Poems about Humor

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To The Proof Room

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

by Bert Leston Taylor 51 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
The Deep Sea Gudge

The deep sea Gudge what lives on the sandy bottom,
(Is the fish o' the sea afeard o' we or us'ns afeard o' they?)

by Wallace Irwin 70 lines
Owed To Volstead

I First Round
Prune extract and bright alcohol, so wooden

by Wallace Irwin 247 lines
Blow Me Eyes

When I was young and full o' pride,
A-standin' on the grass

by Wallace Irwin 52 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
The Constant Cannibal Maid

Far, oh, far is the Mango island,
Far, oh, far is the tropical sea —

by Wallace Irwin 31 lines
Virtue is Its Own Reward

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

by Harry Graham 232 lines
Baby

Baby in the cauldron fell, --
See the grief on Mother's brow;

by Harry Graham 7 lines
Eberly's Fair Young Bride

Oh the Sauntering Sue fell into the squalls
A-blowing from Portsmouth town;

by Wallace Irwin 47 lines
Spring In The Shops

(In the manner of Ezra Pound)

by Bert Leston Taylor 27 lines
Mixed Hockey

You came down the field like a shaft from a bow;
The vision remains with me yet.

by P G Wodehouse 33 lines
The Forbearance Of The Admiral

I ain't afeard o' the Admiral.
Though a common old tar I be,

by Wallace Irwin 21 lines
Post-Impressionism

(Lines written after viewing Mr Arthur Dove's
exposition of the "Simultaneousness of the Ambient")

by Bert Leston Taylor 43 lines, 1 comment
The Dutiful Mariner

'Twas off the Eastern Filligrees —
Wizzle the pipes o'ertop! —

by Wallace Irwin 50 lines
Captain Pink of the Peppermint

Old Capting Pink of the Peppermint,
Though kindly at heart and good,

by Wallace Irwin 54 lines
An Inside Con to Refined Guys

Let me down easy, reader, say!
Don't run the bluff that you are on,

by Wallace Irwin 13 lines
Napoleon

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

by P G Wodehouse 18 lines
To A Lady Who Was A Great Talker

If your friendship to take I must take too your clack,
That friendship, methinks, I could almost give back;

by Elizabeth Moody 8 lines
Oil The Cricket

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

by Joseph Horatio Chant 26 lines
Lute

My lute set aside
on the little table

by Po Chu-I 9 lines
The Stern Parent

Father heard his Children scream,
So he threw them in the stream,

by Harry Graham 7 lines
The Cat

(Advice to the Young)
My children, you should imitate

by Harry Graham 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
Don't Buy a Pig in a Poke

Unscrupulous pigmongers will
Attempt to wheedle and to coax

by Harry Graham 35 lines
The Pizza

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

by Ogden Nash 5 lines
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
The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor

Prologue
Did some one ask if I am on the job?

by Wallace Irwin 430 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

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