Love
One Tooth Has Mummius; but in Sooth
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
One tooth has Mummius; but in sooth
No man has such another tooth:
Such a prodigious tooth would do
To moor the bark of Charon to,
Or, better than the Sinai stone,
To grave the Ten Commandments on.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “One Tooth Has Mummius; but in Sooth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/504/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “One Tooth Has Mummius; but in Sooth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/504/.
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