This is the closing lines from a very long romantic poem. Can you name poem and poet?


"Go, little book, from this my solitude!
I cast thee on the waters -- go thy ways!
And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
The world will find thee after many days."
When Southey's read, and Wordsworth understood,
I can't help putting in my claim to praise --
The four first rhymes are Southey's every line:
For God's sake, reader! take them not for mine.

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09-15-03, 12:42 AM
stanbee
Robert Southey

09-15-03, 01:05 AM
Patricia
No, try again.

09-15-03, 07:49 PM
FredPuli
That seems the kind of thing that Browning might have written. He fell out with such people. He was particularly fond of unusual rhyme schemes too, so that would fit.

09-15-03, 09:36 PM
Patricia
No,sorry, try again.

09-15-03, 10:46 PM
methos
Byron, from Don Juan

(I think the stanbee's confusion, by the way, is because the part in quotes was written by Southey)

09-16-03, 02:39 PM
Patricia
Correct. Thanks for the answer. Pat

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