I have not heard she was at all poetic,

Though once she was seen reading the Bath Guide, ⁸⁰ And Hayley's Triumphs, ⁸¹ which she deemed pathetic,

Because she said her temper had been tried

So much, the bard had really been prophetic

Of what she had gone through with—since a bride.

But of all verse, what most ensured her praise

Were sonnets to herself, or bouts rimés.