3 English Poems From Sizzons

Rule Britannia: DSS and Punters share a Hotel Chaotic meets well ordered Rough sleeper who recently peered from his bag Coping/not coping, One works, one's on the blag In the lift, they meet Interface like sandpaper Scraping cheek by jowl Rubbing each other up the wrong way Say, what's fair, what's foul? John Milton 1608-1674 His first wife Mary, a bride of just sixteen Left him three daughters, died in childbirth Katherine, his second, fared no better Died in childbed too, a doomed begetter His third wife, childless Elizabeth, Outlived him, a happier outcome Milton thought it gross to marry a widow Nothing but a virgin would do for him This man his fellow students called ‘The Lady' His light brown hair cascading to his shoulders He considered education wasted on women, An inferior sex. Ironically, his issue Were all of the female breed. Paradise Lost, indeed. Dean Swift Jonathon Swift was born in Dublin Jonathon Swift was very odd Jonathon Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels Now he's underneath the sod