Saturday 2 October 2010

Elizabeth by Edgar Allen Poe...

Elizabeth, it surely is most fit
[Logic and common usage so commanding]
In thy own book that first thy name be writ,
Zeno and other sages notwithstanding;
And I have other reasons for so doing
Besides my innate love of contradiction;
Each poet - if a poet - in pursuing
The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction,
Has studied very little of his part,
Read nothing, written less - in short's a fool
Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art,
Being ignorant of one important rule,
Employed in even the theses of the school-
Called - I forget the heathenish Greek name
[Called anything, its meaning is the same]
"Always write first things uppermost in the heart."

A poem of namesake written for Egdar Allen Poe's cousin Elizabeth Rebecca. (acrostic)
.... not my favourite but hey...

2 comments:

  1. he married one of his cousing who was like 13 years old! im doing him in english.

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  2. ahh but it was a long time ago... and probably loveless. ... and everyone married then you were about to die after all. nearly everyoe h knew ded of tb.
    he loved lenore..xxx

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