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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SHEPHERD OF NYMPHS, by HENRY VAN DYKE 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
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 nymphs a shepherd took
To guard their snowy sheep;
He led them down along the brook,
And guided them with pipe and crook,
Until he fell asleep.
But when the piping stayed,
Across the flowery mead
The milk-white nymphs ran out afraid:
O Thyrsis, wake! Your flock has strayed, --
The nymphs a shepherd need.
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