Poems about Humour

• Philip Le Barr

  Philip Le Barr,
  Was knocked down by a car,

  by Spike Milligan 12 lines, 2 comments
• A Threnody

  The Ahkoond of Swat is dead.—London Papers
                WHAT, what, what,

  by George T Lanigan 56 lines
• The Hunter

  I have fought against the poodle with his gory, deadly paws;
  I have faced the fearsome kitten, wild and bony,

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 23 lines
• Rafe royster doyster

  [DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
  RAFE ROYSTER DOYSTER 2.s

  by Nicholas Udall 3779 lines
• The Purple Cow Parodies

  
  A Purple Cow

  by Carolyn Wells 262 lines
• The Doctor

  The doctor took my shirt away;
  He did it for the best;

  by A P Herbert 0 lines, 1 comment
• Those Annual Bills

  These annual bills! these annual bills!
  How many a song their discord trills

  by Mark Twain 12 lines, 2 comments
• I'm walking backwards for Christmas,

  I'm walking backwards for Christmas,
  Across the Irish Sea,

  by Spike Milligan 37 lines, 1 comment
• To A Louse

  On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church
  Ha! whare ye gaun' ye crowlin ferlie?

  by Robert Burns 49 lines, 2 comments
• Slim Greer In Hell

  Gittin' used to his feet
  On de solid ground.

  by Sterling A Brown 33 lines
• An Easter Rhyme

  Full a dozen red lips patter:
  “Who is going to ride with who?”

  by Barcroft Henry Boake 60 lines, 5 comments
• The Drinking Song

  Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
  To heal my heart and drown my woe.

  by J R R Tolkien 5 lines, 10 comments
• Blank Verse

  "                        "
        !     

  by Ernest Hemingway 5 lines, 8 comments
• There’s Only The Two Of Us Here

  I camped one night in an empty hut on the side of a lonely hill.
  I didn’t go much on empty huts, but the night was awful chill.

  by Edward Harrington 28 lines, 7 comments
• At Breakfast Time

  My Pa he eats his breakfast
    in a funny sort of way:

  by Edgar Albert Guest 50 lines
• The Green Tie on the little Yellow Dog

  There's a little sallow idle man lives north of Waterloo,
  And he owns the toughest music hall in town.

  by Billy Bennett 50 lines
• Green Apples

  What can you do with a woman under thirty?
  It's true she has a certain freshness, like a green apple,

  by Dudley Randall 17 lines, 5 comments
• Down the Stream the Swans All Glide

  Down the stream the swans all glide;
  It's quite the cheapest way to ride.

  by Spike Milligan 5 lines, 3 comments
• How McDougal Topped The Score

  A peaceful spot is Piper's Flat. The folk that live around -
  They keep themselves by keeping sheep and turning up the ground;

  by Thomas Edward Spencer 80 lines, 5 comments
• A Son Of A Gun

  I wish I had a barrel of rum
  and sugar three hundred pound.

  by Anonymous Americas 24 lines, 2 comments
• In Defence of the Bush

  So you're back from up the country, Mister Lawson, where you went,
  And you're cursing all the business in a bitter discontent;

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 40 lines
• Dog-Gerel

  I sat beside a lady fair,
      A lady grave and sweet;

  by Laura Elizabeth Richards 40 lines, 2 comments
• The Embarrassing Episode Of Little Miss Muffet

  Little Miss Muffet discovered a tuffet,
  (Which never occurred to the rest of us)

  by Guy Wetmore Carryl 39 lines
• Sonnet CXXX: "Stand fast amidst the darkness! Ah! my dear"

  Stand fast amidst the darkness! Ah! my dear,
  'Tis easy loving where the sunshine falls,

  by George Henry Boker 15 lines
• Chatterton's Will

  Burgum, I thank thee, thou hast let me see
  That Bristol has impress'd her stamp on thee,

  by Thomas Chatterton 77 lines, 2 comments
• The Geebung Polo Club

  It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub,
  That they formed an institution called the Geebung Polo Club.

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 50 lines, 2 comments
• "If I should die tonight"

  A parody of "If I Should Die" by Benjamin Franklin King (1857-1894).

  by William Percy French 22 lines
• A Song From The Suds

  Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
  While the white foam raises high,

  by Louisa May Alcott 24 lines, 2 comments
• Brahn Boots

  Our Aunt Hanna's passed away,
  We 'ad her funeral today,

  by Weston and Lee 68 lines, 3 comments
• Stop Stealing the Napkins! : to Asinius Marrucinus

  or return my napkin, whose value
  doesn’t disturb me, truly,

  by Gaius Valerius Catullus 16 lines

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