This from EH in response to my first clerihew:
The wife of Johann Sebastian Bach,
possessed of only a sock
for protection,
created for orchestra a violin section.
It took me a second to get it, but I like it tons. One thing I have sworn never to do is reverse word order for the sake of a rhyme, but EH is a Latin scholar, so we can forgive the "Latinate" construction.
And one more from me:
Charles Ives
Led two lives,
Which freed him to compose
"From Hanover Square North at the End of a Tragic Day the Voice of the People Again Arose."
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