Punch, June 1845. (This parody was accompanied by a portrait of Mr. Benjamin Disraeli).


A FEW WORDS ON POETS IN GENERAL, AND ONE IN PARTICULAR.

BY THE GHOST OF T— H—D.

"What's in a name?"—Shakespeare.

I.

By different names were Poets call'd

In different climes and times;

The Welsh and Irish call'd him Bard,

Who was confined to rhymes.