To hook the reader, you, John Murray, Have publish'd Anjou's Margaret, Which won't be sold off in a hurry (At least, it has not been as yet); And then, still further to bewilder 'em, Without remorse you set up Ilderim; So mind you don't get into debt, Because as how, if you should fail, These books would be but baddish bail. And mind you do not let escape These rhymes to Morning Post or Perry, Which would be very treacherous -- very, And get me into such a scrape! For, firstly, I should have to sally, All in my little boat, against a Galley, And, should I chance to slay the Assyrian wight, Have next to combat with the female knight. And prick'd to death expire upon her needle, A sort of end which I should take indeed ill! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OCTAVES: 16 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON SELF-INTERROGATION by EMILY JANE BRONTE ADDRESS TO A HAGGIS by ROBERT BURNS THE FACTORY; 'TIS AN ACCURSED THING! by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON TROY TOWN by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI RENCONTRE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH SARGENT'S PORTRAIT OF EDWIN BOOTH AT THE PLAYERS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |