The poets are lost! The poets are lost! <br />Have we no Shakespeare, have we no Frost? <br /> <br />Who is the voice of the poets today? <br />Who now swings on birches by untrodden ways? <br /> <br />Where is the metaphor? Where is the rhyme? <br />Hesperus is sunk forever in Time. <br /> <br />The classics lie dead, nevermore read, <br />Roads not taken, Ozymandias dead. <br /> <br />Few stars rise anew to brighten the skies <br />Should one Whitman flare, a thousand Plaths die. <br /> <br />The poets are lost! The poets are lost! <br />No romantic Shakespeares, no down-to-earth Frosts. <br /> <br />The Muses have vanished – where have they gone? <br />We’re trapped in the Waste Land, no hope of dawn. <br /> <br />The seas of inspiration and wisdom lay dry. <br />Oh, weep for the poets as for Adonais! <br /> <br />The poets are lost! The poets are lost! <br />Shakespeare forgotten, and neglected lies Frost.<br /><br />Sophia White<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-poets-are-lost/
