Arts & Sciences
To My Book (Unhappy Volume)
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, vol. 3 (1907)
Arts & Sciences
Unhappy Volume!--doom'd by fate
To meet with unrelenting hate
From those who can their venom spit,
Yet condescend to steal your wit:
While Shylock with malicious spirit,
Allows you not a grain of merit,
While he an idle pomp assumes,
Let him return his borrowed plumes,
And you will find the insect creeping,
With not a feather worth the keeping.
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Freneau, Philip. “To My Book (Unhappy Volume).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/freneau/237/.
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Freneau, Philip. “To My Book (Unhappy Volume).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/freneau/237/.
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