Arts & Sciences
On a Reader of His Own Verses
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Arts & Sciences
Hoarse Mævius reads his hobbling verse
To all and at all times,
And deems them both divinely smooth,
His voice as well as rhymes.
But folks say, Mævius is no ass!
But Mævius makes it clear
That he's a monster of an ass,
An ass without an ear.
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Adapted by Coleridge from Wernicke's Epigrams
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