Possible Clues:

• All against as bit of poetry
• Might Poe have had a try not to have been in the agreement?
• A few lines expressing hostility
• Reluctant Irish support for the old bible
• Not at all enthusiastic about poetry
• Not willing to produce a few lines
• Disinclined - as ever (anag)
• Objecting
• Not wanting to have an excerpt from the Bible?
• Reluctant to say 'step', oddly