Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems

Lewis Carroll
Bought sumptuous apparel
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Henry the First
Ate lampreys till he burst.
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I believe it was admitted by Scott
That some of his novels were rot.
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When Alexander Pope
Accidentally trod on the soap
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The one thing Cleopatra
Never could abide was a flatterer.
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'No,' said Charles Peace,
'I can't 'ardly blame the perlice.
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Miss Dorothy Sayers
Never cared about the Himalayas.
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When Macaulay found Brougham
Sitting on a tomb,
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Clerihew - Gay & Blake
The meaning of the poet Gay
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'Steady the Greeks!' shouted Aeschylus.
'We won't let such dogs as these kill us!'
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