Writing Poetry Under Difficulties.
Soene : A young poetesa engaged in writing an impassioned poem. Husband h Uunl ing in an uneympathising attitude, emUavouriug to make himself heard : Poetess: "'Tell me, my heart, whence sprtngs tliie bitter tear V " iJuaban>!; "Ive asked you for my slippers twice, my dear." Pjeless (in provoked prose) : " Oh, they're somewhere, Charles ; do look for them yourself, and let me write I ' Tell me, my heart, whence springs this bitter tear?' " Husband : " I tell you what, Jane, bacon's acaroe this year." Poetess (angrily): "Ob, Charles, I wiah you would save your bacon, and let me write. You keep putting the rhyme out of my head." Husband (pathetically): "Ah, my dear, I wiah I could do that." Poetesa: '"Tell me, my heart, whence springs this bitter tear ? ' " One of the children coughs violently in bed. Husband (distractedly): " Poor Tommy's gos the whooping-cough, I fear." Poetess (throwing down her pen in desperation): "Well, I wish you were all anywhere but here !"
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 9, Issue 642, 11 February 1887, Page 7
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163Writing Poetry Under Difficulties. Mataura Ensign, Volume 9, Issue 642, 11 February 1887, Page 7
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