Arts & Sciences
On Moore's Last Operatic Farce, or Farcical Opera
From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit
Arts & Sciences
Good plays are scarce,
So Moore writes farce:
The poet's fame grows brittle--
We knew before
That Little's Moore,
But now't is Moore that's little.
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Codex Note
September 14, 1811. First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 295 (note).
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “On Moore's Last Operatic Farce, or Farcical Opera.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/214/.
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “On Moore's Last Operatic Farce, or Farcical Opera.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/214/.
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