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...FABLE: THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE LOW-DOWN WHITE by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE EDINBURGH AFTER FLODDEN by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN MEMORY'S VISIT by DEAN ALETTA BAILLIE LINES WRITTEN AT GENEVA by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES CRUSADERS by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN ON SEEING MISS FONTENELLE IN A FAVOURITE CHARACTER by ROBERT BURNS |