Not being able to think of any you haven't already mentioned off the top of
my head, can I just lamely second Stevie Smith, who chose these lines from
Shelley's _The Mask of Anarchy_ to head a collection of verse for children:
Next came Fraud, and he had on
like Eldon an ermined gown.
His big tears, for he wept well,
turned to millstones as they fell.
And the little children who
round his feet played to and fro
thinking every tear a gem
had their brains knocked out by them...
- Dominic
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