Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/On Seeing a Young Lady Writing Verses with a Hole in her Stocking

On Seeing a Young Lady writing Verses with a Hole in her Stocking.

To see a lady of such grace,
With so much sense, and such a face,
So slatternly, is shocking!
O! if you would with Venus vie,
Your pen and poetry lay by,
And learn to mend your stocking.