Mightiest Pen Poem by Dr. Yogesh Sharma

Embarked the pen with comedies and histories;
But switched the device and wrote,
Best ever tragedies including Hamlet, Othello;
King Lear, and Macbeth, the supreme works;
And ended with tragicomedies or romances.

Remained popular across the ages and borders;
Best known for Romeo and Juliet,
Richard III, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The Tempest, Twelfth Night;
Apart from some "lost years" in wilderness.

Wrote a book of sonnets hundred and fifty four,
Venus and Adonis was his most famous verse,
Gave three thousand words to language English,
Second most quoted works after the Bible,
Performed for Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.

Genius in him redesigned dramatic chronicles of Henry VI;
Surpassed the horrors of The Spanish Tragedies;
Adapted the farce of Plautus, in Comedy of Errors,
Left behind Green's quixotic sentiments in The Two Gentlemen of Verona;
But the humble bard wrote, "I am weakfish speller."

Bard and his play popular, globally;
Constantly adored the syllabi,
Studied, performed, translated, world over;
Established mighty Globe theatre, near River Thames;
His pen made the theatre in London, a name to be.