Classic Poem

[To Thomas Moore, March 25, 1817. " Here are some versicles, which I made one sleepless night." The Missionary of the Andes is by Bowles; Ilderim , by H. Gally Knight; Margaret of Anjou , by Margaret Holford; Waterloo and other Poems , by J. Wedderburn Webster; Glenarvon, a Novel , by Lady Caroline Lamb.]

I READ the Christabel;
Very well:
I read the Missionary;
Pretty — very;
I tried at Ilderim ;
Ahem!
I read a sheet of Marg'ret of Anjou ;
Can you?
I turn'd a page of Webster's Waterloo ;
Pooh! pooh!
I look'd at Wordsworth's milk-white Rylstone Doe ;
Hillo!
I read Glenarvon , too, by Caro. Lamb —
God damn!