Adelaide and I

Just a few more Clerihews to whet your appetite.


CW3
Horatio Alger
Liked nostalger;
Rags to riches;
Very few glitches.

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CW6
Jane Austen
Was not in Boston'
On one occasion
She penned “Persuasion.”

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CW9
L Frank Baum
Had no qualm;
Emerald writer,
Bad witch fighter.

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CW7
Balaam's ass,
As it came to pass,
Asked it's master
To stop his beating and go no faster.

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CW98
Xantippe
Wasn't a hippy;
Caustic wife of Socrates,
Sounded like a flock of bees.