IFEEL, if aught I ought to rhyme, I ought 'a' thought a longer time, And ought 'a' caught a higher sense, Of autocratic eloquence. I ought 'a' sought each haughty Muse That taught a thought I ought to use, And fought and fraught, and so devised A poem @3unmonotonized.@1 -- But since all this was vain, I thought I ought to simply say, -- I ought To thank you, as I ought to do, And ought to bow my best to you; And ought to trust not to intrude A rudely-wrought-up gratitude, But ought to smile, and ought to laugh, And ought to write -- an autograph. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE by EMILY DICKINSON THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW AN OLD WOMAN (2) by MOTHER GOOSE CANADA by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT, FEBRUARY, 1885 by WALT WHITMAN DIRGE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 1 by JOHN BYROM |