Quote
"Though we all day with care our work attend, Such is our fate, we know when ’twill end. When evening’s come, you homeward take your way. We, till our work is done, are forced to stay"
M
Mary CollierSo the industrious bees do hourly strive — 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."
M
Mary Collier
Mary Collier
author1688–17623 quotes
Mary Collier (1688–1762) was an English poet, perhaps best known for The Woman's Labour, a poem described by one commentator as a "plebeian female georgic that is also a protofeminist polemic."
More by Mary Collier
View all →Quote
"The greatest Heroes that the World can know, To Women their Original must owe."
M
Mary Collier