From Bard To Verse

Whether April is sweet or full of harsh travails It kindly gave birth to our Canterbury Tales Much later came The Wasteland with different voices, A fractured piece in which the whole world rejoices. In Shakespeare we see the Colossus of drama A genre in which he perfected the grammar. Just judge his variety of play The master of all he did survey. Sharp were the phrases with which Bacon did play His subjects sculpted in every essay Rich as a river in spate wrote Lamb His roast pig showed that he was no ham. In Wordsworth we revere the poet romantic While Arnold is ever the epic pedantic On daffodils William is so handsome As Matthew ground out Sohrab And Rustum What of Dickens?Could we dare to say more With his rich feast of characters galore Whereas Joyce's magnum opus Ulysses Richly released his literary juices Let us not forget Lear so chimeric He so fond of a witty limerick With words he so much loved to have fun Laughter for each and everyone. So many more deserve a mention Milton,Burns and Alfred Lord Tennyson Shelley,Keats and Coleridge too All favourites who deserve their due. So whether we go from bard to verse Our writers we oft fondly rehearse Our nation's genius so much resembles the rose We must not forget our proud poetry and prose.