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# For Cyrano
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/for-cyrano/
- Published: 2022-08-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I once had the misfortune to attack (for as they say, in ignorance, there's bliss) none other than Messier de Bergerac and all over a trifle -- just a kiss.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: English Sonnet, Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I once had the misfortune to attack  
(for as they say, in ignorance, there's bliss)  
none other than Messier de Bergerac  
and all over a trifle -- just a kiss.

Oh, had I known the gentleman's sharp tongue,  
I surely would have been more circumspect;  
but as it was, equating me to dung  
was merely the beginning, I expect.

What does one do, when abject ridicule  
gets punished with an equitable turn?  
When seeking to paint someone else a fool  
gets paid back, and in kind? When will I learn?

Full of contrition, I shall thus compose  
the story of one beaten, by a nose.

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**Author notes:** Image from Amazon English sonnet with French themes