Poems about Humor

• 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
• Shonny Schwartz

      Haf you seen mine leedle Shonny,--
                         

  by Charles Follen Adams 47 lines
• Finance

  It's funny,
  But I can never understand about

  by Cicely Fox Smith 18 lines
• Spring In The Shops

  (In the manner of Ezra Pound)
  

  by Bert Leston Taylor 27 lines
• Mad About Music

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 20 lines
• To A Fly, Taken Out Of A Punch Bowl

  Ah! poor intoxicated little knave,
  Now senseless, floating on the fragrant wave;

  by John Wolcot 62 lines, 1 comment
• Eberly's Fair Young Bride

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

  by Wallace Irwin 47 lines
• The Constant Cannibal Maid

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

  by Wallace Irwin 31 lines
• Winter Pleasures

  I hate
  To skate.

  by Cicely Fox Smith 22 lines
• The Dutiful Mariner

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

  by Wallace Irwin 50 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
• Missed

  The sun in the heavens was beaming,
      The breeze bore an odour of hay,

  by P G Wodehouse 44 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
• Smith-With-A-Hi

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 32 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
• A Highly-Colored Romance

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

  by Charles Follen Adams 60 lines
• Taking Issue with Miss U. S. Swisher

  The day, I recall, was a Spring one,
  Not hot and oppressive, though warm,

  by P G Wodehouse 30 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
• Auction-Mad

  There lived a worthy couple once
  In good old Birming Town.

  by Mary Finch 75 lines, 3 comments
• 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
• Sunlight Soap

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

  by William Topaz McGonagall 9 lines
• Printer's Error

  As o'er my latest book I pored,
  Enjoying it immensely,

  by P G Wodehouse 102 lines
• Post-War Plans

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 14 lines
• Country Pleasures

  I always rather bar
  A Bazaar.

  by Cicely Fox Smith 19 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
• Biby's Epitaph

  A muvver was barfin' 'er biby one night,
  The youngest of ten and a tiny young mite,

  by Anonymous British 16 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• Dogs

  Spaniels are all very well,
  But they smell.

  by Cicely Fox Smith 32 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

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