Crossword-Solution: MOPSA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

How oft have I been reft of sense, By gazing on their excellence, But meeting Mopsa in my way, And looking on her face of clay, Been healed, and cured, and made as sound, As though I ne’er had had a wound? And when in tables of my heart, Love wrought such things as bred my smart, Mopsa would come, with face of clout, And in an instant wipe them out.

And when their faces made me sick, Mopsa would come, with face of brick, A little heated in the fire, And break the neck of my desire.

Their angel voice surprised me now; But Mopsa, her Too-whit, Too-whoo, Descending through her oboe nose, Did that distemper soon compose.

Nay, she’s the yellow antidote, Both bred and born to cut Love’s throat: Be but my second, and stand by, Mopsa, and I’ll them both defy; And all else of those gallant races, Who wear infection in their faces; For thy face (that Medusa’s shield!) Will bring me safe out of the field.

She wrote _A Story of Doom_ and other poems, published in 1867, _Mopsa the Fairy_ in 1869, and several prose stories, etc.