The Poet Who Wrote These Verses Poem by Francis Duggan

The poet who wrote these verses is a stranger to fame
It is the first time ever that I've heard tell of his name
Yet in his songs to Nature I can feel the freshening breeze
And hear the songbirds singing on leafy sunlit trees.

The one who wrote these verses not seen as one of note
And the literary critics dismiss him as a very minor poet
And though he never will be seen as one of the poetic greats
His work to me doesn't seem inferior to Kipling's or to Yeats.

The one who wrote these verses they tend to under rate
His love of Mother Nature in beautiful words he celebrate
The quality in his verses not at all hard to see
And he's not a second rater or so 'twould seem to me.

The one who wrote these verses is a local poet they say
And he is one whose name won't live for forever and a day
Yet I quite like his verses his Nature songs are good
And in his rhymes I fancy I hear birds sing in the wood.