The Great John Greenleaf Whittier Poem by Francis Duggan

Among the best poets of the U S of A
His great poems on Maud Muller and Barbara Frietchie are living today
Though their creator long at rest amongst the forever gone
The legends he gave life to are today living on

The great John Greenleaf Whittier was a poet supreme
In his own lifetime one held in high esteem
He brought to the World such marvelous rhyme
His poems have lived on through the decades of time

I first read some of his poems when i was a schoolboy
And reading them today i thoroughly enjoy
His poems on people and Nature with the best compare
The Whittiers of the World are and were always rare

A poet of the masses of him one can say
With words he was one who did have a way
Among the great poets of the U S his place he does retain
And the fans of his poetry as fans do remain.