Love
Metellus Is a Lover: One Whose Ear
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Metellus is a lover: one whose ear
(I have been told) is duller than his sight.
The day of his departure had drawn near;
And (meeting her beloved over-night)
Softly and tenderly Comma sigh'd:
" Won't you be quite as happy now without me? "
Metellus, in his innocence replied,
" Comma! oh Comma! can you doubt me? "
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Metellus Is a Lover: One Whose Ear.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/484/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Metellus Is a Lover: One Whose Ear.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/484/.
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