greykit.poetry — #pastoral
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1821
[percy-bysshe-shelley]
Adonais
Shelley's pastoral elegy for John Keats in 55 Spenserian stanzas — mourning the death of genius at the hands of hostile critics, tracing the mourning of Urania and Keats's fellow-poets, and arriving at the vision of Adonais absorbed into the eternal One, a star beaconing from the abode where the Eternal are.
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1638
[john-milton]
Lycidas
A pastoral elegy for a college contemporary drowned in the Irish Sea, which breaks off mid-lament to arraign the corrupt clergy of the age — the two-handed engine at the door — before rising into consolation and turning away to fresh woods and pastures new.
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1599
[christopher-marlowe]
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Come live with me and be my Love — an offer made entirely of beds of roses, caps of flowers, lambswool gowns and coral clasps, with no mention of winter, which is exactly what the Nymph's reply will notice.