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Saturday, March 11, 2006

Very Bad Poetry : )


From a book entitled Very Bad Poetry. Here for you,

The Worst Tribute to a Great Poet

Many bad poets have paid tribute to the greats of their profession, usually in appropriately atrocious verse. Shelley is the victim in the lines below.

from English Poets
by
James McIntyre

Shelley

We have scarely time to tell thee
Of the strange and gifted Shelley,
Kind hearted man, but ill-fated,
So youthful drowned and cremated.