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VARIETY OF HUMANS:
PRESENTED
IN UMETERED RHYMES
VARIETY OF HUMANS:
PRESENTED
IN UMETERED RHYMES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREAMBLE
I HISTORICAL PERSONAGES 8
II REVERED PERSONAGES 61
III POETS 113
IV COMPOSERS 161
V ARTISTS 212
VI PHILOSOPHERS 260
VII SCIENTISTS 311
VIII AUTHORS 398
RANDOM SAMPLES FROM CHAPTER V
68 PELLEGRINI, G. ANTONIO (1675 – 1741)
He was a Venetian painter, decidedly.
But he also traveled very widely.
He painted murals in England, and then
Was admired by the great Christopher Wren.
He decorated the Golden Room in the Hague
Did similar works in Dresden and Prague.
His painting of Alexander at the corpse of Darius
Is somber, sad and rather serious.
69 PICASSO, PABLO (1881 – 1973)
When one speaks of Picasso’s modernism
One invariably thinks of his cubism.
Everyone has heard of Picasso’s name.
Few other artists attained such fame.
Seated Woman, Les Demoiselles, and Ma Jolie
Are among his paintings that all must see.
But of these, and of all the rest
Guernica, all say, is surely the best.
70 PISSARRO, CAMILLE (1830 – 1903)
He was born in St. Thomas, which then was Danish.
His father was Portuguese and also Jewish.
He studied in a school which was classy
In France at a place known as Plassey.
He befriended the great artists he could find,
Like Monet, Cézanne, all of that kind.
Thousand plus paintings he’d painted thus far,
Most were destroyed by soldiers during a war.
71 POLLOCK, JACKSON (1912 – 1956)
He started by painting humans and other creatures
All of which have well-defined features.
Later he became a pioneering artist
A trail-blazing abstract expressionist.
His paintings include The She Wolf and The Flame.
But not all his paintings have a name.
Many in their apparent chaos look the same.
But each is unique, all brought him fame.
52 JÑANESHWAR, SANT (1275 – 1296)
He was a Marathi poet, saint and yogi
His monumental work is the Jñaneshwari
Which was a learned Gita commentary:
A masterpiece of the thirteenth century.
He did some miracles which believe some can’t:
Like making a buffalo with piety the Vedas chant.
He attained with God the final union
At the tender age of just twenty-one.
53 JONAH (8th Cent. BCE)
Sadly the ancient city of Nineveh
Was burned and sacked in every way
This flourishing capital of Assyria
Was destroyed by God, said Isiah.
To Nineveh God ordered Jonah to go
And preach wickedness there to overthrow.
Jonah disobeyed, was swallowed by a fish,
He prayed for release, and God granted his wish.
54 JOSEPH, SAINT (1st Cent BCE)
Biblical Mary’s spouse Joseph did
Come in the lineage of the great David.
When Jesus was born, we are told,
Joe was in his teens, not that old.
He took Mary and Jesus to Egypt, it appears
Where they stayed for at least three full years.
Then he brought them back to Nazareth
Where he lived until his own death.
59 KING JOHN (1166 – 1216)
Losing his all land in France, he became a Lackland
Yet, somehow he became king of England.
Of king Henry the Second, he was the youngest son
Who wanted to be fully free of every baron.
He taxed the people for his own good,
Became villain in the stories of Robin Hood.
But the Magna Carta which he finally signed
Is the earliest bill of rights of any kind.
60 KWAME NKRUMAH (1909 – 1972)
Nkrumah was born in Liberia,
And adopted by a lady named Nyaniba.
He was the First President: the highest post
In the Republic of Ghana, once called Gold Coast.
In nineteen-hundred and seventy-two
There was in Ghana a bloodless coup.
From Ghana he was to Guinea sent.
Where they made him Honorary Co-President.
61 LENIN, VLADIMIR I. U. (1870 – 1924)
He was first a lawyer, when Nick II was tsar
In his career he went very, very far
After the great Russian nation
Went through its October 18 Revolution.
It was in nineteen twenty-two that one fine morn
The Soviet Union was gloriously born.
Lenin, its leader proclaimed communism
And vowed to destroy all capitalism
62 LEWIS AND CLERK EARLY 19th CENTURY)
Meriwether Lewis and William Clerk
Set out to explore lands in the dark
That were part of the landmass of that day
That would become part of the USA.
Commissioned by President Jefferson
They explored and reached the Pacific Ocean.
Sacajawea took them here and there,
They also discovered the grizzly bear.
63 LOUIS NAPOLEON (1808 – 1873)
In the eighteen hundred and forty-eight fight
Deposed Louis Philippe lost his royal right.
Now Louis, Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew
Became of France the emperor new.
Under him France was industrialized
The City of Paris was beautified.
To the Crimean War his army he sent.
Losing the war with Bismarck, to Kent he went.
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