Sonnet 1

For who among us has gained immortal life?
Whom among our numbers will ever escape
That fast enroaching day,brought by sickness or knife
Ravaged by misfortune,brought down by fate
Authors,Artists among us have escaped the fade of time
Immortalized in the memories of men
Cast there by publication of tragedies and rhyme
Of stories of love and things that had once been
Immortal men raised so high long ago
Names whispered and passed throughout history
Nothing but works to testify of men who all should know
Brilliant mortal heroes shrouded in mystery
And long laid in the ground to rest
These artistic giants,truely History's best.