Clerihew – Shakespeare (Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems)
Amongst the contemporaries of ShakespeareThere were few who regarded him as Drake's peer.Spoiling paper was so much less strainThan spoiling ...
Amongst the contemporaries of ShakespeareThere were few who regarded him as Drake's peer.Spoiling paper was so much less strainThan spoiling ...
How the Emperor JovianWould have revelled in the The Harovian! And can't you see DiocletianRoaring over The Fettesian?Edmund Clerihew Bentley(Edmund ...
Inspiration visited HerrickDuring a mixed foursome at North Berwick.When his partner had sliced into a drainHe wrote "To Anthea, Who ...
Steady the Greeks! shouted Aeschylus."We won't let such dogs as these kill us!"Nothing he thought, could be bizarrer thanThe Persians ...
Sir Herbert Beerbohm TreeWould never acceot any feeFor singing The wearing of the Green,Accompanying himself on the tambourine.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
I do not extenuate Bunyan'sIntemperate use of onions,But if I knew a wicked agressI would lend her The Pilgrim's Progress.(Edmund ...
Karl MarxWas completely wrapped up in his sharks.The poor creatures seriously missed himWhilst he was attacking the capitalist system.(Edmund Clerihew ...
Of course RanjitsinhjiWas quite right not to be stingy,But I never could quite see the relevanceOf his keeping nine thousand ...
I believe it was admitted by ScottThat some of his novels were rot.How different was he from LyttonWho admired everything ...
Of all sad words of tongue or penThe saddest are Captain Wedgwood Benn,Who, waving aloft his gory sabre,Placed it at ...
Dinner-time? said Gilbert White,"Yes, yes mdash; certainly mdash; all right.Just let me finish this noteAbout the Lesser White-bellied Stoat."(Edmund Clerihew ...
It was rather disconcerting for HannibalWhen he was introduced to a cannibalWho expressed the very highest opinionOf cold pickled Carthaginian.(Edmund ...
On one occasion when BrowningSaved a debutante from drowningShe inquired faintly what he meanrBy that stuff about good news from ...
"Corruptio optimi pessima!"Grinned Sir Henry Bessemer."Judicio vulgi demens!"Snorted Sir William Siemens(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
Mr. Hilaire BelocIs a case for legislation ad hoc.He seems to think nobody mindsHis books being all of different kinds.(Edmund ...
Alexander of MacedonBecame gloomy and taciturnWhen they told him at the "Blue Lion"That he couldn't have any more Chian.(Edmund Clerihew ...
Mr. Ramsay MacDonaldWished the Channel could be tunnelled.He said it always got his goatTo be asked if he lunched on ...
The people of Spain think CervantesEqual to half-a-dozen Dantes;An opinion resented most bitterlyBy the people of Italy.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
Although the dialogues of PlatoDo not actually mention the potato,They indicate strongly we shouldSeek the Absolute Ideal Good.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
It was a pity about Dickens'Insane jealousy of chickens,And one could really almost weepAt his morbid mistrust of sheep.(Edmund Clerihew ...
Mr. Noel CowardWas disillusioned and souredBy the lukewarm reception of his comedyIntroducing a real dromedary**named Ethel(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
I quite realized, said Columbus"That the earth was not a rhombus,But I am a little annoyedTo find it an oblate ...
as a young man Tennysonwrote a virelai about venison,which falls into the same groupwith his sirvente about soup.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
The great Emperor OttoCould not decide upon a motto.His mind wavered betweenL'?tat C'est Moi, and Ich Dien.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
It maddened Dean IngeTo be asked not to sing,*And there was some savage back bitingWhen they tried to stop him ...
No, said Charles Peace,"I can't 'ardly blame the perlice.They 'as their faults, it is true,Bit I sees their point of ...
Somebody sent Dean SwiftAn ounce of strychnine as a gift.He took about thirty five minimsWhile writing about the Houyhnhms.(Edmund Clerihew ...
It was a rule of Leonardo da Vinci'sNot to put his trust in princes.Pleading was of no avail;They had to ...
Archbishop LaudSaw nothing to admire in Maud.The line he thought most appallingWas "Little King Charles is snarling."(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
Although Don BradmanScreamed and fought like a madmanAnd condemned the proceedings in toto,They insisted on taking his photo.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
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