My Monument + 

It is pleasant to think, as I’m watching my ink + 

A-drying along my paper, + 

That a monument fine will surely be mine + 

When death has extinguished my taper. + 

From each pitiless scribe of the critic tribe + 

Purged clean of all sentiments narrow, + 

A pebble will mark his respect for the stark + 

Stiff body that’s under the barrow. + 

Thus stone upon stone by reviewers thrown, + 

Will make my celebrity deathless. + 

O, I wish I could think, as I gaze at my ink, + 

They’d wait till my carcass is breathless. + 