Charlotte Dacre (c.1782-1841)
SIMILE.
THE little Moth round candle turning,
Stops not till its wings are burning:
So woman, dazzled by man’s wooing,
Rushes to her own undoing.
The above poem can be found in:
*Dacre, Charlotte. ‘Hours of Solitude’.
London: D.N.Shury, 1805.