Social Commentaries
The Spiteful
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Social Commentaries
There are who, when they read a book
And find not that for which they look,
Spit venom over every page
With viperine and deadly rage.
What hurts them so ? if hm-t is done
'Tis by their home-fed scorpion.
Imprudently they lick their sore,
A rabid tongue inflames it more.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Spiteful.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/171/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Spiteful.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/171/.
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