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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SHEPHERDS & SHEPHERDESSES Matches Found: 121 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SHEPHERDS, RISE!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Shepherd's rise! And shake off sleep Last Line: "so unfold, and then away" Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses "TARRY WOO, TARRY WOO", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: With honest heart and tarry woo Subject(s): Clothing & Dress;shepherds & Shepherdesses A DIVINE PASTORAL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is my shepherd, my guardian, and guide Last Line: Be content all my life, and resign'd at my death. Subject(s): God; Hope; Lord's Supper; Praise; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Optimism A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherds watch their flocks by night Last Line: The offspring of this world below. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The; Theology A MORNING-PIECE, OR, AN HYMN FOR THE HAY-MAKERS, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brisk chaunticleer his matins had begun Last Line: And we'll dance to the tune of the stream. Subject(s): Fields; Labor & Laborers; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers A MOUNTAIN STATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a run a while ago Last Line: For sale! A mountain station.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cattle; Mountains; Rivers; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A PASTORAL OF PHILLIS AND CORYDON, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a hill there grows a flower Last Line: Never shepherd sung the like. Variant Title(s): Ipsa Quae;phillis The Fair Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses A SHEPHERD'S DREAM, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silly shepherd lately sat Last Line: The honour of his sleep. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses A SHOUT TO THE SHEPHERDS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Freshly, gaily, the rivulet flows Last Line: Good bye. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses A SILLY POOR SHEPHERD WAS FOLDING HIS SHEEP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: The more he laid on / the cu-colder was he! Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses A TIMOROUS SHEPHERD, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary of shepherding Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses ABER STATIONS: STATIO QUINTA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd calls Last Line: Back from the mountain wall. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Echo (mythology); Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The ADIEU, by ELEANOR ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: O shepherds! Take my crook from me Last Line: My shepherds dear -- good night! Alternate Author Name(s): Singing Shepherd, The Subject(s): Farewell; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Parting AN ECLOGUE, TO THE MEMORY OF DR WILLIAM WILKE, LATE PROFESSOR, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blaw saft, my reed, and kindly to my mane Last Line: Fam'd as the urn that hads the mantuan swain. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The; Nightmares AND NOW THE HOUSE-DOG STRETCHED ONCE MORE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Family Life; Relatives ARCADIA: SESTINA, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o sun, arcadia's clearest light Last Line: Farewell direction, farewell all affection. Variant Title(s): Strephon And Klaius Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses ASTROPHEL'S SONG OF PHILLIDA AND CORYDON, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair in a morn, (o fairest morn!) Last Line: And sunday shall be holiday. Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: The farmers in the sky and in the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BARBARA IN THE MEADOW, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morn is hanging her fire-fringed veil Last Line: Stay in it, barbara, stay, for your peace! Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses CHORUS AT THE GREEN BEAR INN, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruddy old shepherd, blithe of cheer Last Line: (long may it march before us!) Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Song Writing; Hotels CHRISTMAS, by HARRIET WHEELER PIERSON Poem Text First Line: A simple tale of shepherds and of sheep Last Line: And to the dear, familiar things, a star! Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Stars; Infants; Nativity, The CICERONIS AMOR: THE SHEPHERD'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walking in a valley green Last Line: And go contented to their sheep. Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form); Shepherds & Shepherdesses CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 1. TRUE AND CHASTE LOVE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shepheard colliden, who ere him know Last Line: To loue (in beauties absence) seemes to lower. Subject(s): Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: TO THE READER, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This shepheard's plaine apologie (deare friend) Last Line: Colliden. Subject(s): Friendship; Shepherds & Shepherdesses CO' BOSS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Co' boss, co' boss!' he calls Last Line: "co' boss"" across the wall." Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses COLIN FORTUNATUS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Colin once a shepherd boy Last Line: Once more in the grass with goat-heeled pan, Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Nature; Shepherds & Shepherdesses CORYDON'S SUPPLICATION TO PHILLIS, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet phyllis, if a silly swain Last Line: Is sworn the shepherds' queen. Variant Title(s): A Supplication;corydon's Supplication To Phyllis Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses ECLOGUE ON ELIZABETH BELSHAM, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis betsy! The joy of the plain Last Line: With betsy the joy of the plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Beauty EVENING [KNELL], by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherds all, and maidens fair Last Line: Thus I end my evening knell. Variant Title(s): Folding The Flocks;pastoral Evening Hymn;the Priest's Chant;the Priest's Evening Song;song Of The Priest Of Pan Subject(s): Animals; Shepherds & Shepherdesses FLOCKS AND HERDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey spring day / and a grey sky Last Line: The grey clouds lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Clouds; Gray (color); Lambs; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Grey (color) FLUTE, by EDITH CHERRINGTON Poem Text First Line: Above / the twilight town Last Line: Lie down. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses FOR THE FEAST OF ST. GENEVIEVE AND JOAN OF ARC, SELECTION, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once she tended the sheep in nanterre Last Line: The wisest flock to the father's right hand. Subject(s): Feasts; Paris, France; Shepherds & Shepherdesses GOOD SHEPHERDS, by DAVID GARRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, come, my good shepherds, our flocks we must shear Last Line: And leave to fine folks to deceive and betray. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Simplicity IN JANUARY, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, shepherd out upon the snow Last Line: Still creeping agelessly. Subject(s): January; Shepherds & Shepherdesses IN JULY (SOUTH OF ROME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale-rose the dust lying thick upon the road Last Line: Faint through the golden glimmer of the heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): July; Rome, Italy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Wind IT WAS NIGHT, AND ON THE MOUNTAINS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Grief; Death - Animals; Sorrow; Sadness JEANNE, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherdess born in lorraine Last Line: Jeanne d'arc, set wrath in our hearts. Subject(s): Betrayal; Shepherds & Shepherdesses LONDON, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let shepherds carol of the pearly mead Last Line: The human soul not yet regenerate. Subject(s): Cities; London; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Urban Life LORD GUY, by GEORGE F. WARREN Poem Text First Line: When swallows northward flew Last Line: And lanturlu. Subject(s): Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Women MENAPHON: DORON'S JIG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the shrubs as I can crack Last Line: Shepherds' loves. Subject(s): Animals; Lambs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses MICHAEL; A PASTORAL POEM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If from the public way you turn your steps Last Line: Beside the boisterous brook of greenhead ghyll. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses NOD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly along the road of evening Last Line: "rest, rest, and rest again." Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses ORGAN SONGS: AN OLD STORY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ancient house of ages Last Line: And a child for king! Subject(s): Animals; Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The PEACE AND SHEPHERD, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low in a deep sequester'd vale Last Line: "I cannot shelter thee." Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: PHILLIS AND CORIDON, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis kept sheep along the western plains Last Line: Phillis was lov'd, and she lik'd coridon. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Male-female Relations SEASON OF OMENS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poet's Biography First Line: When [the] calabashes held petrol and men Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Hunting; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hunters SHALL VERMONTERS RAISE SHEEP?, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see the boston papers say Last Line: Until there's more demand for sheep. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SHEPHERD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening has brought the glow-worm to the green Last Line: And gently leads the yoes that are with young. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; English SHEPHERD AND GOATHERD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year Last Line: And children when they spring up shoulder-high. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Death SHEPHERD'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I rode out this enderes' night Last Line: So merrily the shepherds their pipes can blow Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses SHEPHERDS' SONG, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw thee in thy balmy nest Last Line: Ourselves become our own best sacrifice! Variant Title(s): A Hymn Sung As By The Shepherds Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses SONG: 3, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me, simple shepherd, leave me Last Line: And the shepherd_of his love. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Ertotic Love SONG: 5, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As near a weeping spring reclin'd Last Line: Die, hapless araminta, die. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Ertotic Love SPRING IN NAZARETH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is come!' a shepherd Last Line: Green, green, the barley and the corn! Subject(s): Christianity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Spring; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE ALPINE SHEPHERD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In scenery sublime and rude Last Line: Far from his native mountain-home. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE BLACK FACED SHEEP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruminant pillows! Gregarious soft boulders! Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortality; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers THE CONTENTED SHEPHERD, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on a summer's day Last Line: And a shepherd all thy own. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE DESPAIRING SHEPHERD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alexis shunned his fellow swains Last Line: He bowed, obeyed, and died! Subject(s): Death; Love; Nymphs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The THE DUKE OF GUISE: SONG BETWIXT A SHEPHERD AND A SHEPHERDESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherdess: tell me thirsis, tell your anguish Last Line: Still the more 'tis melted down. Subject(s): Love; Nymphs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Songs THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a time when I loved Last Line: And arrest all these fast-flowing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Unfaithfulness; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE FLEECE: BOOK 1, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The care of sheep, the labours of the loom Last Line: To listen; and to view the joyous scene. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters THE FLOCK AT EVENING, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down from the rocky western steep Last Line: Among the dews of dawning time. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE FOLD, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bare, crooked wisp, that the thin hollows hold Last Line: And house me from the wind like any sheep? Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE GOOD SHEPHERD, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The shepherd feeds his fleecy flock with care Last Line: And sealed it with his own redeeming blood! Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE GREEN SHEPHERD, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sit a shepherd and a shepherdess Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE HEART'S RETURN, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When darkened hours come crowding fast Last Line: Folding his happy sheep and knowing all his tasks are done. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE HERD, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roaming sheep, forbidden to roam far Last Line: And at dawn shut into the sunny fold. Subject(s): Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE HERD BOY, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the southern village the boy who minds the ox Last Line: And a dark smoke oozes through the thatched roof. Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold. Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs THE LAME SHEPHERD, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly I followed on Last Line: Kissing and kneeling. Subject(s): Christmas; Healing; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The; Cures THE LAST LULLABY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The shepherd moon mothers her shining sheep Last Line: Wait what it saith! Subject(s): Comfort; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Silence; Sleep THE LITTLE SHEPHERD'S SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves, the little birds, and I Last Line: A bird! Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers THE LOVELINESS OF SPRING, by GIUSEPPE PARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Are pitiful and kind Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Spring; Love THE LOVING SHEPHERDESS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little one-room schoolhousc among the redwoods Last Line: Of the solemn Subject(s): Pregnancy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; California; Death; Dead, The THE MAD SHEPHERDESS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain pasture above a ravine. A valley below with Last Line: And so the star was never seen again. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE MAID THAT TENDS THE GOATS, by WILLIAM DUDGEON Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Up amang yon cliffy rocks Last Line: "come short, though they were e'er sae lang." Subject(s): Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jasper a swayne vpon the cotswold hill Last Line: (at the desire of iasper) thus repeated. Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Walnuts THE MOURNING GARMENT: THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SHEPHERD AND HIS WIFE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was near a thicky shade Last Line: Was not more in thessaly. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MOURNING-GARMENT: THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What is love! It is a pretty thing Last Line: What lady would not love a shepherd swain? Variant Title(s): Love In Arcady;the Shepherd And The King;happy As A Shepherd Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MYLORA ELOPEMENT, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the winding wollondilly where the weeping willows weep Last Line: There'll be numerous 'six-fortys' taken on mylora run. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE NEXT DAYS, by CHARLES RIVIERE DU FRESNY Poem Text First Line: Fair phyllis, more niggard than coy Last Line: To lizette who had started to woe him. Subject(s): Kisses; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If all the world and love were young Last Line: To live with thee and be thy love. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): "reply To Marlow's ""the Passionate Shepherd"";answer To Marlowe;the Shepherdess Replies;the Milk-maid's Mother's Answer; Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Transience; Impermanence THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come live with me and be my love Last Line: Then live with me, and be my love. Variant Title(s): The Milkmaid's Song Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE PASTORAL, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: The flute that melts beneath his spreading fingers Last Line: My pastoral flute to your silver olympian lyre. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Flutes; Muses; Music & Musicians; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SHEEP-HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day across the sagebrush flat Last Line: Thank god! Here comes a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States THE SHEEPHERD, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: When great love / did remove Last Line: To the flocks that thither run. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JULY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not thilke same a goteheard prowde Last Line: Thou hast such doubt to climbe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): September; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd is an ancient man Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He loved me, as he said, in every part Last Line: —nay, vain, vain words: how shall he understand? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Belief; Creed; Male-female Relations THE SHEPHERD, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am worn amid the burning dust Last Line: Melodies cool as water, soft as sleep. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the palace of the king Last Line: "sweet shepherd, fare thee well." Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Male-female Relations THE SHEPHERD (NEAR THE THEATRE OF MARCELLUS: PIAZZA MONTANARA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solitary he stands Last Line: Dwelleth and speaketh. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD BOY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like some vision olden Last Line: Lowly shepherd boy. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD BOY, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him naked on a hill Last Line: Come faintly down the wind. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD BOY (1), by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleased in his loneliness, he often lies Last Line: Where he a prisoner from a shower hath been. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; Loneliness THE SHEPHERD BOY (2), by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fly or beetle on their track Last Line: The summer long his whole employ -- Subject(s): Insects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Bugs THE SHEPHERD OF NYMPHS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nymphs a shepherd took Last Line: The nymphs a shepherd need. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Nymphs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD'S CONTENT, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the kindes of common countrey life Last Line: And never wake till marble-stones shall weepe. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Contentment THE SHEPHERD'S DAY, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flocks were trudging from their winter Last Line: Of darkening clouds soared forth his hearty lay. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD'S HOLIDAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The month of may is now begun Last Line: All on the shepherd's holiday Subject(s): Holidays;love;may (month);shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD'S LAMENT, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up yonder on the mountain Last Line: There is no rest for me! Subject(s): Lament; Love; Sea; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Ocean THE SHEPHERD'S LAMENT, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up yonder on the mountain Last Line: There is no rest for me! Subject(s): Lament; Love; Sea; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Ocean THE SHEPHERD, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot Last Line: For they know when their shepherd is nigh. Subject(s): Bible; Innocence; Mythology; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERD, LOOKING EASTWARD, SOFTLY SAID, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With one calm triumph of a modest pride Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Moon THE SHEPHERD-BOY AND THE WOLF, by AESOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shepherd-boy beside a stream Last Line: Even when the liar speaks the truth Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERDESS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walks - the lady of my delight Last Line: A shepherdess of sheep. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Variant Title(s): The Lady Of The Lambs Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SHEPHERDS' VISION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the dim judean hills Last Line: The glorious vision shineth still. Subject(s): Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vision THE SILENT SHEPHERDS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's the best life for a man? Last Line: If any mind for a moment touch truth Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Truth; God THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods of arcady are dead Last Line: Dream, dream, for this is also sooth. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Language; Truth; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was near the first cock-crowing Last Line: Lord of peoples, light of nations, elder brother, tender friend. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The THE STORY THE SHEPHERD TELLS THE SHEEP, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE THREE SAD SHEPPARDESSES, GOE TO A LITTLE TABLE, WHERE THEY SINGE, by ELIZABETH BRACKLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When once the presence of a friend is gone Last Line: Your welcome, when wee owne him as our day. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE UNKNOWN SHEPHERD'S COMPLAINT, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My flocks feede not, my ewes breede not Last Line: Other helpe for him, I see that there is none. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE WOLF AND SHEPHERDS; A FABLE, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laws, as we read in ancient sages Last Line: And to the mountains scour'd away. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: 1, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ciuill youth, whose life was led in court Last Line: Me to recall my flocks, and he his loue. Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Youth THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: 2, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When janiuere in s' one and thirtith age Last Line: The message of hir musicall adewes. Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: 3, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunne that had himselfe a courtier beene Last Line: How much you fauour vs, wee honour you. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Cultural Differences; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO MRS. B. FROM A LADY WHO HAD A DESIRE TO SEE HER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Send me your pity bounteous shepherdess Last Line: But yet at your command shall always be Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);grief;shepherds & Shepherdesses;treason & Traitors;" Sorrow;sadness TO WILLIAM BEDELL, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willy, thy rhythms so sweetly run and rise Last Line: To follow him, while others follow thee. Subject(s): Books; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs VERMONT WOOL CARDING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A-when we used to shear the sheep Last Line: The greeley hat and paisley shawl. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WASHING SHEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's folks that look like other folks Last Line: There's nothing, sure, like washing sheep. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas |
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