Rosemary and Pansies/Epigrams

by Bertram Dobell

For works with similar titles, see Epigram and Epigrams.

EPIGRAMS

THE RELIGION OF POETS

Poets, you say, are irreligious. No!
Their creed is Love. Can you a better show?

CLAUDIO THE RESPECTABLE

Claudio, you say, is without vices—True!
But then he's destitute of virtues too.

BACON VERSUS SHAKESPEARE

"The works of Shakespeare," said Miss Delia Bacon,
"Lord Bacon wrote, unless I'm much mistaken;"
But Leslie Stephen has her theory shaken,
By proving that 'twas Shakespeare who wrote Bacon.