<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415917" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballade of the Incompetent Ballade-Monger</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not ambitious at all: <br>I am not a poet, I know<br>(Though I do love to see a mere scrawl<br>To order and symmetry grow).<br>My muse is uncertain and slow,<br>I am not expert with my tools,<br>I lack the poetic argot:<br>But I hope I have kept to the rules.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When your brain is undoubtedly small,<br>'Tis hard, sir, to write in a row,<br>Some five or six rhymes to Nepaul,<br>And more than a dozen to Joe:<br>The metre is easier though,<br>Three rhymes are sufficient for 'ghouls,'<br>My lines are deficient in go,<br>But I hope I have kept to the rules.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unable to fly let me crawl,<br>Your patronage kindly bestow:<br>I am not the author of Saul,<br>I am not Voltaire or Rousseau:<br>I am not desirous, oh no!<br>To rise from the ranks of the fools,<br>To shine with Gosse, Dobson and Co.:<br>But I hope I have kept to the rules.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Sir, though my language is low,<br>Let me dip in Pierian pools:<br>My verses are only so so,<br>But I hope I have kept to the rules.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Kenneth+Stephen">James Kenneth Stephen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415917" data-title="The Ballade of the Incompetent Ballade-Monger de James Kenneth Stephen" data-description="I am not ambitious at all: I am not a poet, I know (Though I do love to see a mere scrawl To order and symmetry grow). My muse is uncertain and slow, I am not expert with my tools, I lack the poetic argot: But I hope I have kept to the rules. Wh..."></div> </div> </div>

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