Ode to Idols

Sandberg had his foggy cats.
Owen choked with mustard gas.
Parker made a pass or two.
Auden's topic was who?
Seuss and Carroll made up words.
Coleridge Taylor is for the birds!
Emerson did transcend.
Kipling rose quite a Din.
Wordsworth had flower power.
Poe's bells toll the midnight hour.
Frost is just down the road.
cummings had his own code.
A Stein is a Stein is a Stein.
Browning counted line by line.
Thomas raged into the night.
Blake was always burning bright.
Angelou knows the the song's the thing!
Dickinson's a belle that has a ring
Nash's candy, oh so sweet.
There is no way this list's complete
Over their verses I peruse,
hoping for my own muse.