doggrel

• “Thus Emser says once in German doggrel, that Luther imagined that”

  Life of Martin Luther

• “The children weave their flowers and chant some old doggrel rhymes with little or no meaning.”

  Hodge and His Masters

• “In what his daughter calls a doggrel list of his friends and his feats, Dr. Burney has thus mentioned the Thrales:”

  Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings

• “He repeated a kind of doggrel pasquinade, beginning with --”

  Tales and Novels — Volume 10

• “He showed me once a poem he'd written in those days with an apology -- It's doggrel adolescent doggrel.”

  The Huffington Post: Gabriel Byrne: A Review of Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Shoenberg

• “In places, however, it is clearly improvised and then as a rule it is model doggrel.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “But the acme of beauty is in the hair and, indeed, al-Shihab the Hijazi hath brought together all these items in his doggrel verse of the metre Rajaz, 489 and it is this:”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “In our house it was not merely that no attention was given to literature, to poetry; but poetry, especially Russian poetry, was looked upon as something quite undignified and vulgar; my grandmother did not even call it poetry, but ‘doggrel verses’; every author of such doggrel was, in her opinion, either a confirmed toper or a perfect idiot.”

  Punin and Baburin

• “I, too, began reading poetry, or, as my grandmother expressed it, poring over doggrel trash ....”

  Punin and Baburin

• “And thanks for all th ecomments so far, glad you like subversive doggrel.”

  THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED

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