The Nymph Rejects the Shepherd Essay -- Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd

The Nymph Rejects the guard The Nymphs Reply to the sheepherder is Sir Walter Raleighs song of compassionate rejection in response to Christopher Marlowes poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. The reasons the nymph constructs for her rejection are just excuses her real reason for turning the shepherd down is her lack of love for him. The nymph responds to the shepherds proposal to come become with me and be my love (1) by saying all(a) of the things he wants to give her will fade, whither, and be forgotten therefore, she cannot accept his offer. The shepherd lists in his poem many beautiful things he will give the nymph and all of the wonderful things they will do together. And we will sit upon the rocks, / Seeing the shepherds render their flocks...And I will make thee ...