Shepherd'S Calendar

Shepherd'S Calendar. Ploughing in february, lambing in march, and. The poem provides a calendar of the country year, in which the various tasks performed by the farm labourer take their place:

I n this æglogue two shepheards boyes taking occasion of the season, beginne to make purpose of loue and other pleasaunce, which to springtime is. The shepheardes calender, series of poems by edmund spenser, published in 1579 and considered to mark the beginning of the english renaissance in literature.