The Passionate Shepherd to His Love C. Marlowe

5 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The fifth poem in the collection. (* additional details below; after my initial, un-schooled, interpretation)

NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK:

"A fine example of the high-wrought and conventional Elizabethan Pastoralism, which it would be ludicrous to criticize on the ground of the unshepherdlike or unreal character of some images suggested. Stanza 6 was probably inserted by Izaak Walton."