O precious code, volume, tome, Book, writing, compilation, work, Attend the while I pen a pome, A jest, a jape, a quip, a quirk. For I would pen, engross, indite, Transcribe, set forth, compose, address, Record, submit -- yea, even write An ode, an elegy to bless -- To bless, set store by, celebrate, Approve, esteem, endow with soul, Commend, acclaim, appreciate, Immortalize, laud, praise, extol Thy merit, goodness, value, worth, Expedience, utility -- O manna, honey, salt of the earth, I sing, I chant, I worship thee! How could I manage, live, exist, Obtain, produce, be real, prevail, Be present in the flesh, subsist, Have place, become, breathe or inhale, Without thy help, recruit, support, Opitulation, furtherance, Assistance, rescue, aid, resort, Favor, sustension and advance? Alack! Alack! and well-a-day! My case would then be dour and sad, Likewise distressing, dismal, gray, Pathetic, mournful, dreary, bad. Though I could keep this up all day, This lyric, elegiac song, Meseems hath come the time to say Farewell! Adieu! Good-by! So long! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A HYMN [TO THE NAME AND] IN HONOR OF SAINT TERESA by RICHARD CRASHAW ROME. AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY by THOMAS HARDY PENMAEN POOL by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS I AM NOT YOURS by SARA TEASDALE PALINODE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |