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# The Hunchback of Leicester
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-hunchback-of-leicester/
- Published: 2021-07-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: His rose is white, but for this king, the history is blue Though he is York, perhaps "the" York, he's not the York you knew He is no Conqueror, no Lion, as Shakespeare would imagine it He did not try to rescue Zion, t...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

His rose is white, but for this king, the history is blue  
Though he is York, perhaps "the" York, he's not the York you knew  
He is no Conqueror, no Lion, as Shakespeare would imagine it  
He did not try to rescue Zion, this last of the Plantagenets  
He did not sign the document that led us to Democracy  
His history is colored both by Tudors and hypocrisy  
He is no Ivanhoe sub-plot, no Walter Scott romance  
A tragic man without a horse, his kingdom for a chance  
A twisted spine, a twisted tale, dead princes in the Tower  
And now, unlike the Holy Grail, he’s found – and granted power  
But here’s the part I’d like to know about his burial spot  
Now that we know the tragic king was in a parking lot  
Was there a more bizarre factoid, yes truly, just one more  
Was there a hatchback parked above? Or was it a two-door?