Poems Consisting Of Essays, Lyric, Elegiac, &c. By Thomas Dermody. Written between the 13th and 16th Year of his Age |
THE POET's INVENTORY. |
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THE POET's INVENTORY.
A broken stool, two legs demolish'd,A board, by constant friction polish'd;
A bottle-neck, for ink or candle;
A batter'd jug, without a handle;
A dozen pens, the worse for scribbling;
A trap to keep the mice from nibbling;
A box for coals, the bottom out;
A teapot, lacking top and spout;
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A screen, which wants a woundy pieceing;
A bed, without a sheet, or blanket;
A pint of beer, if no one drank it;
A Fielding's works, volume the second;
And thus the whole estate is reckon'd.
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