Versicles

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Title:     Versicles
Author: Lord Byron [More Titles by Byron]

I READ the "Christabel;"[1]
Very well:
I read the "Missionary;"[2]
Pretty--very:
I tried at "Ilderim;"
Ahem!
I read a sheet of "Marg'ret of _Anjou_;"
_Can you_?
I turned a page of Webster's "Waterloo;"[3]
Pooh! pooh!
I looked at Wordsworth's milk-white "Rylstone Doe;"[4]
Hillo!
I read "Glenarvon," too, by Caro Lamb;[5]
God damn!

March 25, 1817.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] [_Christabel, etc._, by S.T. Coleridge, 1816.]

[2] [_The Missionary of the Andes, a Poem_, by W.L. Bowles, 1815.]

[3] [_Waterloo and other Poems_, by J. Wedderburn Webster, 1816.]

[4] [_The White Doe of Rylstone, or the Fate of the Nortons, a Poem_, by W. Wordsworth, 1815.]

[5] [_Glenarvon, a Novel_ [by Lady Caroline Lamb], 1816.]

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Lord Byron's poem: Versicles

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