The poem
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.
On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams
163Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
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