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akashiver ([personal profile] akashiver) wrote2008-04-24 12:30 pm
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Oddest 18C poem titles so far

TO THE AUTHOR OF A DULL EPIGRAM.
ON AN INFLAMMATION IN A LADY's EYE.
HOW TO WRITE ONE's OWN LIFE.

Also, an "Ode to the Water Pumps at Bath." Proving that, even in an era before magnetic poetry, you really could write a poem about anything.

[identity profile] drydem.livejournal.com 2008-04-24 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd be happy if the first one read "sod off, ye daft prat"

[identity profile] akashiver.livejournal.com 2008-04-25 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I think it did.