Write Clerihew Poems

English journalist, Daniel Defoe,
was most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
The whole idea of novels it’s said that he conceived,
and he wasn’t afraid to write...

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Edward Estlin Cummings so inventive
penned poetry so sensitive
He loved to write in lower case style
interspersed by CAPITALS once in a while...

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John Donne, English poet innovator and scholar
finished life wearing a clerical collar.
Most famous for sermons and love poetry, 
a wife and twelve children also had...

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George Eliot, an important English Victorian Era writer,
born Mary Ann Evans, she must have been quite the fighter.
Supporting abolitionists and loving whomever she wanted,
“Marion” went...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Born on Scottish soil
Both writer and physician, he delivered us Sherlock Holmes.
A spiritualist too, he believed in fairies; possibly in gnomes!...

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Louisa May Alcott
Writer’s block, she had nought
Wherever she wrote her stories
Stirred immeasurable glories

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Emile Barnard famous artists friend
did not to art his full attention tend
He gave up painting to write
settling for beautiful Venice sight...

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Edith Sitwell achieved poetical fame
so much so she became a 'Dame'
Her most famous write being Facade
proved her to be quite  card...

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Well I know it's been forever and you didn't know what to do
Fear no more your philosopher is back with his clerihew
Who will be now...

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Bugs,
       patient and calm; I'd give him hugs
 Trickster made debut in "Porky's Hare Hunt;"
  puts up with...

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The Belgian artist Jan van Eyck
in Latin&Greek learned to write
but in his art we now mostly see
meticulous detail as his u. s. p...

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Laura Ingles Wilder 
Her prose were milder
Than poetry or verse
Intended to coearce

Louisa May Alcott
Wrote tales I bought
About women and boys
With hearts sure to poise

Miss Nancy...

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Edgar Allen Poe
A writer and poet, his words did flow
He wrote of the macabre and bizarre
I should like to write on his par...

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My Dad, a huge giver                    ...

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As a tribute to Sir Edmund Clerihew Bentley 
I now write this unique form- consequently 
Two rhyming couplets, with line lengths unequal 
I'll tribute myself...in...

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