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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BORROWED PLUMES, by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON Poet's Biography
First Line: Of borrowed plumes I take the sin
Last Line: But written anew something worse.
First Line: Of borrowed plumes I take the sin
Last Line: But written anew something worse.
[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.
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