Elizabeth -- it surely is most fit (Logic and common usage so commanding) In thy own book that @3first@1 thy name be writ, Zeno and other sages notwithstanding; And @3I@1 have other reasons for so doing Besides my innate love of contradiction; Each poet -- @3if@1 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 @3first@1 things uppermost in the heart." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE RIVER CHARLES by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN by WALT WHITMAN FATHERHOOD by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING WAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN TRANSFIGURATION by MARGIE B. BOSWELL GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 4. EARLY LOVES by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE SUPREME GIFT by DAISY DEAN BUTLER FOR A PICTURE WHERE A QUEEN LAMENTS OVER THE TOMB OF A SLAIN KNIGHT by THOMAS CAREW |