Elizabeth By Edgar Ellen Poe

Elizabeth, it surely is most fit
In thy own book that first thy name be wit,
Zeno and other sages notwithstanding;
And i have other reasons for so doing
Besides my innate love of Contradiction;
Each piet- if a poet- in pursuing
The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction,
Has studied very little of his part,
Read nothing, written less-in short's a fool
Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art,
Being ignorant of one important rule,
Employed in even the theses of the school-
Called- I forget the heathenish Greek name
'Always write first things uppermost in the heart'





Edgar Allen Poe was writing about his love for Elizabeth. He was talking about how since he loved her so much that she was at the top of his heart. since she was up at the top, Edgar had this feeling and need to write about her first. since she is first then she will always and forever be with him, even in the holy book by his name.