O precious code, volume, tome, Book, writing, compilation, work, Attend the while I pen a pome, A jest, a jape, a quip, a quirk. For I would pen, engross, indite, Transcribe, set forth, compose, address, Record, submit -- yea, even write An ode, an elegy to bless -- To bless, set store by, celebrate, Approve, esteem, endow with soul, Commend, acclaim, appreciate, Immortalize, laud, praise, extol Thy merit, goodness, value, worth, Expedience, utility -- O manna, honey, salt of the earth, I sing, I chant, I worship thee! How could I manage, live, exist, Obtain, produce, be real, prevail, Be present in the flesh, subsist, Have place, become, breathe or inhale, Without thy help, recruit, support, Opitulation, furtherance, Assistance, rescue, aid, resort, Favor, sustension and advance? Alack! Alack! and well-a-day! My case would then be dour and sad, Likewise distressing, dismal, gray, Pathetic, mournful, dreary, bad. Though I could keep this up all day, This lyric, elegiac song, Meseems hath come the time to say Farewell! Adieu! Good-by! So long! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AMERICAN NAMES by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET BATTLE OF THE BALTIC by THOMAS CAMPBELL GERONTION by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT RIDDLE ON THE LETTER H (1) by CATHERINE MARIA FANSHAWE LOVE'S RESURRECTION DAY by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |