shepherd

     

A shepher is a person who tends to, feeds, or guards sheep, especially in flocks. The word may also refer to one who provides religious guidance, as a pastor.

Trivia about shepherd

  • In his 6 years as a slave, Patrick held this farm job, tending to his first flock
  • To evade their fate, Oedipus' parents gave little Oeddie to one of these rural workers for disposal
  • His most famous (& maybe most imitated) poem is titled "The Passionate" this "to His Love"
  • It's the job of Acis, who woos Galatea in a Handel pastoral masque
  • Lord, it's the occupation mentioned in the first line of the 23rd psalm
  • In the following, Johnny Gilbert portrays Marlowe's "Passionate" one of these men "to his love":"Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove that valleys, groves, hills and fields, woods are sleepy mountain yields"
  • From age 19 comes "Il re pastore", in which one of these rural workers becomes a king
  • Like Psalm 23, Psalm 80 begins by comparing God to this worker