IFEEL, if aught I ought to rhyme, I ought 'a' thought a longer time, And ought 'a' caught a higher sense, Of autocratic eloquence. I ought 'a' sought each haughty Muse That taught a thought I ought to use, And fought and fraught, and so devised A poem @3unmonotonized.@1 -- But since all this was vain, I thought I ought to simply say, -- I ought To thank you, as I ought to do, And ought to bow my best to you; And ought to trust not to intrude A rudely-wrought-up gratitude, But ought to smile, and ought to laugh, And ought to write -- an autograph. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BATTLE OF BRITAIN by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE POOR-HOUSE by SARA TEASDALE THE HEMLOCK by EMILY DICKINSON SAMSON AGONISTES by JOHN MILTON VAN ELSEN by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT PETER STUYVESANT'S NEW YEAR'S CALL, 1 JAN. 1661 by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN |