Short Modern English Poems
Short Modern English Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Modern English by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Modern English by length and keyword.
The most common sound
in modern English language
we hear constantly.
Short e and a vowel sounds
Found in many English words
Edmund Spenser wrote the Faerie Queen*
an allegory satire was his scene
A premier poet of Modern English renown
ever serious ,never the clown
*Book one https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012901803
A Germanic Language
Second most spoken in the world
Angles
Saxons
Jutes
From Angles were Engles
Whose language was Englisc
Thus from Europe
ENGLISH was born!
Traveling through inscriptions
Alphabets
Borrowed words
In Norms
In French
Named Old English
Middle English
Modern English
And now with many
Descendants
English in the Pacific
by whaling ships and colonizers
Official language of the islands
Meshed with island vocabulary
English has become a legend in our vocabulary