Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S PAYMENT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis First Line: All fish and fowl, all fruit, and all you drink Last Line: In payment for their leaves, some soft white wool. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. | ||||||||
All fish and fowl, all fruit, and all you drink, Lie at the bottom of my purse, and I Demand at will two kisses for my one; This is my certain charge -- I swear it by Our honest cows, that turn those meadows white With mushrooms, where they passed a summer's night. Whether it is the seal or silver fox, The sable, silk, or plain white calico -- Two kisses for my one I charge at will, Since by my power these changes come and go: I swear by sheep, that let the brambles pull, In payment for their leaves, some soft white wool. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CHILD'S PET by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES A MOTHER TO HER SICK CHILD by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES A STRANGE MEETING by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES A THOUGHT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES ADVICE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES APRIL'S LAMBS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES BIRD AND BROOK by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES COWSLIPS AND LARKS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES DAYS TOO SHORT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES EARLY MORN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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