[A Preface and a Piracy] Prologue Of borrow'd plumes I take the sin, My extracts will apply To some few silly songs which in These pages scatter'd lie. The words are Edgar Allan Poe's, As any man may see, But what a POE-t wrote in prose, Shall make blank verse for me. Epilogue And now that mshake your head sadly, Yet this much you'll say for my verse, I've written of old something badly, But written anew something worse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WANTS OF MAN by JOHN QUINCY ADAMS EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 2. DAISY'S SONG by JOHN KEATS SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: A LITANY IN TIME OF PLAGUE by THOMAS NASHE SNOWBOUND by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER TO THE DAISY (3) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |