On Felicia Hemans

She was forty one when she died but her name lives on as a classic poet In the literary world of today she remains as one worthy of note In the early nineteenth century at a time when women were kept down The literary critics her did celebrate and her poems won her Worldwide renown Felicia Hemans was a poetic great and though she passed on in her prime Some of her poems seen as classics today they have survived the test of time Her success offered many women writers at the time hope that her they might emulate That one day like her they would be seen as writers for to celebrate In her life a poetic great a legend around her had grown Her poems read and recited today she is in a class of her own Her poems were of people and life and Nature's praises she did sing She penned poems that live on today such as Casabianca and The Voice Of The Spring She died at forty one in eighteen thirty five and poems of beauty she did write Her works are so easy to read and always a joy to recite.