Clerihew

[popeye]

Edmond Bentley
'hewd intently
making light of
grim instantly

[Leanne]

"Well," said Jiminy
"the ignominy
of limerick writing
has got me fighting."

[Leanne]

James Joyce
had a difficult choice:
write stuff that made sense
or be terribly obscure, metaphorical and dense

[popeye]

Percy Bysshe Shelly
never watched the telly
he was too romantic
to be so infantic

[Leanne]

Georgie Lord Byron
was much more inspirin'
though at night he got fruity
and walked in beauty

[popeye]

Hey Leanne
I do what I can
but you're much too quick
for this old prick

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Christopher Morley did to us tell
of his exceptional sense of smell
but was he really being hip
To say the best smell is a ship

[Erthona]

I know not if at sea
or if dead drunk was Morley,
I know at sea or dead drunk
the poems of Christopher Morley stunk!

[popeye]

Dear Chris Morley
think him not poorly
he tried to weave spells
with a poem of smells

[popeye]

Wilfrid Gison
in a vision
did once feel
he was a seal

[Leanne]

Old Samuel T.
a dope fiend, he
got rather cross
with an albatross

[popeye]

Abu Nuwas
a poet true was
a one time Persian to
Arab conversion