| J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921. | | | | Adam Pos’d | | By Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) |
| | | COU’D our first father, at his toilsome plough, | |
| Thorns in his path, and labour on his brow, | |
| Cloath’d only in a rude, unpolish’d skin, | |
| Cou’d he a vain fantastick nymph have seen, | |
| In all her airs, in all her antick graces, | 5 |
| Her various fashions, and more various faces; | |
| How had it pos’d that skill, which late assign’d | |
| Just appellations to each several kind! | |
| A right idea of the sight to frame; | |
| T’ have guest from what new element she came; | 10 |
| T’ have hit the wav’ring form, and giv’n this Thing a name. | | | | |
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