My mother's maids when they do sow and spin

DMI number:

8857

First Line:

My mother's maids when they do sow and spin

Last Line:

To fret inward for losing such a loss

Poem Genre / Form:

Song

Themes:

The happy man / contentment

Related People

Author:

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Rebholz (1978): 189.

Content/Publication

Title:

Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who flourish’d in the reign of Henry the Eighth... With the poems of Sir Thomas Wiat, and others his Famous Contemporaries. [T68161]

Page No(s):

pp.95-98

Poem Title:

Of the Meane and sure Estate written to John Poynes.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Sir T. Wyattes Woorkes'

Attributed To:

Not attributed