...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 Mirtle. A gown made of the finest...

...horticulturally, ecologically, phytogenetically, phytosociologically, algologically, dendrologically 42 Flowers And I will make thee beds of roses / And a thousand fragrant posies. — CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE NOUNS 1 flower, floweret, floret, flowerlet, bloom, blossom, blow;...

...Massacre at Paris That like I best, that flies beyond my reach. 70 1 1 The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 4-1895 1 W posies. 7012 Tamburlaine the Great From jigging veins of rbyming mother-wits, And such conceits as...

...Seeing 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...

...others in the catalogue of "made" gifts act out what the poem does in transforming nature into pastoral: "And I will make thee beds of Roses, / And a thousand fragrant poesies." What this shepherd will "make" — and maker is among preferred sixteenth-century terms for poet —...

...1500s, Christopher Matlowe wrote the following lines for his poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love": "And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies." In 1860, some 270 years later, Ralph Waldo Fmcrson opined in The Conduct of Life, "I wish...

...Seeing 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 poesies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle. Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle. A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we...

...Rocks, Seeing the Sheepheards feede theyr flocks, By shallow Riuers, to whose falls, Melodious byrds sings Madrigalls. And I will make thee beds of Roses,...fragrant poesies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle, Imbroydred all with leaues of Mirtle. A gowne made of the finest wooll, Which from our pretty Lambes...

...liue with mee, and be my loue, /And we will all the pleasures proue," "And we wil sit vpon the Rocks," "And I will make thee beds of Roses, /And a thousand fragrant posies," "And if these pleasures may thee moue,/Come liue with mee, and be my loue." Percy erased this...

...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...