Poems about Humour

• The Fishing Outfit

  You may talk of stylish raiment,
  You may boast your broadcloth fine,

  by Edgar Albert Guest 30 lines
• A Sailor's Yarn

  This is the tale that was told- to me,
  By a battered and shattered son of the sea-

  by James Jeffrey Roche 74 lines, 1 comment
• Answer to Prayer

  Der ain't no use in sayin' de Lawd won't answer prah;
  If you knows how to ax Him, I knows He's bound to heah.

  by James Weldon Johnson 28 lines
• On A Fart - Let In The House Of Commons

  Reader, I was born, and cried;
  I crack'd, I smelt, and so I died.

  by Matthew Prior 7 lines, 4 comments
• The Alter Boy

  Now McEvoy was altar-boy
  As long as I remember;

  by John O Brien 48 lines
• Stew Much

  A duck once met a porcupine ; they formed a corporation
    Which called itself a Porcuduck ( a beastly conjugation ! ).

  by Sukumar Ray 15 lines, 1 comment
• Morgan's Dog

  Morgan the drover explained,
  As he drank from his battered quart-pot,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 38 lines
• A Walgett Episode

  The sun strikes down with a blinding glare;
  The skies are blue and the plains are wide,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 54 lines, 1 comment
• Fed Up

  I ain't a timid man at all, I'm just as brave as most,
  I'll take my chance in open fight and die beside my post;

  by A B Banjo Paterson 26 lines
• Feronde

  IN Eastern climes, by means considered new;
  The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 214 lines
• A Triolet

  Of all the sickly forms of verse,
  Commend me to the triolet.

  by A B Banjo Paterson 8 lines
• Driver Smith

  'Twas Driver Smith of Battery A was anxious to see a fight;
  He thought of the Transvaal all the day, he thought of it all the night

  by A B Banjo Paterson 68 lines, 3 comments
• Sonnet CCLI: "When with the courage lent me by thy smile"

  When with the courage lent me by thy smile,
  I laid my hands upon thy sacred form,

  by George Henry Boker 15 lines
• The Lure That Failed

  I know a wonderful land, I said,
  Where the skies are always blue,

  by Edgar Albert Guest 32 lines
• The Methodist

  Says Tom to Jack, 'tis very odd,
  These representatives of God,

  by Thomas Chatterton 24 lines, 4 comments
• Some Account of a New Play

  'The play's the thing!'-- Hamlet.
  Tavistock Hotel, Nov. 1839.

  by Richard Harris Barham 339 lines
• Jewels

  She never had a diamond
  To grace her small left hand,

  by Amelia Wire Holmes Aaron 17 lines, 1 comment
• The Messed Damozel

  At the Cubist Exhibition
  The Messed Damozel leaned out

  by Charles Hanson Towne 28 lines
• The Art of Book-Keeping

  How hard, when those who do not wish
  To lend, that's lose, their books,

  by Samuel Laman Blanchard 150 lines
• The Silent Shearer

  Weary and listless, sad and slow,
  Without any conversation,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 68 lines
• The Health-Food Diner

  No sprouted wheat and soya shoots
  And Brussels in a cake,

  by Dr. Maya Angelou 30 lines
• Toys

  I can pass up the lure of a jewel to wear
  With never the trace of a sigh,

  by Edgar Albert Guest 32 lines
• Three Palinodias - 01

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  by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 14 lines
• Nicaise

  TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot;
  Of one who had the name of Nicaise got;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 222 lines
• 'Urry

  Now, Ma-til-der! Ain't cher dressed yet? I declare, the girl ain't up!
  Last as ushul. Move yerself, you sleepy'-ead!

  by C J Dennis 71 lines, 1 comment
• Cat Parody on Poe's "Raven"

  The other night while we lay musing, and our weary brain confusing o'er the topics of the day,
  Suddenly we heard a rattling, as of se

  by Anonymous Americas 20 lines
• The Ad-Dressing Of Cats

  You've read of several kinds of Cat,
  And my opinion now is that

  by T S Eliot 35 lines, 4 comments
• Tar and Feathers

  Oh! the circus swooped down
  On the Narrabri town,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 42 lines
• The Weather Prophet

  'Ow can it rain.' the old man said, 'with things the way they are?
  You've got to learn off ant and bee, and jackass and galah;

  by A B Banjo Paterson 8 lines, 1 comment
• An Answer to Various Bards

  Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in,
  Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and the others of their kin,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 70 lines, 1 comment

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