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TO MARGARET
| Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt | } Milton Par. Lost. Bk. I |
| From the pure well of Beauty undefiled? | } Somebody |
| So banished from true wisdom to prefer | } Cowper's Task, Book I |
| Such squalid wit to honourable rhyme? | |
| To write? To scribble? Nonsense and no more? | } Shakespeare |
| I will not write upon this argument | } do.Troilus & Cressida |
| To write is human — not to write divine. | } Pope Essay on Man |
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Notes:
To the right of each line, Poe gives the source from which it was adapted. Here, we have been forced to give multiple small gull brackets, while Poe draws one large gull bracket to divide this column from the text. The reference of Cowper applies to the line marked and the following one.
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[S:1 - MS, 1827] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Poems - To Margaret (Text-01)