Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ELIZABETH, by EDGAR ALLAN POE


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First Line: Elizabeth - it surely is most fit
Last Line: "always write first things uppermost in the heart."


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 any thing, its meaning is the same)
"Always write first things uppermost in the heart."





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