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George Gordon Byron - To The Author Of A Sonnet, Beginning, `"Sad Is My Verse," You Say, "And Yet No Tear"`
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Thy verse is `sad` enough, no doubt:
   A devilish deal more sad than witty!
Why we should weep I can`t find out,
   Unless for thee we weep in pity.

Yet there is one I pity more; 
   And much, alas! I think he needs it;
For he, I`m sure, will suffer sore,
   Who, to his own misfortune, reads it.

Thy rhymes, without the aid of magic,
   May once be read - but never after:
Yet their effect`s by no means tragic,
   Although by far too dull for laughter.

But would you make our bosoms bleed,
   And of no common pang complain -
If you would make us weep indeed,
   Tell us, you`ll read them o`er again.

March 8, 1807
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