Poems about Humor

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Kiwi

Fruit without a stone, its shiny
pulp is clear green. Inside, tiny

by May Swenson 49 lines
The Rhyme Of The Chivalrous Shark

Most chivalrous fish of the ocean
To ladies forbearing and mild,

by Wallace Irwin 58 lines, 2 comments
A Lament

It induces a sensation
Of irritation

by Cicely Fox Smith 21 lines
Departure

When I was a lad
No more than a nipper

by Cicely Fox Smith 50 lines
Alliterations

Ten thousand trippers took twenty three trains
To take them to Trincomalee.

by Anonymous British 6 lines
Post-War Plans

“When this ‘ere war’s finished,” Bill said,
“If we ain’t all dead,

by Cicely Fox Smith 14 lines
Upon Julia, Playing The Oboe

When as I hear my Julia play
Upon the oboe, oft I say

by Cicely Fox Smith 20 lines
Song

Gather Kittens while you may,
Time brings only Sorrow;

by Oliver Herford 3 lines
John Mouldy

I spied John Mouldy in his celler,
Deep down twenty steps of stone;

by Walter de la Mare 18 lines, 1 comment
Smith-With-A-Hi

Signing on in the Emerald Isle
Up comes a bloke in shellback style,

by Cicely Fox Smith 32 lines
The Height Of Honesty

"Three friends once, in the course of conversation,
Touch'd upon honesty: 'No virtue better,'

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 15 lines
A Highly-Colored Romance

BEN GREEN was a New-Hampshire boy,
Who stood full six feet two:

by Charles Follen Adams 60 lines
Winter Pleasures

I hate
To skate.

by Cicely Fox Smith 22 lines
Finance

It's funny,
But I can never understand about

by Cicely Fox Smith 18 lines
Man May Be Happy

"Man may be happy, if he will:"
I've said it often, and I think so still;

by John Wolcot 45 lines
The House-Hunter

I have been looking at a hovel
At the back o’ behind;

by Cicely Fox Smith 35 lines
Dogs

Spaniels are all very well,
But they smell.

by Cicely Fox Smith 32 lines
Might Have Been

“If I was a bloke as could paint,”
Bill said, “which I ain’t,

by Cicely Fox Smith 77 lines
A Complaint

Why — can anybody say? —
Has upon my natal day

by Cicely Fox Smith 24 lines
Getting Off

I have taken to cycling again after a lapse of a generation,
How long I hardly care to tell,

by Cicely Fox Smith 26 lines, 1 comment
Sunlight Soap

You can use it with great pleasure and ease
Without wasting any elbow grease;

by William Topaz McGonagall 9 lines
Tea In The Garden

I will not go to tea with you, Mrs Arden,
Yourself, your house, your tea,

by Cicely Fox Smith 36 lines
Thoughts In A Garden

Why, where erstwhile I sowed my choicest seeds,
Come up but weeds?

by Cicely Fox Smith 27 lines
Sic Transit . . .

Bundy and son
In days that are done

by Cicely Fox Smith 29 lines
The Rime Of The Betsy Jane

(A manuscript found in a bottle)

by Bert Leston Taylor 50 lines, 1 comment
Mad About Music

I'm mad about music,
As mad as can be;

by Cicely Fox Smith 20 lines
Beecham's Pills

What ho! sickly people of high and low degree
I pray ye all be warned by me;

by William Topaz McGonagall 13 lines
The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum

Prologue
Wouldn't it jar you, wouldn't it make you sore

by Wallace Irwin 434 lines
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr.

Avaunt, acerbid Brat of Death, that sours
The Milk of Life and blasts the nascent Flowers!

by Wallace Irwin 709 lines
The Worried Skipper

"I hates to think of dyin'," says the skipper to the mate;
"Starvation, shipwrecks, heart disease, I loathe to contemplate.

by Wallace Irwin 40 lines

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