Thy verse is 'sad' enough, no doubt: <br />A devilish deal more sad than witty! <br />Why we should weep I can't find out, <br />Unless for thee we weep in pity. <br /> <br />Yet there is one I pity more; <br />And much, alas! I think he needs it; <br />For he, I'm sure, will suffer sore, <br />Who, to his own misfortune, reads it. <br /> <br />Thy rhymes, without the aid of magic, <br />May once be read - but never after: <br />Yet their effect's by no means tragic, <br />Although by far too dull for laughter. <br /> <br />But would you make our bosoms bleed, <br />And of no common pang complain - <br />If you would make us weep indeed, <br />Tell us, you'll read them o'er again. <br /> <br />March 8, 1807<br /><br />George Gordon Byron<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-author-of-a-sonnet-beginning/
