An Acrostic Against Acrostics

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Title:     An Acrostic Against Acrostics
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

[_To Edward Hogg_]

Envy not the wretched Poet
Doomed to pen these teasing strains,
Wit so cramped, ah, who can show it,
Are the trifles worth the pains.
Rhyme compared with this were easy,
Double Rhymes may not displease ye.

Homer, Horace sly and caustic,
Owed no fame to vile acrostic.
G's, I am sure, the Readers choked with,
Good men's names must not be joked with.

[The end]
Charles Lamb's poem: Acrostic Against Acrostics

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