So the industrious bees do hourly strive To bring their loads of honey to the… — Mary Collier
So the industrious bees do hourly strive To bring their loads of honey to the hive; Their sordid owners always reap the gains, And poorly recompense their toils and pains.
1739
★ 3.5Provenance
Current citation
Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour." The Woman's Labour and Other Poems. Renard Press, 2021.
Original citation
Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck." The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck: in Answer to His Late Poem, Called The Thresher's Labour. To which are Added, The Three Wise Sentences, Taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III. and IV. London, 1739.
