George Crabbe

He wrote about the England of the times 'The Borough and the Village and Peter Grimes' And he wrote about the hardships the outcasts did endure George Crabbe the poet of the English poor. He lived when Robert Burns rose to fame And Oliver Goldsmith became a household name When Gray and Wordsworth their great verses wrote The poor were championed by George Crabbe the poet. Had he not written for the poor down trodden race His verse might be placed in a higher place He might have written of dashing knight and king But of the poor alone he chose to sing. Some say the poems of Crabbe were born of tears And his verses are not for the wealthier's ears And though the wealthy of the poor don't wish to hear The poet Crabbe to his feelings was sincere. He lived when the great poets were in their prime And to write for England's poor his only crime And George Crabbe long dead but we still have his rhyme And still his verses stand the test of time.