I think I may
now
speak thus; for I have just published a poem, and am quite ignorant whether it is
likely
to be
liked
or not. I have hitherto heard little in its commendation, and no one can
downright
abuse it to one's face, except in print. It can't be good, or I should not have stumbled over the threshold, and blundered in my very title. But I began it with my heart full of ——, and my head of oriental
ities