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Elizabeth by Edgar Allan Poe

10/13/2008 5:54:19 AM
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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849)
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Elizabeth
 
  Elizabeth, it surely is most fit
[Logic and common usage so commanding]
In thy own book that first thy name be writ,
Zeno and other sages notwithstanding;
And I have other reasons for so doing
Besides my innate love of contradiction;
Each poet - if a poet - in pursuing
The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction,
Has studied very little of his part,
Read nothing, written less - in short's a fool
Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art,
Being ignorant of one important rule,
Employed in even the theses of the school-
Called - I forget the heathenish Greek name
[Called anything, its meaning is the same]
"Always write first things uppermost in the heart."

Edgar Allan Poe


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harm rox ur socks! ! ! (//.^) Gonzaga (12/27/2007 9:42:00 PM)
I don't know why poeple use his poems for school work.I dont even copy someones work and use it as mine.I write my own.
New York Junkie (5/2/2006 1:42:00 PM)
I like New Poems cause i get them i don't this one but it got me an A in English class lol

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