Clerihew Poems
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
Bessemer - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
"Corruptio optimi pessima!"
Grinned Sir Henry Bessemer.
"Judicio vulgi demens!"
Snorted Sir William Siemens
Although Don Bradman - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Although Don Bradman
Screamed and fought like a madman
And condemned the proceedings in toto,
They insisted on taking his photo.
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.
John Stuart Mill - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
John Stuart Mill,
By a mighty effort of will,
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote Principles of Political Economy
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.
