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The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home by Robert Herrick - All Poetry
This poem celebrates the harvest and the end of the farming season. Herrick uses vivid imagery to create a picture of the festivities.
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hock-cart, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun hock-cart is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for hock-cart is from 1648, in the writing of Robert Herrick, poet.
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Robert Herrick – The Hock Cart, or Harvest Home | impracticalcriticism
This poem glorifies rural labour in pastoral imagery and singing verse, offering itself as a folk song for villagers at harvest time.
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hock-cart
hock-cart Obs. exc. Hist. [Cf. hockey1.] The cart or wagon which carried home the last load of the harvest.1648 Herrick Hesper. Argt., I sing of may-poles, hock⁓carts, wassails, wakes, Of bride-grooms, brides, and of their bridall cakes. Ibid., Hock-cart 14 The Harvest Swaines, and Wenches bound For...
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Hock Cart - Brewer's - Words from Old Books
The high cart, the last cart-load of harvest. “The harvest swains and wenches bound. For joy, to see the hock-cart crowned.
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Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in Herrick's “The Hock ...
Herrick's “The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home: To the Right Honourable, Mildmay, Earle of Westmorland” was composed at a time when the unpropertied rural ...
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Similar harvest customs in mid-17th century Devon are described in Robert Herrick's poem "The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home".
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Harvest Home and Hock Cart: English Harvest Festivals.
Harvest Home was celebrated throughout Europe. In each place the last wagon of the harvest — in most of England the "Hock Cart" — had its own ...
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The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home by Robert Herrick - Poem
Come Sons of Summer, by whose toile, We are the Lords of Wine and Oile: By whose tough labours, and rough hands, We rip up first, then reap our lands.
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[PDF] 1 Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in Herrick's 'The Hock ...
A range of dates have been conjectured for 'The. Hock-Cart', the earliest being John Creaser's suggestion of between 1628 and 1630 ('“Times trans-shifting”:.
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Robert Herrick – “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”, “The Hock ...
The hock-cart of the title is the last cart carrying home the harvest, whose travel home was the cause for celebration. Even though we don't ...
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smirking
smirking, ppl. a. (ˈsmɜːkɪŋ) [f. smirk v.] 1. That smirks or smiles affectedly; simpering. Said of persons, or their features.c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 430 Hine befran ða Decius mid smerciᵹendum muðe. c 1510 Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) E v, Their smerking paynted chin. 1593 Harvey Pierce's Super. W...
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Pastoral
Robert Herrick's The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home was also written in the 17th century.
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hockey
▪ I. hockey1, hawkey, horkey (ˈhɒkɪ, ˈhɔːkɪ) Also 6 hocky, hooky, 7 hoacky, hoky, 8 hoaky, 9 hockay, hawkie. [Origin and etymological form unknown: cf. hock-cart.] 1. The old name in the eastern counties of England for the feast at harvest-home.1555 [see 2]. 1600 Nashe Summer's Last Will & Test. in ...
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harvest-home
harvest home, harvest-home 1. The fact, occasion, or time of bringing home the last of the harvest; the close of the harvesting.1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. iii. 35 His Chin new reapt, Shew'd like a stubble Land at Haruest-home. 1693 Dryden Persius iv. 64 At harvest-home, and on the shearing-day. 1757...
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