Clerihew Poems
Bishop Stubbs - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Bishop Stubbs
Was expelled from all his clubs
For disparaging the Oxford crew
In The Quarterly Review.
When a photograph of Attila - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
When a photograph of Attila
Appeared in The Tatler
The Huns were all delighted,
And the editor was knighted.
Brigham Young - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Brigham Young
Was exceptionally highly-strung.
He always used a chopper
When a Mormon said anything improper.
The one thing Cleopatra - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
The one thing Cleopatra
Never could abide was a flatterer.
When Anthony compared her to Thais
She knocked him right of the dais.
Louis Dixhuit - Clerihew
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Louis Dixhuit
Got decidely cold feet
When he heard that the Little Man
Had landed at Cannes.
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.
