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Miss W- : The Gentleman's Study
Nov. 19th, 2013 10:03 amThe following poem, by an unknown author (and apparently only ever published in Dublin) was given as a reply to Swift's The Lady's Dressing Room. It is rather long, and exuberantly scatalogical.
Some write of angels, some of goddess,
But I of dirty human bodies,
And lowly I employ my pen,
To write of naught but odious men;
And man I think, without a jest,
More nasty than the nastiest beast.
( In house of office, when they're bare, )
I am indebted to Dr Miriam Jones of UNB St John, whose 2009 course materials are still lurking on Wordpress and include a glossed text of the poem, the only full-text version I could find online. The formatting didn't copy across and I had to recode a lot, but it's better than typing the whole turd-strewn poem out anew.
Some write of angels, some of goddess,
But I of dirty human bodies,
And lowly I employ my pen,
To write of naught but odious men;
And man I think, without a jest,
More nasty than the nastiest beast.
( In house of office, when they're bare, )
I am indebted to Dr Miriam Jones of UNB St John, whose 2009 course materials are still lurking on Wordpress and include a glossed text of the poem, the only full-text version I could find online. The formatting didn't copy across and I had to recode a lot, but it's better than typing the whole turd-strewn poem out anew.