To well deserve the bliss it brings,
With so many to thank for their art,
They gave words and ideas their wings.
For those who find joy in verse and rhyme
Picking favourites is based on taste
And none should be dismissed in haste.
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Blake has blessed us with his aphorisms,
With art so rich in mysticisms.
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Browning’s dramatic monologues so entertaining,
With high praise and low complaining.
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Byron, a baron of the Romantic Movement,
With love poems needing no improvement.
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Carroll gave us Alice’s story,
With imagination mandatory.
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Frost with his insight into rural life,
With nature’s stories running rife.
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Hardy from the naturalist movement,
Using realistic style,
Created lifelike images that just beguile.
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Kipling the reporter telling soldiering stories,
With tales of man’s ruins and glories.
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Poe providing the macabre,
Full of mystery;
Battling the woes of his personal history.
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Tennyson, Poet Laureate in Victoria’s reign,
With an abundance of verse
In mythological vein.
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Wordsworth, the romantic poet with ballads galore;
His lyrical themes with such great rapport.
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Wilde, with trials as a social misfit;
An Anglo-Irishman with a cutting wit.
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Poets are precious
Without ranking assigned.
Let us be well deserving
Of what they leave behind.
Amen!