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Verses Made for Fruit-Women: Onions

by Jonathan Swift 1667–1745

Living

Come, follow me by the smell,
Here are delicate onions to sell;
I promise to use you well.
They make the blood warmer,
You'll feed like a farmer;
For this is every cook's opinion,
No savoury dish without an onion;
But, lest your kissing should be spoil'd,
Your onions must be thoroughly boil'd:
Or else you may spare
Your mistress a share,
The secret will never be known:
She cannot discover
The breath of her lover,
But think it as sweet as her own.

MLA

Swift, Jonathan. “Verses Made for Fruit-Women: Onions.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swift/105/.

Chicago

Swift, Jonathan. “Verses Made for Fruit-Women: Onions.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swift/105/.

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