The Top Ten Celebrity Poets of All Time

10: Ronald Reagan

Our troubles break and drench us.

Like spray on the cleaving prow

Of some trim Gloucester schooner.

As it dips in a graceful bow ...

But why does sorrow drench us

When our fellow passes on?

He's just exchanged life's dreary dirge

For an eternal life of song.

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