“’Twas one of my feats.”
Who shot the arrow?
“The poet-priest Milman
(So ready to kill man),
Or Southey, or Barrow.”
Lord Byron. July, 1821.
The following imitation of two Odes by John Keats is taken from The Diversions of the Echo Club, by Bayard Taylor:—
Ode on a Jar of Pickles.
I.
A sweet, acidulous, down-reaching thrill