The Riddle

I dressed a lot of persons

I patched clothes to many others

The rich as well as the poor

I took off thorns

To the sick I pierced boils

I also pierced plenty of ears

Most people need me

They can’t do without me

I adorned too many brides

I made their grooms look handsome

So that they please their admirers

I protected the miserable

I covered and wormed them

With the suitable cloth

I cared a lot for the wrecked

I provided them with food in plenty

I realized later on

That I was doing only good

But as if I was digging in water

No profit coming in return

From the ungrateful man

Yet I kept accomplishing my duty

What I said is an example

I took it from our rich repertory

All the words I’ve used

Are about my doings

And those of the needle

Which remains naked.

ahcene mariche

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• In Imitation of E. of Rochester : On Silence poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• In Imitation of E. of Dorset : Artemisia poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• In Imitation of Chaucer poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• From an Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Epistle II: To A Lady (Of the Characters of Women) poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Eloisa to Abelard poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Couplets on Wit poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Chorus of Youths and Virgins poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English
• Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster by Poetry In English

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