I Do Love The Music In Old Fashioned Rhyme

I do love the music in old fashioned rhyme
The poetry some say is of another time
The poetry that is born of music and song
The poetry that to people who love rhyme belong.

The poets such as Mangan and Burns and Clare
And Masefield, Service and Neilson their type nowadays rare
And Dennis, Kendall and Hemans and Browning the poet
And his wife Elizabeth Barrett one worthy of note.

Lawson, Paterson and Longfellow masters of the wordsmith trade
Of them one can say poets are born not made
And Tennyson, Davies and Thompson and Kipling and Yeats
By their rhymes are remembered these poetic greats.

You say free verse is best well many might agree
But old fashioned rhyme it will surely do me
And am I not right to say we’d be spiritually poor
Without poets such as French and Foster and Tom Moore.