Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A FRIEND ON HIS DESIRING ME TO PUBLISH, by MARY JULIA YOUNG First Line: With artless muse, and humble name Last Line: The artless muse, the humble name? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Publishers | ||||||||
With artless Muse, and humble name, Shall I solicit public fame? Shall I, who sing the pensive strain, To soothe a mind oppressed with pain, Or in the maze of fancy stray, To pass a cheerless hour away, Boldly to meet Apollo rise, And flutter in his native skies? Presumptuous, giddy, proud, elate, Forgetting Icarus' sad fate, High on my treacherous plumage soar, And fall, like him, to rise no more? Or, to assume a strain more common, Shall I, an unknown, untaught woman, Expose myself to dread Reviews, To paragraphs in daily news? To gall-dipp'd pens, that write one down, To Envy's hiss, and Critic's frown? To printers, editors, and devils, With a thousand other evils, That change the high-rais'd expectation To disappointment and vexation, And chase, abash'd, from public fame, The artless Muse, the humble name? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AS YOU LIKE IT by ALICE NOTLEY THE ASSOCIATE by LOUIS SIMPSON SUN THE BLOND OUT by ANNE WALDMAN THE DOUBLE STANDARD by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS SONNET by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ON CREECH THE BOOKSELLER by ROBERT BURNS A PUBLISHER TO HIS CLIENT by GEORGE GORDON BYRON TO MR. MURRAY (2) by GEORGE GORDON BYRON TO THE PUBLISHER OF 'THE MONTHLY REVIEW' by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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