The Poet's Canon
a lengthy poem by me...:-)
The Poet’s Canon
(in no particular order and incomplete)
Donne, Whitman, Blake and Keats
Lamb, Milton, Naruda and Yeats
Constable, Kipling, Cummings, and Bradsteet
Coleridge, Shelley, Peacock and Congreve.
Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson and Carew
Pope, Johnson, Pound and Angelou
Shakespeare, Dante, Scott and Hughes
Campbell, Melville, Burns and Seuss.
Crane, Eliot, Longfellow and Gray
Emerson, Frost, Nash and Thackeray
Auden, Owen, Brooke and Millay
Chaucer, Homer, Cowper and Lovelace.
Houseman, Bryant, Stevenson and Poe
Sidney, Blake, Lodge and Thoreau
Marvell, The Brownings, Ginsberg and Rowe
Chesterton, Lydgate, Addison and Marlowe.
Crabbe, Hood, Bierce and Thomas
Sandburg, Holmes and Anonymous.
Sophocles, Pericles, Spensser and Rosetti
Kerouac, Whittier, Joyce and Ferlinghetti.
This canon is far from complete
But perhaps one day it will include me.
©2005 Samantha W.