Arts & Sciences

A Volume of Nonsense

by Lord Byron 1788–1824

From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit

Arts & Sciences

Have all of your authors exhausted their store?
I thought you had published a good deal not long since.
And doubtless the Squadron are ready with more.
But on looking again, I perceive that the Species
Of "Nonsense" you want must be purely "facetious;"
And, as that is the case, you had best put to press
Mr. Sotheby's tragedies now in M.S.,
Some Syrian Sally
From common-place Gally,
Or, if you prefer the bookmaking of women,
Take a spick and span "Sketch" of your feminine He-Man.

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September 28, 1820. First published, Letters, 1900, v. 83.

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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “A Volume of Nonsense.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/249/.

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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “A Volume of Nonsense.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/249/.

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