232 - Some English names that sing of fame's renown

Some English names that sing of fame’s renown:
Shakespeare and Pope, so peerless with the pen;
Newton and Milton’s apples all fall down;
Breakspear, the pope whose name was Adrian.
St Patrick, who took that trip to Ireland;
Charles Darwin’s Beagle blown by far wind’s moan;
Trevithick, that prolific railwayman;
Charles Dickens, one of fiction’s finest known.
Old Churchill virtually saved us alone;
Elizabeth, till death, the virgin crown;
Poor Tyndale dwindled to a cinder’s end;
Henry the Fifth that swift thief of French throne;
The Venerable Bede, lost history found;
A memorable list, women and men.
Tue 24 Apr 2007