Love, love, love your poem, Quince!
But DT? I almost hate to join the naysayers, if only because I hate spoiling things for younger members who may still be infatuated with DT. For me, for sure, his was a necessary rung I had to climb. But reading him now, I just find so much hot air! And some really bad turns of phrase.
And I took his work to task, recently, on my site:
http://katebenedict.com/BadThomas.htm