Poetry Friday - A Few Clerihews

Clerihew: a type of light, humorous biographical four-line poem (i.e. a "quartrain"), in rhyming style AABB. The clerihew was named after its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley (also, one of G.K. Chesterton's close friends). The first line of the clerihew is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person "put in an absurd light".

A few funniest samples here:

After dinner, Erasmus

Told Colet not to be “blas’mous”

Which Colet, with some heat

Requested him to repeat.

~
The people of Spain think Cervantes

Equal to half-a-dozen Dantes:

An opinion resented most bitterly

By the people of Italy.

~
Sir Humphrey Davy

Detested gravy.

He lived in the odium

Of having discovered sodium.

~
George the Third

Ought never to have occurred.

One can only wonder

At so grotesque a blunder.

~
Sir Christopher Wren

Said, "I'm going to dine with some men.

If anyone calls,

Say I'm designing St. Paul's."