What Could Avail Her?

What could avail her

against such a bold beguiler,

against such a bewilderer

of even the brightest buttons,

against whom all fasteners are fools,

this deft undoer and most delicate disrober,

so adept in all aspects

of gently releasing and downward easing,

of the lulling and laying out

of lovely languorous limbs,

of the proficient plundering

of even the most modest maidens?