All Comments on 'To A Poetess'

in its language and note: why use "mine ear" when "my" works so well or is this Elizabethan? and this "The lyric nooks and crannies of your heart,

That every revelation may impart" is a great couplet but the image of nooks and crannies is horrendous. Oh well, you are the poet and I am just a plumber.

"Mine ear" is a convention in classical poetry because when read aloud, "my ear" tends to come out sounding like "meyer" because the first word ends with a vowel and the second begins with one. I wasn't trying to sound old-timey. As far as "nooks and crannies" are concerned, I guess that would be a matter of personal taste.