Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
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Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
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'Sir Christopher Wren
Said, 'I am going to dine with some men.
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John Stuart Mill,
By a mighty effort of will,
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George the Third
Ought never to have occurred.
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Father Brown
Gained wide renown.
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Edward the Confessor
Slept under the dresser.
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Chapman & Hall
Swore not at all.
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The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
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It was a rule of Leonardo da Vinci's
Not to put his trust in princes.
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