Poetry Archives

No, it isn’t home neglecting
If you spend your time selecting
  Seven blouses and a jacket and a hat;
Or to give your day to paying
Needless visits, or to playing
  Auction bridge. What critic could object to that?
But to spend two precious hours
At a lecture! Oh, my powers,
  The home is all a woman needs to learn.
And an hour, or a quarter,
Spent in voting! Why, my daughter,
  You could not find your home on your return.