Shakespeare

A literary giant on God’s earth

Fortune smiled on his birth

Sublime poetry in blank verse

Enchanting ’n elegantly terse

Histories penned in lofty style

Comedies spark a subtle smile

Tragedies also worth the while

Speak volumes of a mind fertile

Wordplay, humour and irony

Paradox, allusion and Imagery

So novel and swashbuckling

Ecstatic stuff by this earthling

Sonnets composed with finesse

Feelings like fountains effervesce

The soul enthralled ’n bewitched

In utter awe not a brow twitched

The art of writing lay hid in the night

God said: Let William be ’n all was light

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