To Author of a Sonnet Beginning 'Sad is my verse,' you say 'and yet no tear'

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Title:     To Author of a Sonnet Beginning 'Sad is my verse,' you say 'and yet no tear'
Author: Lord Byron [More Titles by Byron]

To the Author of a Sonnet Beginning "'Sad is my verse,' you say, 'and yet no tear'"

1.

Thy verse is "sad" enough, no doubt:
A devilish deal more sad than witty!
Why we should weep I can't find out,
Unless for _thee_ we weep in pity.


2.

Yet there is one I pity more;
And much, alas! I think he needs it:
For he, I'm sure, will suffer sore,
Who, to his own misfortune, reads it.


3.

Thy rhymes, without the aid of magic,
May _once_ be read--but never after:
Yet their effect's by no means tragic,
Although by far too dull for laughter.


4.

But would you make our bosoms bleed,
And of no common pang complain--
If you would make us weep indeed,
Tell us, you'll read them o'er again.


March 8, 1807.

-THE END-
Lord Byron's poem: To the Author of a Sonnet Beginning "'Sad is my verse,' you say, 'and yet no tear"

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