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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A MAGAZINE SONNET, by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES
First Line: Scorn not the sonnet,' though its strength be sapped
Last Line: Had otherwise been covered with a hundred.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: Scorn not the sonnet,' though its strength be sapped
Last Line: Had otherwise been covered with a hundred.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
"SCORN not the sonnet," though its strength be sapped,
Nor say malignant its inventor blundered;
The corpse that here in fourteen lines is wrapped
Had otherwise been covered with a hundred.
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