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [London and Frankfurt] [Vol 1] [T84265] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.182-183
- Poem Title:
- X. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
- Attribution:
- Marlow, and Raleig
- Attributed To:
- Christopher MarloweSir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [Vol 1] [T84936] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.200-202
- Poem Title:
- X The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
- Attribution:
- Marlow, and Raleigh
- Attributed To:
- Christopher MarloweSir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
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