Poems ✍️
  07.07.2025
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Author: Robert Burns

On Elphinstone's Translation Of Martial's Epigrams

O THOU whom Poetry abhors,
Whom Prose has turnèd out of doors,
Heard'st thou yon groan?—proceed no further,
'Twas laurel'd Martial calling murther.


  Satire mockery Disdain Rejection

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