Fourfootnote for "Modern Love"
POEMS
by CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
I LOVE to think
How furious George Meredith was
When he sat down
In the belvedere on Box Hill
To write a sonnet.
No one else was so persistent about
sonnets
As to stretch them to 16 lines.
How furious George Meredith was
When he sat down
In the belvedere on Box Hill
To write a sonnet.
No one else was so persistent about
sonnets
As to stretch them to 16 lines.
But when the famous English critic
Told us that Meredith was infatuated
with dachshunds
It was Florida Weisscracker
(The poet of the Great Dismal Swamp)
Who screamed: Now I know
Why his sonnets were two lines too
long.
Told us that Meredith was infatuated
with dachshunds
It was Florida Weisscracker
(The poet of the Great Dismal Swamp)
Who screamed: Now I know
Why his sonnets were two lines too
long.
