Poems about Humour

• Molly Means

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

  by Margaret Walker 58 lines
• 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
• Prince Tatters

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

  by Laura Elizabeth Richards 26 lines, 7 comments
• The Jackdaw of Rheims

  The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!
  Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;

  by Richard Harris Barham 162 lines, 3 comments
• The Lucky Horseshoe

  A farmer travelling with his load
  Picked up a horseshoe in the road,

  by James Thomas Fields 75 lines, 2 comments
• 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
• Acceptance

  God in His infinite wisdom
  Did not make me very wise-

  by Langston Hughes 9 lines
• 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
• The Devil In Hell

  HE surely must be wrong who loving fears;
  And does not flee when beauty first appears.

  by Jean de La Fontaine 210 lines
• Sonnet CCII: "Love stirs the pulses of my deeper thought"

  Love stirs the pulses of my deeper thought,
  Muses on things that were and things to be,

  by George Henry Boker 15 lines
• Valentine's Day

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

  by Laura Elizabeth Richards 10 lines, 2 comments
• 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
• '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 33 lines, 1 comment
• Can't

  Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken;
  Doing more harm here than slander and lies;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 35 lines, 1 comment
• The Red-Haired Man

  There was a red-haired man who had no eyes or ears.
  Neither did he have any hair, so he was called red-haired theoretically.

  by Daniil Ivanovich Kharms 6 lines, 6 comments
• A Song

  The sun may shine, the rain may fall,
  And the world roll round about, -

  by Harry 'Breaker' Morant 13 lines, 1 comment
• From 'She Stoops to Conquer' A Song

  Let school-masters puzzle their brain,
  With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;

  by Oliver Goldsmith 28 lines
• 'Alt! who goes there?

  Old Sam first came to London
  When George the Fourth were King,

  by Stanley Holloway 78 lines
• manipulation

  Oh, my head! my head! my head!
  Lack! for my poor unfortunate head!

  by Richard Harris Barham 22 lines, 7 comments
• Hell's Pavement

  “When I’m discharged at Liverpool ‘n’ draws my bit o’ pay,
  I won’t come to sea no more;

  by John Masefield 19 lines, 2 comments
• Why Doherty Died

  It was out on the Bogan near Billabong Creek
  Where the sky shines like brass seven days in the week,

  by Thomas Edward Spencer 64 lines
• Been There Before

  There came a stranger to Walgett town,
  To Walgett town when the sun was low,

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 25 lines, 1 comment
• Old Deuteronomy

  Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;
  He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.

  by T S Eliot 119 lines, 1 comment
• The Servant Girl Justified

  BOCCACE alone is not my only source;
  T'another shop I now shall have recourse;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 124 lines
• A Sea Dirge

  There is an insect that people avoid
  (Whence is derived the verb 'to flee').

  by Lewis Carroll 48 lines, 1 comment
• A New Song

  Ah blame me not, Catcott, if from the right way
  My notions and actions run far.

  by Thomas Chatterton 28 lines, 1 comment
• A Sake Barrel

  A sake barrel,
  Born without hands, makes merry —

  by Ihara Saikaku 4 lines, 3 comments
• Invitation: to Fabullus

  But accept endearments in return for the wine
  or whatever’s sweeter and finer:

  by Gaius Valerius Catullus 14 lines
• The Rum Tum Tugger

  The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat:
  If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse.

  by T S Eliot 43 lines, 2 comments
• Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat

  There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
  When the Night Mail's ready to depart,

  by T S Eliot 69 lines, 2 comments

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