Friday, June 6, 2008

The Shepherd And The Nymph

I remember in HS where a classmate and I competed in some school contests and we delivered poems by great classic poets of old. Here's some lines my partner and I recited from memory. I wonder where in the world has my partner gone? Those were the days....Oh-lah-lah!




The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
{Christopher Marlowe}
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
{Sir Walter Raleigh}
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  • Come, live with me and be my love
  • And we will all the pleasures prove
  • That valleys, groves, hills and fields
  • Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
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  • If all the world and love were young,
  • And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
  • These pretty pleasures might me move
  • To live with thee and be thy love.
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  • And we will sit upon the rocks,
  • Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
  • By shallow rivers, to whose falls,
  • Melodious birds sing madrigals.
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  • Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
  • When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,
  • And Philomel becometh dumb,
  • The rest complains of cares to come.
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  • And I will make thee beds of roses
  • And a thousand fragrant posies,
  • A cap of flowers and a kirtle,
  • Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
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  • The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
  • To wayward winter reckoning yields;
  • A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
  • Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
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  • A gown made of the finest wool,
  • Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
  • Fair-lined slippers for the cold,
  • With buckles of the purest gold.
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  • Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
  • Thy cap, thy kirtle and thy posies,
  • Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten--
  • In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
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  • A belt of straw and ivy buds,
  • With coral clasps and amber studs,
  • And if these pleasures made thee move,
  • Come live with me and be my love.
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  • Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
  • Thy coral clasps, thy amber studs,
  • All these in me, no means can move,
  • To come to thee and be thy love.
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  • The shepherd swains shall dance and sing,
  • For thy delight each May morning;
  • If these delights thy mind may move,
  • Then live with me and be my love.
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  • But could youth last and love still breed,
  • Had joys no date, nor age no need
  • Then these delights my mind might move
  • To live with thee and be thy love.
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Sunday, June 1, 2008

Endless Ways To Say I Love You!!!!



  1. Americans: I love you!
  2. Afrikaans: Ek is lief vir jouf!
  3. Albanian: Te dua!
  4. Amharic: Afekrishalehou!
  5. Arabic: Oshiboke {boy to girl}/ Noshiboka {girl to boy}
  6. Armenian: Yes kez si`rumem
  7. Basque: Maite zaitut!
  8. Bengali: Ami tomake bahlobashi!
  9. Bosnian: Volim te!
  10. Bulgarian: Obicham te!
  11. Catalan: T`estimo!
  12. Creole: Mi aime jou!
  13. Croatian: Volim te!
  14. Czech: Miluji tev!
  15. Danish: Jeg elsker dig!
  16. Dutch: Ik hou van je!
  17. English: I love You!
  18. Esperanto: Mi amas vin!
  19. Estonian: Mina armastan sind!
  20. Farsi: Tora dost daram!
  21. Filipino: Iniibig Kita!
  22. Finnish: (Ma) Rakastan sua!
  23. French: Je t`aime!
  24. Frisian: Ik hald fan dei!
  25. Galician: Querote!
  26. German: Ich liebe dich!
  27. Greek: S`ayapo!
  28. Gujarati: Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon! tane chaahuN chhuN!
  29. Hawaiian: Aloha wau ia 'oe!
  30. Hebrew: Anee ohev otakh {boy-to-girl}// Anee ohevet otkha! {girl-to-boy}
  31. Hindi: Main tumase pyar karta hun {b>g}//Main tumase pyar karti hun{g>b}
  32. Hungarian: Szeretlek!
  33. Icelandic: Eg elska thig!
  34. Indonesian: Saya cinta padamu!
  35. Irish: T'a gr'a agam dhuit!
  36. Italian: Ti amo!
  37. Japanese: {Kimi o] Aishiteiru!
  38. Korean: {Dangsinul] Saranghee yo!
  39. Latin: Te amo!
  40. Latvian: Es tevi milu!
  41. Lithuanian: As tave myliu!
  42. Malaysian: Saya cintamu!
  43. Mandarin: Wo ai ni!
  44. Marshallese: Yokwe Yuk!
  45. Norwegian: Jeg elsker deg!
  46. Polish: Kocham ciebie!
  47. Portuguese: Eu te amo!
  48. Romanian: Te iubesc!
  49. Russian: Ya tyebya lyublyu!
  50. Sanskrit: Twayi snihyaami!
  51. Serbian : Volim te!
  52. Sesotho: Kiyahurata!
  53. Slovak: Lubim ta!
  54. Slovenian: Ljubim te!
  55. Spanish: Te amo!
  56. Swahili: Nakupenda!
  57. Swedish: Jag alskar dig!
  58. Tagalog: Mahal Kita!
  59. Thai: Phnom rug khun! {b>g}//Chan rug khun {g>b}
  60. Turkish: Seni seviyorum!
  61. Ukranian: Ya tebe kokhayu!
  62. Urdu: Main tumse muhabbat karta hoon!{b>g}/Main tumse mohabbat karti hoon{g>b}
  63. Vietnamese: Anh yeu em {b-to>g}// Em yeu anh {g-to-b]
  64. Welsh: Rwy'n dy garu di!
  65. Zulu: Ngiyakuthanda!


No matter how we say it, the meaning remains the same! I LOVE YOU!