The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/Versicles

by George Gordon Byron

VERSICLES.

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.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 87.]

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.]