Versos English Edgar Allan Poe To Margaret

English poem

To Margaret

by (1809–1849)

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Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt From the pure well of Beauty undefiled? So banish from true wisdom to prefer Such squalid wit to honourable rhyme? To write? To scribble? Nonsense and no more? I will not write upon this argument To write is human -- not to write divine.