Poem by Matthew Prior

Epigram («YES, every poet is a fool»)

YES, every poet is a fool:	
  By demonstration Ned can show it:	
Happy, could Ned’s inverted rule	
  Prove every fool to be a poet.

1. Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture, at Sir Godfrey Kneller's
2. To the Author of the Foregoing Pastoral - (Love and Friendship)
3. Phyllis's Age
4. A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When a Child
5. Cupid Mistaken

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