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Poem by Mary Wortley Montagu


A Summary of Lord Lyttleton's Advice to a Lady


Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet,
In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.



Mary Wortley Montagu


Mary Wortley Montagu's other poems:
  1. The Fourth Ode of the First Book of Horace Imitated
  2. Epigram, 1734
  3. Melinda's Complaint
  4. Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday from the Country
  5. Ballad, on a Late Occurrence


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