dots-menu
×

Home  »  Poems of Places An Anthology in 31 Volumes  »  The Bust of Shakespeare

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.

Stratford-on-Avon

The Bust of Shakespeare

By Album at Stratford, Trinity Church

STRANGER, to whom this monument is shown,

Invoke the poet’s curses on Malone,

Whose meddling zeal his barb’rous taste displays,

And daubs his tombstone, as he marred his plays.