Poems about Humour

• Sea Sickness

  I must go down to the seas again, where the billows romp and reel,
  So all I ask is a large ship that rides on an even keel,

  by Arthur Guiterman 13 lines
• The King Of Bombaria

  In the land of Bombaria
  The customs are peculiar.

  by Sukumar Ray 14 lines
• On the Strangely Botched Endings of Some of Shakespear's Sonnets

  O lame and impotent conclusion! 'Tis
  As some full stream should run not to the sea,

  by Henry Ellison 13 lines
• A Job for McGuinness

  Oh, it's dreadful to think in a country like this
  With its chances for work - and enjoyment

  by A B Banjo Paterson 19 lines
• Brahn Boots

  Our Aunt Hanna's passed away,
  We 'ad her funeral today,

  by Weston and Lee 68 lines, 3 comments
• The Old, Old Story

  I have no wish to rail at fate,
  And vow that I'm unfairly treated;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 24 lines
• How Jack Found that Beans May Go Back On a Chap

  Without the slightest basis
  For hypochondriasis

  by Guy Wetmore Carryl 90 lines, 1 comment
• The Mock Turtle's Song

  Beautiful soup, so rich and green,
  Waiting in a hot tureen!

  by Lewis Carroll 7 lines
• Our New Horse

  The boys had come back from the races
  All silent and down on their luck;

  by A B Banjo Paterson 146 lines
• A Parable

  The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there,
  And warmly debated the matter;

  by Arthur Conan Doyle 8 lines, 2 comments
• The Uses of Ocean

  To people who allege that we
  Incline to overrate the Sea

  by Sir Owen Seaman 38 lines, 1 comment
• 'Alt! who goes there?

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

  by Stanley Holloway 78 lines
• In this world of ours,

  In this world of ours,
  We eat only to cast out,

  by Matsuo Basho 7 lines, 4 comments
• Up The Country

  I am back from up the country — very sorry that I went —
  Seeking for the Southern poets' land whereon to pitch my tent;

  by Henry Lawson 61 lines
• Once each apiece all round

  'Suddenly out went the lights
  Without the slightest warning,

  by Stanley Holloway 28 lines
• The Old Black Billy an' Me

  The sheep are yarded, an’ I sit
  

  by Louis Esson 11 lines, 1 comment
• Delirium (joking at illness)

  
  I don't want to come, yet suddenly I'm here;

  by Yuan Mei 9 lines, 4 comments
• Here's a Bottle

  There's nane that's blest of human kind
  But the cheerful and the gay, man.

  by Robert Burns 11 lines, 1 comment
• Cleaning Up

  When the horse has been unharnessed and we've flushed the old machine,
  And the water o'er the sluice is running evenly and clean;

  by Edward Dyson 36 lines
• A Little Poem

  A happy vicar I might have been
  Two hundred years ago

  by George Orwell 36 lines, 3 comments
• The Loveable Characters

  I long for the streets but the Lord knoweth best,
  For there I am never a saint;

  by Henry Lawson 32 lines
• A Penitential Week

  The week had gloomily begun
  For Willie Weeks, a poor man's

  by Carolyn Wells 27 lines, 2 comments
• Two ‘Mericana Men

  Beeg Irish cop dat walk hees beat
  By den peanutta stan’,

  by Thomas Augustine Daly 36 lines
• Elegy

  I know but will not tell
  you, Aunt Irene, why there

  by Alan Dugan 5 lines, 6 comments
• The Cockney Soul

  From Woolwich and Brentford and Stamford Hill, from Richmond into the Strand,
  Oh, the Cockney soul is a silent soul – as it is in every land!

  by Henry Lawson 28 lines
• The Purple Cow : Suite

  Ah, Yes! I Wrote the "Purple Cow" --
  I'm Sorry, now, I Wrote it!

  by Gelett Burgess 4 lines, 3 comments
• Policeman G.

  To Policeman G. the Inspector said:
  "When you pass the 'shops' you must turn your head;

  by A B Banjo Paterson 33 lines
• The Flour Bin

  By Lawson's Hill, near Mudgee,
  On old Eurunderee –

  by Henry Lawson 48 lines
• A Word to Texas Jack

  Texas Jack, you are amusin’. By Lord Harry, how I laughed
  When I seen yer rig and saddle with its bulwarks fore-and-aft;

  by Henry Lawson 70 lines
• Love Song

  Have you love for me,
  Yours my love shall be,

  by Bjornstjerne Bjornson 36 lines

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