Oldest English poem was Cadmon’s song
Then cam Robin Hood’s Merry Men’s throng
Next cam Beowulf, triumphant with might
Marie de France and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Next came the Middle English writer Geoffrey Chaucer
En suite, Thomas Mallory, King Arthur’s author
Elizabethan Age brought The Faerie Queen
by Edmund Spenser, when he came on the scene
Scary Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Inspired by Ben Johnson, Donne and Aemelia Lanyer
Sandwiched in between were Shakespeare’s mighty works
Bringing English literature vast prolific perks
Came the Restoration and Marvell’s lover’s hopes
Milton, Dryden, Swift and Alexander Pope
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
led the way to Romanticism’s swell
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Keats
Shelley, Burns and Tennyson so neat
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the way to go
Chilling as The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
Great ladies now emerge, both, Dickenson and Browning
And all those Bronte sisters, romantic stories crowning
There’s Cooper, daunting Dickens, Emerson, Thoreau
Hawthorne, Victor Hugo - Les Mis is quite a show
English lit forever spinning in my head
Bursting in my brain with stories I have read
Authors so brilliant, each handing us a rose
Revealing in their hearts, their poetry and prose
So I guess it's my turn to "Spill the beans"
on all my adventures, wishes and dreamsand if no one likes this "bread" or "road" that I take, all I can say is,
"Let them eat cake."
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