
Shepherd
Answer to Marlow
By M.R.Monifi
I can’t be your love.
This love, I don’t want.
You and your love don’t move.
To be thy love I cannot.
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This rocks you want to sit:
Not suitable for me and my wit;
You are shepherd only, not a Prince;
You have just this dirty flocks.
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The beds of roses, this is the worst:
I slept on a silk and have a rest.
On my a head, a crown made of gold:
You cap of flowers made of mould
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My gown made of the finest silk:
Go away, your flock and their milk:
Necklace, bracelet, diamond all I wear.
I’m princess of princesses here and every where.
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I’m like the moon more than Venus:
What Shakespeare said in nothing to me.
You not my love you’re mendacious:
That’s what I have and despair be.