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. A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When a Child
2. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
3. A Lover's Anger
4. Fatal Love
5. Partial Fame

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