Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd

Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

by Sir Walter Raleigh

'Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd' is a poem written by Sir Walter Raleigh in response to Christopher Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'. It is a witty and charming poem in which the nymph rejects the shepherd's advances, arguing that the simple life of nature is preferable to the artificiality of courtly love.

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