The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares the poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," by Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, a quintessential love poem.

This is the 201st episode of the Any Good Poem series, started back in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 26 years in Psychiatric Times in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Tender Fences.