Clerihew Poems
It was a rule of Leonardo da Vinci's - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
It was a rule of Leonardo da Vinci's
Not to put his trust in princes.
Pleading was of no avail;
They had to pay up on the nail.
The novels of Jane Austen
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The novels of Jane Austen
Are the ones to get lost in.
I wonder if Labby
Has read Northanger Abbey
Rupert of the Rhine - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Rupert of the Rhine
Thought Cromwell was a swine,
And he felt quite sure
After Marston Moor
Whenever William Cobbett
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Whenever William Cobbett
Saw a hen-roost, he would rob it.
He posed as a British Farmer,
But knew nothing about Karma.
How the Emperor Jovian - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
How the Emperor Jovian
Would have revelled in the The Harovian!
And can't you see Diocletian
Roaring over The Fettesian?
Alexander Graham Bell
by Henry Splawn Taylor
Alexander Graham Bell
has shuffled off this mobile cell.
He's not talking any more
But he has a lot to answer for.
Thomas Warton
by Henry Splawn Taylor
Thomas Warton
never met Dolly Parton.
It made him quite surly
to have been born too early
Whenever William Cobbett
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Whenever William Cobbett
Saw a hen-roost, he would rob it.
He posed as a British Farmer,
But knew nothing about Karma.
The novels of Jane Austen
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The novels of Jane Austen
Are the ones to get lost in.
I wonder if Labby
Has read Northanger Abbey
I do not extenuate Bunyan's - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
I do not extenuate Bunyan's
Intemperate use of onions,
But if I knew a wicked agress
I would lend her The Pilgrim's Progress.
