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...
he married one of his cousing who was like 13 years old! im doing him in english.
ReplyDeleteahh 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.
ReplyDeletehe loved lenore..xxx