In AEsop's tales an honest wretch we find, Whose years and comforts equally declined; He in two wives had two domestic ills, For different age they had, and different wills; One plucked his black hairs out, and one his gray, The man for quietness did both obey, Till all his parish saw his head quite bare, And thought he wanted brains as well as hair. The Moral. The parties, henpecked William, are thy wives, The hairs they pluck are thy prerogatives; Tories thy person hate, the Whigs thy power, Though much thou yieldest, still they tug for more, Till this poor man and thou alike are shown, He without hair, and thou without a crown. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STRAYED REVELLER by MATTHEW ARNOLD A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 15 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A SONG OF APPLE-GATHERING by GORDON BOTTOMLEY THE HOPELESS PASSION by BERTON BRALEY LOVE POEMS: 3 by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) THE RUSTIC PAINTER by ALICE CARY SUNSETS by FLORENCE BOYCE DAVIS TO THE EXCELLENT MASTER OF MUSIC, SIGNIOR PIETRO REGGIO, ON HIS SONGS by THOMAS FLATMAN |