Denis Florence MacCarthy

Far more than a literary fellow of note
Denis Florence MacCarthy he was a great poet
So many of his time to anonymity gone
But the poems of MacCarthy are read and living on

A poet and translator and a collector of song
Amongst the greats of Irish Literature he does belong
His sort of poetry does live on in time
His original poems have music in the rhyme

Though the literary critics him tend to under-rate
In his own right MacCarthy was truly a great
Poet and with the best of his time he was one to compare
'Tis true what is said about poets they are rare

One of Dublin's nineteenth century literary finest to that his poems testify
Of him the mantle of greatness would be hard to deny
Denis Florence MacCarthy his poems read and enjoyed today
Of him that does say more than words could ever say.