Explore "The Scarlet Gown: THE BANISHED BEJANT FROM THE UNPUBLISHED REMAINS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE" by Robert Fuller Murray on Textopian.
How many the troubles that wait / On mortals! -- especially those / Who endeavour in eloquent prose / To expound their views, and orate.
Did you ever attempt to speak / When you hadn't a word to say? / Did you find that it wouldn't pay, / And subside, feeling dreadfully weak?