• The south transept of Westminster Abbey
The place where poets love to be
Playwrights, writers and poets commemorated there
Our father Chaucer of Canterbury Tales had the first share
Since them a home to poets it became
Though in stones but with other graveyards not the same
Then came along Edmund Spenser of the Faerie Queene
The first epic of English literature unmeasured unseen
Where allegory and conceit he had it all
And biblical teachings above all
• There poets established a throne
Their tracks and footprints were never gone
John Donne and John Mansfield sleep there
Proudly they sit on poetry’s chair
Robert browning along his wife Elizabeth-Barrett browning
Sharing a mansion alongside Rudyard Kipling
Poets many more than the list couldn’t fit
There they lie and on poetry thrones they sit
Furthermore many are commemorated to have a place
For their touches no one can erase
• The Bronte family there so live
William Blake and butler their contributions give
Samuel butler though in life asked for bread
Instead got honored with a tombstone so bad
But his memory never does die
For in the poets’ corner he soars high
Herrick, Drayton, Dryden and Sydney fellow mates
Their poetry carved along the gates
Lewis carol, George Elliot, and Shakespeare too
They all share a paradise in literature all way through
• Wordsworth with his sonnets so sweet
He lies their alive beneath
John Keats as well as Thomas gray
Andrew Marvell there too does stay
Jane Austen has a mansion so divine
Oliver Goldsmith and Milton of Paradise Lost
With marble and granite their fame always in hoist
More poets have their home in this land
It’s called the poets’ corner and poetry land
• How an honor it will be
If we can just visit and see
And one day if life honors us to be
Just to be a part of that glee
In the poets’ corner to have a place
On earth to have such a grace
Then true poets we will be
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Author notes
Poets’ Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey due to the number of poets, playwrights, and writers now buried and commemorated there.
The first person to be interred there was Geoffrey Chaucer, whose burial in the abbey owed more to his position as Clerk of Works of the Palace of Westminster than to his fame as a writer. However, the erection of a magnificent tomb by Nicholas Brigham to Chaucer in the middle of the sixteenth century and the nearby burial of Edmund Spenser in 1599 started a tradition that is still upheld, although the area also houses the tombs of several Canons and Deans of the abbey. Also buried here is Thomas Parr, who it is said died at the age of 152 in 1635 after having seen ten sovereigns on the throne.
Burial or commemoration in the Abbey did not always occur at or soon after the time of death. Lord Byron, for example, whose poetry was admired but who maintained a scandalous lifestyle, died in 1824 but was not given a memorial until 1969. Even William Shakespeare, buried at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616, was not honoured with a monument until 1740 when one designed by William Kent was constructed in Poets' Corner.
Not all poets appreciated memorialisation and Samuel Wesley's epitaph for Samuel Butler, who supposedly died in poverty, continued Butler's satiric tone:
While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive,
No generous patron would a dinner give;
See him, when starv'd to death, and turn'd to dust,
Presented with a monumental bust.
The poet's fate is here in emblem shown,
He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone.
[edit] People buried in Poets' Corner
Robert Adam
Robert Browning
William Camden
Thomas Campbell
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Congreve
Abraham Cowley
William Davenant
Charles Dickens
Adam Fox
John Dryden
David Garrick
John Gay
George Friedrich Handel
Thomas Hardy
Dr Samuel Johnson
Ben Jonson
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Macaulay
John Masefield
Anne Oldfield
Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier
Thomas Parr
Matthew Prior
Charles de Saint-Évremond
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Edmund Spenser
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
[edit] People commemorated with memorials in Poets' Corner
Dame Peggy Ashcroft
Jane Austen
John Betjeman
William Blake
Charlotte Brontë
Anne Brontë
Emily Brontë
Rupert Brooke
Fanny Burney
Robert Burns
Samuel Butler
Lord Byron
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson/Lewis Carroll
Mary Ann Evans/George Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Oliver Goldsmith
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Thomas Gray
Robert Herrick
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Alfred Edward Housman
Henry James
John Keats
Jenny Lind
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
John Ruskin
Walter Scott
William Shakespeare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Makepeace Thackeray
Dylan Thomas
Anthony Trollope
Oscar Wilde
William Wordsworth
Noel Coward
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great! it's cool that you've written a poem about other poets! i like how you have included many famous names withing your poem. thanks for entering and good luck
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Excellent
So true it is though poets are true dreamers and phrophets of time our love of life shall be those for history to see and the excitment is in the writting for you and me
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Amazing!!
Wow what an amazing write and I have learned so much thanks
Amazing imagery throughout I felt like I was there with all these famous and amazing poets. Thanks for sharing. good luck in the contest my friend. 
Theresa
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Wow! This is a massive effort and I can see all the work it took to put this all together. Well done!
Love,
Amera♥
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Very nice. They would all be quite proud of you. I doubt I'll ever be buried there. Doesn't Bullwinkle have a poetry corner too? I'll probably be buried there.
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if i'll ever be buried somewhere of poetry . I'd rather want to be burried here IN AllPOETRY im sure they have a remembrance mansion thanks for readding:$
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very interesting
so much I have learned
you too are a great poet
so young and so talented .so were gonna need you for quite a long time.talent and heart so unique.
love you sweetie sooo...........
xxxxoxooooxox
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thankss for your comment auntielove you loadsss tooo
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