The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - for Harp

In honor of Valentine's Day (delayed by the great winter storm of 2021), here's a harp arrangement of John Dowland's circa-1600 tune written for Christopher Marlowe's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," sometimes known for its first line, "Come Live with Me and Be My Love."  This is a pretty little minute of harp music and pictures of sheep, girls, boys, hills, and valleys.  Enjoy!

Pictures in Video -

1 - Shepherd with a Flute, painting by Savoldo Giovanni Girolamo, Italy, circa 1525
2 - Return of the Herd, painting by Constant Troyon, France, circa 1860
3 - Shepherd and Shepherdess, painting by Abraham Bloemaert, France, 1627
4 - View of the Sele River and the Alburni Mountain Range, painting by Jacob Philipp Hackert, Italy, 1788
5 - painting of shepherd, by Hossein Behzad, Iran, before 1968
6 - The Shepherdess, watercolor by Winslow Homer, US, 1880
7 - The Breton Shepherd, painting by Paul Gauguin, France, 1886
8 - Rest at Pont Aven, painting by Emile Bernard, France, circa 1888
9 - Shepherd Girl Resting, painting by Winslow Homer, US, 1878
10 - Cloud Shadows, painting by Viktor Zarubi, Ukraine, circa 1907

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
- by Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
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 wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy-buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And, if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me, and be my love.

The shepherd-swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me, and be my love.