=Poem in Marble= (_A_), the Taj, a mausoleum of white marble, raised in Agra, by Shah Jehan, to his favorite, Shahrina Moomtaz-i-Mahul, who died in childbirth of her eighth child. It is also called “The Marble Queen of Sorrow.” =Poet= (_The Quaker_), Bernard Barton (1784-1849). =Poet Sire of Italy=, Dantê Alighieri (1265-1321). =Poet Squab.= John Dryden was so called by the earl of Rochester, on account of his corpulence (1631-1701). =Poet of France= (_The_), Pierre Ronsard (1524-1585). =Poet of Poets=, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). =Poet of the Poor=, the Rev. George Crabbe (1754-1832). =Poets= (_The prince of_). Edmund Spenser is so called on his monument in Westminster Abbey (1553-1598). _Prince of Spanish Poets._ So Cervantês calls Garcilaso de la Vega (1503-1536). =Poets of England.= Addison, Beaumont, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Burns, Butler, Byron, Campbell, Chatterton, Chaucer, Coleridge, Collins, Congreve, Cowley, Cowper, Crabbe, Drayton, Dryden, Fletcher, Ford, Gay, Goldsmith, Gray, Mrs. Hemans, Herbert, Herrick, Hood, Ben Jonson, Keats, Keble, Landor, Marlowe, Marvel, Massinger, Milton, Moore, Otway, Pope, Prior, Rogers, Rowe, Scott, Shakespeare, Shelley, Shenstone, Southey, Spenser, Thomson, Waller, Wordsworth, Young. With many others of less celebrity. =Poets’ Corner=, in the south transept of Westminster Abbey. No one knows who christened the corner thus. With poets are divines, philosophers, actors, novelists, architects and critics. The “corner” contains a bust, statue, tablet, or monument, to five of our first-rate poets: viz., Chaucer (1400), Dryden (1700), Milton (1674), Shakespeare (1616), and Spenser (1598); and some seventeen of second or third class merit, as Addison, Beaumont (none to Fletcher), S. Butler, Campbell, Cowley, Cumberland, Drayton, Gay, Gray, Goldsmith, Ben Jonson, Macaulay, Prior, Rowe, Sheridan, Thomson and Wordsworth. ⁂ Dryden’s monument was erected by Sheffield, duke of Buckingham. Wordsworth’s statue was erected by a public subscription. =Poetry= (_The Father of_), Orpheus (2 _syl._) of Thrace. _Father of Dutch Poetry_, Jakob Maerlant; also called “The Father of Flemish Poetry” (1235-1300). _Father of English Poetry_, Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400). _Father of Epic Poetry_, Homer. He compares Richardson to Homer, and predicts for his memory the same honors which are rendered to the Father of Epic Poetry.--Sir W. Scott. =Poetry--Prose.= Pope advised Wycherly “to convert his poetry into prose.” =Poganuc=, small Puritan town in New England as it was 100 years ago.--Harriet Beecher Stowe, _Poganuc People_ (1876). =Po´gram= (_Elijah_), one of the “master minds” of America, and a member of Congress. He was possessed with the idea that there was a settled opposition in the British mind against the institutions of his “free and enlightened country.”--C. Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ (1844).