I have too much despised you to divert

My life from its set course by help or hurt

Of your all-despicable life—perturb

The calm I work in, by—men's mouths to curb,

Which at such news were clamorous enough—

Men's eyes to shut before my broidered stuff

With the huge hole there, my emblazoned wall

Blank where a scutcheon hung,—by, worse than all,

Each day's procession, my paraded life

Robbed and impoverished through the wanting wife