Poems about Humour

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The Purple Cow Parodies

A Purple Cow

by Carolyn Wells 262 lines
Slim Greer In Hell

Gittin' used to his feet
On de solid ground.

by Sterling A Brown 33 lines
Motto

I play it cool
I dig all jive

by Langston Hughes 6 lines, 1 comment
The Party

DEY had a gread big pahty down to Tom's de othah night;
Was I dah? You bet! I neveh in my life see sich a sight;

by Paul Laurence Dunbar 102 lines, 2 comments
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
Pa Did It!

The train of cars that Santa brought is out of kilter now;
While pa was showing how they went he broke the spring somehow.

by Edgar Albert Guest 19 lines
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, 2 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
Stop Stealing the Napkins! : to Asinius Marrucinus

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

by Gaius Valerius Catullus 16 lines
About Boys

Show me the boy who never threw
A stone at someone's cat;

by Edgar Albert Guest 16 lines, 3 comments
I'm walking backwards for Christmas,

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

by Spike Milligan 37 lines, 1 comment
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, 6 comments
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
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
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
Dog-Gerel

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

by Laura Elizabeth Richards 40 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
'GS' or the Fourth Cook

He has notions of Australia from the tales that he’s been told—
Land of leggings and revolvers, land of savages and gold;

by Henry Lawson 30 lines, 1 comment
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
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 40 lines
Old Sam

It occurred on the evening before Waterloo
and troops were lined up on Parade,

by Stanley Holloway 52 lines, 1 comment
Prince Tatters

Little Prince Tatters has lost his cap!
Over the hedge he threw it;

by Laura Elizabeth Richards 26 lines, 5 comments
At Breakfast Time

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

by Edgar Albert Guest 50 lines
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
Molly Means

Sometimes at night through the shadowy trees
She rides along on a winter breeze.

by Margaret Walker 58 lines
The Swagless Swaggie

This happened in the years gone by before the bush was cleared,
When every man was six foot high and wore a heavy beard;

by Edward Harrington 88 lines, 4 comments
Valentine's Day

Oh! little loveliest lady mine,
What shall I send for your valentine?

by Laura Elizabeth Richards 10 lines, 2 comments
Sonnet CXII: "Gone, gone! The rayless window sheds no light"

Gone, gone! The rayless window sheds no light
Upon my upturned eyes; the graceful girl

by George Henry Boker 15 lines
Sonnet About A Nose

'Tis very odd that poets should suppose
There is no poetry about a nose,

by Anonymous British 13 lines, 1 comment

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