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Poem by Edmund Clerihew Bentley


Da Vinci


It was a rule of Leonardo da Vinci's
Not to put his trust in princes.
Pleading was of no avail;
They had to pay up on the nail.



Edmund Clerihew Bentley


Edmund Clerihew Bentley's other poems:
  1. Acland-Hood
  2. Alexander
  3. Dorothy L. Sayers
  4. Poe
  5. Sir Walter Scott


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