Living

Verses Made for Fruit-Women: Apples

by Jonathan Swift 1667–1745

Living

Come buy my fine wares,
Plums, apples, and pears.
A hundred a penny,
In conscience too many:
Come, will you have any?
My children are seven,
I wish them in Heaven;
My husband a sot,
With his pipe and his pot,
Not a farthing will gain them,
And I must maintain them.

MLA

Swift, Jonathan. “Verses Made for Fruit-Women: Apples.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swift/103/.

Chicago

Swift, Jonathan. “Verses Made for Fruit-Women: Apples.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swift/103/.

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