WHY should my pen aspire so high a strain, A verse to guide, to guide a verse unfit? Are they the fittest voices to complain? Admit they be, they're for a riper wit; Yet you who these unpolisht lines shall read, Deride them not, they from distraction came; Let that suffice, my love alone shall plead For their defect, and shall excuse the same: Excuse the same, for what from love doth spring, To lovers only resolution bring. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CONTRA MORTEM: THE STONE by HAYDEN CARRUTH SPRING NOTES FROM ROBIN HILL by HAYDEN CARRUTH WOMAN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 14 by JAMES JOYCE A MENDOCINO MEMORY by EDWIN MARKHAM TWO SONNETS: 1 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |