Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems

Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Was usually Mistah Bones
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Bishop Stubbs
Was expelled from all his clubs
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Louis Dixhuit
Got decidely cold feet
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Alexander of Macedon
Became gloomy and taciturn
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Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Would never acceot any fee
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When their lordships asked Bacon
How many bribes he had taken
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Although Don Bradman
Screamed and fought like a madman
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No doubt the poet Gray
Was all very well in his way,
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Brigham Young
Was exceptionally highly-strung.
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It was rather disconcerting for Hannibal
When he was introduced to a cannibal
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