Elizabeth by Edgar Allan Poe — Read

Elizabeth -- it surely is most fit / [Logic and common usage so commanding]

In thy own book that first thy name be writ, / Zeno4 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. "