Explore "The Author to his Hostess. (an Open Letter)" by Harry Graham on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
[Very few English men of letters enjoy a desirable social / position. To be sure, they are frequently invited to functions, / where they are treated with insistent affability by persons / belonging to the higher classes; but the sort of position to be / obtained in this way is insecure, and unpleasant to any save / those of adamantine cheek. -- _Current Magazine._]
Dear Lady, -- When you bade me come / To grace your crowded "Kettledrum," / And mingle in the best society; / When Melba sang, and Elman played,