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Poems about Humour

• A Question

  Women wear trousers
  To trail round the shops;

  by Cicely Fox Smith 23 lines
• Marri'd

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

  by Dame Mary Gilmore DBE 44 lines, 5 comments
• [Blank Verse]

  "                        "
        !     

  by Ernest Hemingway 5 lines, 2 comments
• An Emu Hunt

  West of Dubbo the west begins
  The land of leisure and hope and trust,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 40 lines
• Bill's Christmases

  "Christmas," said Bill, "on Christmas cards, it's winders all aglow,
  An' lots o' stuff to eat an' drink an' a good three feet o' sno

  by Cicely Fox Smith 42 lines, 2 comments
• Some Families Of My Acquaintance

  The Rummy-jums, the Rummy-jums,
  Are very funny people;

  by Laura Elizabeth Richards 37 lines
• Big John Henry

  This here's a tale of a sho-nuff man
  Whut lived one time in the delta lan'

  by Margaret Walker 34 lines
• Mind, I have a question for you

  Mind, I have a question for you — How is it you stay so young?
  As the years pile up on my body, you too should grow old.

  by So Kyongdok 3 lines, 2 comments
• Andy McElroe

  My brother Andy said, that for a soldier he would go,
  So great excitement came upon the house of McElroe.

  by William Percy French 37 lines
• Frying Pan's Theology

  Scene: On Monaro
  Dramatis Personae:

  by A B Banjo Paterson 24 lines
• Lines

  Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
  All is strange, yet nothing new;

  by Samuel Johnson 10 lines
• A Sake Barrel

  A sake barrel,
  Born without hands, makes merry —

  by Ihara Saikaku 4 lines, 3 comments
• My Literary Friend

  Once I wrote a little poem which I thought was very fine,
  And I showed the printer’s copy to a critic friend of mine,

  by Henry Lawson 23 lines, 1 comment
• The Bagman's Dog, : Mr. Peters's Story

  Stant littore Puppies!-- Virgil.
  It was a litter, a litter of five,

  by Richard Harris Barham 650 lines
• A Ballad of Ducks

  The railway rattled and roared and swung
  With jolting and bumping trucks.

  by A B Banjo Paterson 86 lines
• Eat Eels

  To Iwamaro
  I say this:

  by Otomo no Yakamochi 5 lines, 2 comments
• Blueberries

  Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb,
  Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum

  by Robert Frost 4 lines
• Rio Grande's Last Race

  Now this was what Macpherson told
  While waiting in the stand;

  by A B Banjo Paterson 124 lines
• An Easy Goin' Feller

  Ther' ain't no use in all this strife,
  An' hurryin', pell-mell, right thro' life.

  by Paul Laurence Dunbar 20 lines, 1 comment
• How Babs Malone Cut Down The Field

  Now the squatters and the “cockies,”
  Shearers, trainers and their jockeys

  by Barcroft Henry Boake 193 lines
• Are Ye Right, There, Michael?

  You may talk of Columbus's sailing
  Across the Atlantical Sea

  by William Percy French 50 lines
• The Pup

  He tore the curtains yesterday,
  And scratched the paper on the wall;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 24 lines
• God Bless Our Good and Gracious King

  God bless our good and gracious kind,
  Whose promise none relies on,

  by Lord John Wilmot 3 lines
• Melancholetta

  WITH saddest music all day long
  She soothed her secret sorrow:

  by Lewis Carroll 78 lines
• 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
• The Member of Parliament

  I've just been elected to Parliament,
  At Westminster I'm the big cheese,

  by Billy Bennett 70 lines
• Albert Evacuated

  Have you heard how young Albert Ramsbottom,
  Was evacuated from home

  by Stanley Holloway 88 lines, 1 comment
• Phantasmagoria CANTO V ( Byckerment )

  His duties are to pinch, and poke,
  And squeeze them till they nearly choke.

  by Lewis Carroll 125 lines
• Madam and the Census Man

  The census man,
  The day he came round,

  by Langston Hughes 39 lines
• 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

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