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.
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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.
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Current Citation
Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour." The Woman's Labour and Other Poems. Renard Press, 2021.
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