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Searching for poem about a spiteful wasp
Posted by: Laurel (---.phil.east.verizon.net)
Date: April 03, 2022 04:29PM

My grandmother, 94, who just died used to recite a poem about a wasp. The poem was about spite. Try as I might, I cannot remember what she used to quote.

Is anyone familiar with a poem about a spiteful wasp?

Re: Searching for poem about a spiteful wasp
Posted by: lg (---.ca.charter.com)
Date: April 03, 2022 05:22PM

This one perhaps:

To Miss P--

WHOSE LIP WAS STUNG BY A WASP
---William Hutton

Dear Sally, why do you complain
That from the sting you feel a pain,
Forgetting, while you love pursue,
How many pains are caus'd by you
A remedy you want that cures--
Then let my lips be join'd to yours.
Balsamic virtues may be found,
Sufficient for a deeper wound;
But if this should not lay your smart,
'Twill heat the wound that's in my heart.

July 16, 1793.

Re: Searching for poem about a spiteful wasp
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.denver-03rh16rt-04rh15rt.co.dial-access.att.ne)
Date: April 04, 2022 10:44AM

There was an old man of St. Bees
Who was horribly stung by a wasp.
When they said 'Does it hurt?'
He replied 'No it doesn't -
It's a good job it wasn't a hornet!'
-- W.S. Gilbert

Re: Searching for poem about a spiteful wasp
Posted by: Laurel (69.7.238.---)
Date: April 04, 2022 02:16PM

Although the William Hutton poem is beautiful and the W.S. Gilbert is humorous, neither of them is the one my grandmother quoted. Thank you for trying, however.

Laurel

Re: Searching for poem about a spiteful wasp
Posted by: lg (---.ca.charter.com)
Date: April 04, 2022 03:06PM

Do you recall any lines from the poem? That would help immensely.

Les

Re: Searching for poem about a spiteful wasp
Posted by: Laurel (---.phil.east.verizon.net)
Date: April 06, 2022 05:20PM

Les,

No, I don't recall any lines. What I do remember is that the poem was about spite. It had something to do with the sting of a spiteful wasp. The moral of the poem was that it doesn't pay to be spiteful against others because it only eats you alive. Vague, I know. But my H doesn't remember any lines either. My grandmother often quoted it to me when discussing my mother's relationship with me.

Wish I could be more helpful.

Laurel

Re: Searching for poem about a spiteful wasp
Posted by: Ðïvêr§ït¥ (192.168.128.---)
Date: March 17, 2022 04:11PM

Forgiveness

Stung by a spiteful wasp
I let him go life free.
That proved the difference in him and me.
For, had I killed my foe,
it had proved me at once
the stronger wasp
and no more difference.

W.H. Davies



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