Arts & Sciences
To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912)
Arts & Sciences
You say, as I have often given tongue
In praise of what another's said or sung,
'Twere politic to do the like by these;
But where's the wild dog that has praised his fleas?
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MLA
Yeats, W. B. “To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/93/.
Chicago
Yeats, W. B. “To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/93/.
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