doggerel

• I, Johannes, Chrysostomus, Amadeus, Wolfgangus, Sigismundus, Mozart, plead guilty to having both yesterday and the day before (and very often besides) stayed away from home till twelve o'clock at night, from ten o'clock till the aforesaid hour, I being in the presence and company of M. Cannabich, his wife and daughter, the Herrn Schatzmeister, Ramm, and Lang, making doggerel rhymes with the utmost facility, in thought and word, but not in deed. —  The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol.1.
• I repeat it, but only when I wish to do so; and I wish to do so to prove that the doggerel is futile—on me, anyway. —  Astounding, January 1943
• Defoe prided himself upon his verse, and in a catalogue of the Poets in one of his later pieces assigned himself the special province of “lampoon.” He possibly believed that his clever doggerel was a better title to immortality than Robinson Crusoe . —  Daniel Defoe
• Angela doesn't write doggerel--she writes verse Oh, I beg your pardon," Blue Bonnet said meekly Blue Bonnet, you'd make such a love of a lamb. —  Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
• At parties, it was she to whom he had brought the choicest favors Departing to school, he had addressed her in melancholy verses--doggerel decorated with references to flowers turned to dust, setting suns that would never rise again, countless symbols of hopeless passion and impending tragedy But, as an anti-climax, he always showed up alive in vacation time During his college years he had apparently forgotten her, had made himself conspicuous by some highly pessimistic theories, and had tried the Byronic gesture. —  Sacrifice

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