Poems about Humour

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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
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
manipulation

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

by Richard Harris Barham 22 lines, 7 comments
From 'She Stoops to Conquer' A Song

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

by Oliver Goldsmith 28 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
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
Madam and The Rent Man

The rent man knocked.
He said, Howdy-do?

by Langston Hughes 36 lines
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
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
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
Been There Before

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

by 25 lines, 1 comment
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 50 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 Song

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

by Harry Breaker Morant 13 lines
A Norrible Tale

A norrible tale I'm going to tell
Of the woeful tragedy which befell

by Anonymous British 28 lines, 6 comments
Phantasmagoria CANTO III ( Scarmoges )

Through driving mists I seemed to see
A Thing that smirked and smiled:

by Lewis Carroll 115 lines
Don't You See?

The day was hotter than words can tell,
So hot the jelly-fish wouldn't jell.

by Katharine Lee Bates 18 lines, 5 comments
A Dog's Mistake [In Doggerel Verse]

He had drifted in among us as a straw drifts with the tide,
He was just a wand'ring mongrel from the weary world outside;

by 23 lines, 1 comment
Acceptance

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

by Langston Hughes 9 lines
Uncle Bill

My Uncle Bill! My Uncle Bill!
How doth my heart with anguish thrill!

by 48 lines
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 E Spencer 64 lines
A Blind Man's Epitaph

His eyes were dim; so here he lies,
Whose death came after his dim-ise.

by John Bannister Tabb 2 lines, 2 comments
Colin Instructed

Young Colin was as stout a boy
As ever gave a maiden joy;

by Thomas Chatterton 13 lines, 1 comment
On the Pope - Backwards

Eximium decus hoc fecit te scandere rerum
Copia, non virtus, fraus tua, non tua laus.

by Dugald Buchanan 4 lines
Santa Claus

"HALT! Who goes there?” The sentry’s call
Rose on the midnight air

by 40 lines
How Polly Paid For Her Keep

Then old Mother Brown got the horrors around her:
(I think it was pineapple-rum drove her daft)

by Barcroft Henry Boake 135 lines, 1 comment
The Play

Wot's in a name?-- she sez . . . An' then she sighs,
An' clasps 'er little 'ands, an' rolls 'er eyes.

by C J Dennis 115 lines, 2 comments
How M'Ginnis went missing

Let us cease our idle chatter,
Let the tears bedew our cheek,

by 30 lines
Marri'd

IT’S singin’ in an’ out,
An’ feelin’ full of grace;

by Dame Mary Gilmore DBE 44 lines, 5 comments
A Question

Women wear trousers
To trail round the shops;

by Cicely Fox Smith 23 lines

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