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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON MRS. WALKER'S POEMS: PARTICULARLY THAT ON THE AUTHOR, by CHRISTOPHER PITT First Line: Blush, wilmot, blush; a female muse Last Line: The breeches and the bays. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers | |||
BLUSH, Wilmot, blush; a female muse, Without one guilty line, The tender theme of love pursues In softer strains than thine. 'Tis thine the passion to blaspheme, 'Tis her's with wit and ease (When a mere nothing is the theme) Beyond thyself to please. Then be to her the prize decreed, Whose merit has prevail'd; For what male poet can succeed, If Rochester has fail'd? Since Phoebus quite forgetful grows, And has not yet thought fit, In his high wisdom, to impose A salique law on wit; Since of your thoughts he takes no care, Ye Priors, Popes, and Gays; 'Tis hard! -- but let the women wear The breeches and the bays. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA) by ANNE WALDMAN THE WOMAN WHO WROTE TOO MUCH by KAY RYAN EPIGRAM: LADY BIOGRAPHER by WILLIAM JAY SMITH MRS. NASSAU SENIOR by ANNIE MATHESON SAPPHO BURNS HER BOOKS AND CULTIVATES THE CULINARY ARTS by ELIZABETH MOODY MAIDENHEAD: WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF A FRIEND by JOAN PHILIPS LIFE'S SONGS by ELETHA MAE TAYLOR ON SIR J- S- SAYING IN A SARCASTIC MANNER, MY BOOKS WOULD MAKE ME MAD by ELIZABETH THOMAS IMITATION OF SPENSER by CHRISTOPHER PITT ON THE MASQUERADES by CHRISTOPHER PITT MONODY ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. R.B. SHERIDAN by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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