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TO EDMUND GOSSE, WITH EIGHT VOLUMES OF THE AUTHOR'S WORK by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: EIGHT VOLUMES! - ALL WELL-POLISHED PROSE
Last Line: CROWN ME, MELPOMENE, MY DEAR!
Subject(s): AUTHORS & AUTHORSHIP;
'Exegi monumentum.'

EIGHT volumes! -- all well-polished prose
Or better verse (as some suppose);
In style more playful than severe;
Moral in tone (pour qui sait lire);
All written by my single pen,
And praised by some distinguished men,
But else not widely read, I fear: --

Crown me, MELPOMENE, my Dear!



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