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A PIG’S-EYE VIEW OF LITERATURE
The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron
BYRON and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of lyrical treats.
The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls,
And Keats never was a descendant of earls,
And Byron walked out with a number of girls,
But it didn’t impair the poetical feats
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley and Keats.
Oscar Wilde
IF, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
THE pure and worthy Mrs. Stowe
Is one we all are proud to know
As mother, wife, and authoress,—
Thank God I am content with less!
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