Arts & Sciences

Versicles

by Lord Byron 1788–1824

From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit

Arts & Sciences

I Read the "Christabel;"
Very well:
I read the "Missionary;"
Pretty--very:
I tried at "Ilderim;"
Ahem!
I read a sheet of "Marg'ret of Anjou;"
Can you?
I turned a page of Webster's "Waterloo;"
Pooh! pooh!
I looked at Wordsworth's milk-white "Rylstone Doe;"
Hillo!
I read "Glenarvon," too, by Caro Lamb;
God damn!

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March 25, 1817. First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 87.

MLA

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “Versicles.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/232/.

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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “Versicles.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/232/.

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