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Poems about Humour

• The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull

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

  by Guy Wetmore Carryl 38 lines
• Forth went the candid man

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

  by Stephen Maria Crane 11 lines
• The Double Transformation, A Tale

  Secluded from domestic strife,

  by Oliver Goldsmith 104 lines
• Sale By Auction

  I went to an auction
  To bid for a chair;

  by Cicely Fox Smith 38 lines
• A Bush Christmas

  The sun burns hotly thro' the gums
  As down the road old Rogan comes -

  by C J Dennis 80 lines, 1 comment
• Black Mousquetaire : A Legend of France

  Francois Xavier Auguste was a gay Mousquetaire,
  The Pride of the Camp, the delight of the Fair:

  by Richard Harris Barham 839 lines
• A Bush Lawyer

  When Ironbark the turtle came to Anthony's lagoon
  The hills were hid behind a mist of equinoctial rain,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 39 lines
• The Tragedy

  Oh, I never felt so wretched, and things never looked so blue
  Since the days I gulped the physic that my Granny used to brew;

  by Henry Lawson 16 lines
• They told me it was metal

  They told me it was metal, but I didn't believe a word.
  But now I find it's iron of the strongest, finest kind.

  by Chin-ok 4 lines, 2 comments
• When Father Played Baseball

  The smell of arnica is strong,
  And mother's time is spent

  by Edgar Albert Guest 64 lines
• I Was A Bustlemaker Once, Girls

  When I was a lad of twenty and was working in High Street, Ken.,
  I made quite a pile in a very little while - I was a bustle maker t

  by Patrick Barrington 34 lines, 5 comments
• What a Book! : to Calvus the Poet

  whence your unlucky feet brought you,
  cursed ones of the age, worst of poets.

  by Gaius Valerius Catullus 24 lines
• The Cynotaph,

  Poor Tray charmant!
  Poor Tray de mon Ami!

  by Richard Harris Barham 187 lines
• Phantasmagoria CANTO IV ( Hys Nouryture )

  "OH, when I was a little Ghost,
  A merry time had we!

  by Lewis Carroll 125 lines
• Phantasmagoria CANTO VI ( Dyscomfyture )

  That's got no more discretion than
  An idiotic goose?

  by Lewis Carroll 120 lines
• To Promise Is One Thing To Keep It, Another

  JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain;
  Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs

  by Jean de La Fontaine 52 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
• The Hypnotist

  A man once read with mind surprised
  Of the way that people were "hypnotised";

  by A B Banjo Paterson 106 lines
• Three little birds in a row

  Three little birds in a row
  Sat musing.

  by Stephen Maria Crane 10 lines
• Another Mouth To Feed

  We've got another mouth to feed,
  From out our little store;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 35 lines
• Wide Spaces

  When my last long-beer has vanished and the truth is left unsaid;
  When each sordid care is banished from my chair and from my bed,

  by Henry Lawson 18 lines
• Orange peel

  THE COLONEL stopped, and glared around,
  Then, pointing sternly to the ground,

  by J Milton Hayes 32 lines
• The Rum Parade

  Now ye gallant Sydney boys, who have left your household joys
  To march across the sea in search of glory,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 33 lines, 1 comment
• Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving

  Underneath protected branches, from the highway just aloof;
  Stands the house of Grand'ther Baldwin, with its gently sloping roof.

  by Horatio Alger Jr 72 lines
• The Gentle Hint

  The old man sat upon his swag his eyes were red and bleared.
  I doubt he’d had a wash for days or even combed his beard.

  by Edward Harrington 38 lines
• The Old Bridge

  The old bridge has a wrinkled face.
  He bends his back

  by Hilda Conkling 17 lines
• A Change of Menu

  Now the new chum loaded his three-nought-three,
  It's a small-bore gun, but his hopes were big.

  by A B Banjo Paterson 42 lines
• The V-A-S-E

  From the madding crowd they stand apart,
  The maidens four and the Work of Art;

  by James Jeffrey Roche 34 lines
• Ode to Clothes

  Every morning you wait,
  clothes, over a chair,

  by Pablo Neruda 70 lines
• Behind The Bar-A Desecration Of Tennyson

  Gray eyes and gamboge hair!
  One barmaid of "The Crown"!

  by Harry Breaker Morant 16 lines

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