Not a very productive search. There are lots of verses and couplets, and only a couple of verses that refer to the process itself, in the context of impressing someone's sweatheart:

Poem from a busk in the collection of W.W. Bennett Cited in The Yankee Whaler by Clifford W. Ashley

"Scrimshaw"

Accept, dear Girl this busk from me;
Carved by my humble hand.
I took it from a Sparm (sic) Whale's Jaw,
One thousand miles from land!

In many a gale,
Has been the Whale,
In which this bone did rest,
His time is past,
His bone at last
Must now support thy brest (sic).



Couplet from a tooth decorated off the coast of Japan on the first voyage of the whaler Susan in 1829 Cited in The Yankee Whaler by Cliford W. Ashley

Death to the Living,
Long live the Killers,
Success to Sailors' wives, and Greasy Luck to Whalers.