Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HAWKER, by JOHN DOWLAND Poet's Biography First Line: Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new Last Line: Of no removes. Variant Title(s): A Peddler's Song;a Pedlar;lute Song Set By John Dowland (3) Subject(s): Love; Peddlers & Peddling | ||||||||
FINE knacks for ladies! cheap, choice, brave, and new, Good pennyworths -- but money cannot move: I keep a fair but for the Fair to view -- A beggar may be liberal of love. Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true, The heart is true. Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again; My trifles come as treasures from my mind: It is a precious jewel to be plain; Sometimes in shell the orient'st pearls we find: -- Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain! Of me a grain! Within this packe pinnes points laces and gloves, And divers toies fitting a country faier, But in my hart where duety serves and loves, Turtels and twins, courts brood, a heavenly paier: Happy the hart that thincks of no removes, Of no removes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PEDDLER WOMAN by ALICE ELODY BREDESON THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE PEDLER by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE BOOTLEGGER by STANLEY H. CAUFFMAN THE PEDLAR LEAVES THE BAR PARLOUR AT DYMCHURCH by FORD MADOX FORD THE CHILDREN'S PEDDLER by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD PUSH-CART by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG MY LADY'S TEARS by JOHN DOWLAND |
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