MY thanks, friends of the County Scientific Association, For this modest boulder, And its little tablet of bronze. Twice I tried to join your honored body, And was rejected, And when my little brochure On the intelligence of plants Began to attract attention You almost voted me in. After that I grew beyond the need of you And your recognition. Yet I do not reject your memorial stone, Seeing that I should, in so doing, Deprive you of honor to yourselves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 10 by EZRA POUND OUR GOOD PRESIDENT by PHOEBE CARY QUA CURSUM VENTUS by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH OUR SUSSEX DOWNS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES BINGEN ON THE RHINE by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |