On Moore's last Operatic Farce, or Farcical Opera

GOOD plays are scarce,
So Moore writes farce:
The poet's fame grows brittle—
We knew before
That Little's Moore,
But now't is Moore that's little.

September 14, 1811.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 295 (note).]

FOOTNOTES:

Is fame like his so brittle?—[MS.]