Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOLDSMITH TO THE AUTHOR, by GEORGE CRABBE


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First Line: You're in love with the muses! Well, grant it be true
Last Line: When pleased with his honours, remember his fate.
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774); Poetry & Poets


YOU'RE in love with the Muses! Well, grant it be true,
When, good Sir, were the Muses enamour'd of you?
Read first, -- if my lectures your fancy delight, --
Your taste is diseased: -- can your cure be to write?
You suppose you're a genius, that ought to engage
The attention of wits, and the smiles of the age:
Would the wits of the age their opinion make known,
Why -- every man thinks just the same of his own.
You imagine that Pope -- but yourself you beguile --
Would have wrote the same things, had he chose the same style.
Delude not yourself with so fruitless a hope, --
Had he chose the same style, he had never been Pope.
You think of my muse with a friendly regard,
And rejoice in her author's esteem and reward:
But let not his glory your spirits elate,
When pleased with his honours, remember his fate.





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