In the poem "The Passionate Shepherd to his love" by Christopher Marlowe, we see how the shepherd invites the nymph to come and live in a free love type of world. He explains how they could unleash their passionate sexual desires on the fields, see the water falls, and hear the birds sing, and dance on May mornings. This is an invitation to come and live a passionate and apparently happy life with the shepherd. "And I will make thee beds of roses and a thousand fragrant posies (Marlowe 681)." In other words, the shepherd invites his lover to come and enjoy the beauty of the nature with him. And we will sit upon the rocks, seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, by shallow rivers to whose falls, Melodious birds sing madrigals. He invites his loves to come and live with in this kind of paradise where time stand still.
In the other hand in the poem "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" By Sir Walter Raleigh, he argues that if the world was the way the shepherd makes it look like is not truthful, plain and most of all free as the shepherd argues. Raleigh in his poem says that time doesn't stand still, the seasons will come and go, and life is not as free and easy as the shepherd makes it look like. In the poem is expressed the response to the shepherd in reference to this line : "The shepherds 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"(Marlowe 681). Raleigh response in his poem is: "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. This response can be interpreted as a clear statement that time doesn't stand still and so we cannot act on impulses until we have examined the consequences.
In conclusion, one can understand that there is a need of love from sides, the shepherd and the nymph want to love...