Franklin Pierce Adams

To a Light Houskeeper

(Who hitches laundering articles to the curtain
string and pastes them on the pane.)
 
 
Lady, thou that livest
 Just across the way,
If a hang thou givest
 What the people say,
If a cuss thou carest
 What a poet thinks–
Hearken, if thou darest,
 Most immodest minx!
 
Though thy gloves thou tiest,
 To the curtain string,
Though the things thou driest
 Gird me while I sing,
Hankies and inventions
 Of the lacy tribe–
Things I may not mention,
 Let alone describe.
 
These I mutely stand for
 Though the sight offend,
THIS I reprimand for;
 Take it from a friend:
 
Cease to pin thy tresses
 To the window sill,
Or I’ll tell the presses–
 Honestly, I will.
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