Edmund Clerihew Bentley's Poetry, by title

• Clerihew - Aeschylus

  "Steady the Greeks!" shouted Aeschylus.
  "We won't let such dogs as these kill us!"

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Alexander

  Alexander of Macedon
  Became gloomy and taciturn

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Alexander Pope

  When Alexander Pope
  Accidentally trod on the soap

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• Clerihew - Archbishop Laud

  Archbishop Laud
  Saw nothing to admire in Maud.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Attila the Hun

  When a photograph of Attila
  Appeared in The Tatler

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Bacon

  When their lordships asked Bacon
  How many bribes he had taken

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Beerbohm Tree

  Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
  Would never acceot any fee

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Biography

  The art of Biography
  Is different from Geography.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Bradman

  Although Don Bradman
  Screamed and fought like a madman

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Brigham Young

  Brigham Young
  Was exceptionally highly-strung.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Brougham

  When Macaulay found Brougham
  Sitting on a tomb,

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Burne-Jones

  Sir Edward Burne-Jones
  Was usually Mistah Bones

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Burns

  "Gentlemen," said Burns,
  "Before the meeting adjourns

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Chapman & Hall

  Chapman & Hall
  Swore not at all.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Charles Peace

  "No," said Charles Peace,
  "I can't 'ardly blame the perlice.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Chaucer

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  Took a bath (in a saucer)

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Cleopatra

  The one thing Cleopatra
  Never could abide was a flatterer.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Clive of India

  What I like about Clive
  Is that he is no longer alive.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Cotton

  One day the putting of Cotton
  Was so indescribably rotten

  3 lines
• Clerihew - da Vinci

  It was a rule of Leonardo da Vinci's
  Not to put his trust in princes.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri
  Seldom troubled a dairy.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Davy

  Sir Humphrey Davy
  Abominated gravy.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Dean Swift

  Somebody sent Dean Swift
  An ounce of strychnine as a gift.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Dorothy L Sayers

  Miss Dorothy Sayers
  Never cared about the Himalayas.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Edward the Confessor

  Edward the Confessor
  Slept under the dresser.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Emperor Jovian

  How the Emperor Jovian
  Would have revelled in the The Harovian!

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Gay & Blake

  The meaning of the poet Gay
  Was always as clear as day,

  3 lines, 1 comment
• Clerihew - General Sherman

  "No, Sir" said General Sherman
  "I did not enjoy the sermon;

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Gilbert White

  "Dinner-time?" said Gilbert White,
  "Yes, yes mdash; certainly mdash; all right.

  3 lines
• Clerihew - Gray

  No doubt the poet Gray
  Was all very well in his way,

  3 lines

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