Epigrams. II. The Play of "King Lear" by William Watson. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Epigrams. II. The Play of “King Lear”

William Watson (1858–1935)


HERE Love the slain with Love the slayer lies;
Deep drowned are both in the same sunless pool.
Up from its depths that mirror thundering skies
Bubbles the wan mirth of the mirthless Fool.