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Poems about Humour

• A Dogs' View

  I'm only just a common racing dog,
  Simple in habit, and my diet's plain.

  by C J Dennis 24 lines, 1 comment
• The Riddle of the Dinosaur

  Behold the mighty dinosaur,
  Famous in prehistoric lore,

  by Bert Leston Taylor 27 lines, 1 comment
• Phantasmagoria CANTO II ( Hys Fyve Rules )

  Wait for the Victim to commence:
  No Ghost of any common sense

  by Lewis Carroll 95 lines
• The Spelling Lesson

  When Venus said: "Spell no for me,"
  "N-O," Dan Cupid wrote with glee,

  by Carolyn Wells 6 lines, 1 comment
• Execution, The : A Sporting Anecdote Hon. Mr. Sucklethumbkin's Story

  My Lord Tomnoddy got up one day;
  It was half after two,

  by Richard Harris Barham 166 lines
• Rum And Water

  Stifling was the air, and heavy; blowflies buzzed and held a levee,
  And the mid-day sun shone hot upon the plains of Bungaroo,

  by Thomas E Spencer 72 lines
• The Rouseabout

  In a humble hut, on a scrubby flat,
  Near the land of the setting sun,

  by Thomas E Spencer 56 lines
• A Departing Dirge

  Girls in town and boys out back,
  I've rolled up my little pack,

  by Harry Breaker Morant 25 lines
• Laughter

  Laughter sort o' settles breakfast better than digestive pills;
  Found it, somehow in my travels, cure for every sort of ills;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 24 lines, 2 comments
• If Only.....

  If only dinner cooked itself,
  And groceries grew upon the shelf;

  by Fay Inchfawn 34 lines, 4 comments
• The Gale

  It came upon us sudden; six solid hours it blew
  As if a thousand devils had gallivanted through

  by Edwin James Brady 40 lines, 1 comment
• O'Toole And McSharry

  In the valley of the Lachlan, where the perfume from the pines
  Fills the glowing summer air like incense spreading;

  by Thomas E Spencer 80 lines
• How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten

  Most worthy of praise
  Were the virtuous ways

  by Guy Wetmore Carryl 90 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
• A Bushman's Song

  I’M travellin’ down the Castlereagh, and I’m a station hand,
  I’m handy with the ropin’ pole, I’m handy with the brand,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 40 lines
• The Sorry Hostess

  She said she was sorry the weather was bad
  The night that she asked us to dine;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 32 lines
• The White Foxglove

  Reynard, the fox, was asked to a party.
  "Come", they said, in your Sunday best,

  by C J Dennis 55 lines, 1 comment
• The Banker and the Cobbler

  There was a cobbler once, who sang all day;
  'Twas wonderful to see the man, and then

  by Alphonse Marie Lois de Lamartine 52 lines
• The Finger Post

  Across the field, beyond the church.
      You see the sign post stand.

  by Cicely Fox Smith 39 lines
• Between Two Loves

  I GOTTA lov' for Angela,
  I lov' Carlotta, too.

  by Thomas Augustine Daly 35 lines, 2 comments
• The Fairies Farewell, or God a Mercy Will

  Farewell, rewards and fairies,
  Good housewives now may say,

  by Richard Corbet 69 lines
• Signs

  It's "be a good boy, Willie,"
  And it's "run away and play,

  by Edgar Albert Guest 30 lines
• The Bucking-Tub

  IF once in love, you'll soon invention find
  And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;

  by Jean de La Fontaine 82 lines
• When Mother Cooked With Wood

  I do not quarrel with the gas,
  Our modern range is fine,

  by Edgar Albert Guest 39 lines
• The Big Baboon

  The Big Baboon is found upon
  The plains of Cariboo:

  by Hilaire Belloc 8 lines, 1 comment
• The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull

  Once, on a time and in a place
  Conducive to malaria,

  by Guy Wetmore Carryl 38 lines
• Madam's Past History

  My name is Johnson--
  Madam Alberta K.

  by Langston Hughes 31 lines
• John A. Calhoun, My Joe John

  A Parody
  

  by David John Scott 33 lines
• Shouting for a Camel

  It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator,
  Who was going down the township just to make a bit o' chink,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 30 lines
• Forth went the candid man

  Forth went the candid man
  And spoke freely to the wind --

  by Stephen Maria Crane 11 lines

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