Edmund Poems - Poems about Edmund

Sir Edmund Clerihew Bentley passed away, so he sent me. He wrote of gumshoe detectives, and eschewed dumb invectives. ...

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Skillary Spillary Sir Edmund Hillary Climber, Philanthropist First up Mount Everest Liked to keep bees New Zealand juvenile High-altitudinal Knighted in fifty three Maintained humility Loved Nepalese...

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“Superior, they said, never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early” – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Balladeer, from The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald A song by Gordon Lightfoot I would hear in 1976, my newborn daughter’s year. S S Edmund Fitgerald was the ship, and Lightfoot’s song described its final trip. I thought that Lightfoot had made up...

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Lake Superior, Gitche Gumee November winds, fear starts boiling. The ship creaks, groans, twists, water spumy; Thoughts of loved ones waiting on shore pushed aside. Evil eye of the storm is coiling And springs to release twenty-nine souls into the debris. The church bell twenty-nine times is tolling....

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As a tribute to Sir Edmund Clerihew Bentley I now write this unique form- consequently Two rhyming couplets, with line lengths unequal I'll tribute myself...in my clerihew sequel Clerihew Poetry Contest Sponsor: Regina McIntosh 12/18/20...

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The Great Lakes Engineering Works built a new boat S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald, t'would soon be afloat The people that owned her needed a name President of the company was given that fame. One of the largest boats to sail on the Great Lakes Was a solidly built boat and had what it takes September twenty fourth nineteen fifty and eight Was...

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Eddie for short Leaving you on my island home Down in the tropics where it always shine I left you to climb the heights alone Time flew while I was gone Yet many things have stayed the same Stirring up memories like a bowl of granny’s pigeon soup You always treated me like your kin You picked up the pieces My father left behind ...

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In his youth he became an Anglican deacon, but the doubts about Protestantism beset him and after further study, he returned to Catholicism. Young Jesuit priest, arrested by priest hunters in Anglican England for teaching about the Christ. He was convicted of high treason and executed in England, which had been Catholic for a 1000 of years, later religious difficulties arose. Priest Campion said before...

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke 1795. Elizabeth alexander 15/3/2016 this deserves to be resurrected....

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O' lovely maid, in solitaire so fair of cheek and silken hair A wistful look upon her face It matters not that she is late This Sunday morning at the gate she halts as if to hesitate and looks around with hopeful chance as if to take a second glance for someone whom we cannot see who stands in shadows out of view to...

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Edmund Clerihew-Bently, In science class, listened intently, Wrote biographies in four short lines, Invented his own poetic designs....

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Edmund becomes the code Traversing he's a node He spies the bug A recursive slug Triumphant to his abode...

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