Poems about Humor

• The Wreck of the 'Thomas Dryden' in Pentland Firth

  As I stood upon the sandy beach
  One morn near Pentland Ferry,

  by William Topaz McGonagall 58 lines
• The Pizza

  Look at itsy-bitsy Mitzi!
  See her figure slim and ritzy!

  by Ogden Nash 5 lines
• Bluebeard

  Yes, I am Bluebeard, and my name
    Is one that children cannot stand;

  by Harry Graham 283 lines
• Virtue is Its Own Reward

  Virtue its own reward? Alas!
    And what a poor one as a rule!

  by Harry Graham 232 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
• The Rime Of The Betsy Jane

  (A manuscript found in a bottle)
  

  by Bert Leston Taylor 50 lines, 1 comment
• Owd Ailse's Thrift.

  "What meks tha sit so quate, to-neet?  Come, hesta nowt to say?
  Tha coom i' th' heawse an' never spooak o t' time tha geet thi

  by William Baron 38 lines
• Young Greedyguts

  Cap of silk moiré, little wand of ivory,
  Clothes very dark.

  by Arthur Rimbaud 27 lines
• Enough is as Good as a Feast

  What is Enough? An idle dream!
    One cannot have enough, I swear,

  by Harry Graham 58 lines
• The Figurehead

  In the days when every seaport had its figureheads to show —
  Queens, princesses, sea-nymphs, witches, girls of all sorts, row

  by Cicely Fox Smith 79 lines
• I'd Rather Have Habits Than Clothes

  I'd Rather Have Habits Than Clothes,
  For that's where my intellect shows.

  by Gelett Burgess 17 lines
• The Three Foot Rule

  When I was bound apprentice, and learned to use my hands,
  Folk never talked of measures that came from foreign lands:

  by William John Macquorn Rankine 13 lines, 1 comment
• Don't Buy a Pig in a Poke

  Unscrupulous pigmongers will
    Attempt to wheedle and to coax

  by Harry Graham 35 lines
• Oil The Cricket

  "Mamma, what noises do I hear?
    They keep me wide awake."

  by Joseph Horatio Chant 26 lines
• The Black Tracker (Or: Why He Lost The Track)

  THERE was a tracker in the force
      Of wondrous sight (the story ran):—

  by Henry Lawson 33 lines
• Departure

          When I was a lad
          No more than a nipper

  by Cicely Fox Smith 50 lines
• To A Rusty Bicycle

  How many times in years gone by,
  My faithful grid have you and I

  by Cicely Fox Smith 42 lines
• Rent Problems

  Said the Landlord to the Tenant,
  "I want to make it clear,

  by Mary Finch 19 lines, 8 comments
• Napoleon

  Napoleon was a little guy:
  They used to call him Shorty.

  by P G Wodehouse 18 lines
• Those Flapjacks Of Brown's

  OH  light as the foam on the Plover,
      That mottles that magical stream;

  by Bert Leston Taylor 38 lines
• Industrious Carpenter Dan

  An honest man what loves his trade
  Deserves me honest grip;

  by Wallace Irwin 65 lines
• Owed To Volstead

  I First Round
    Prune extract and bright alcohol, so wooden

  by Wallace Irwin 247 lines
• My Very Particular Friend

  Are you struck with her figure and face?
      How lucky you happened to meet

  by Maria Smith Abdy 72 lines
• Sailor, Sailor —

        “Sailor, Sailor, why did you go —
        Why did you go for a sailor?

  by Cicely Fox Smith 46 lines
• Yawcob Strauss

  I HAF von funny leedle poy,
    Vot gomes schust to mine knee;

  by Charles Follen Adams 49 lines
• Reflections at Dawn

  I wish I owned a Dior dress
  Made to my order out of satin.

  by Phyllis McGinley 65 lines
• Morning Carol

  Oh! The present is gay,
  And the future is bright.

  by P G Wodehouse 13 lines
• To The Proof Room

  "O MEN of dark and dismal fate,"
      A prey to typographic terrors,

  by Bert Leston Taylor 51 lines
• Alliterations

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

  by Anonymous British 6 lines
• A Complaint

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 24 lines

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