Humorous Poems
Humorous
John Wilmot - A Letter From Artemesia In The Town To Chloe In The Country
Chloe,In verse by your command I write.Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with our sex agree Than.- Humorous poems.
Lisel Mueller - Alive Together
Speaking of marvels, I am alivetogether with you, when I might have beenalive with anyone under the sun,when I might have been Abelard's.- Humorous poems.
William Butler Yeats - Beggar To Beggar Cried
'Time to put off the world and go somewhereAnd find my health again in the sea air,'Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,'And.- Humorous poems.
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Captain Craig
II doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him by his name, or looked at him So curiously,.- Humorous poems.
Mary Oliver - Catbird
He picks his pond, and the soft thicket of his world.He bids his lady come, and she does, flirting with her tail.He begins early, and.- Humorous poems.
Czeslaw Milosz - Child Of Europe
1We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day.Who in May admire trees floweringAre better than those who perished.We, who taste of.- Humorous poems.
T S Eliot - Conversation Galante
I OBSERVE: “Our sentimental friend the moon!Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)It may be Prester John’s balloonOr an old battered.- Humorous poems.
Allen Ginsberg - Death & Fame
When I dieI don't care what happens to my bodythrow ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East Riverbury an urn in Elizabeth New Jersey,.- Humorous poems.
Charles Bukowski - For The Foxes
don't feel sorry for me.I am a competent,satisfied human being.be sorry for the otherswhofidgetcomplainwho constantlyrearrange the.- Humorous poems.
Sidney Lanier - From The Flats.
What heartache -- ne'er a hill!Inexorable, vapid, vague and chillThe drear sand-levels drain my spirit low.With one poor word they.- Humorous poems.
Lord Alfred Tennyson - Geraint And Enid
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves, By taking true for.- Humorous poems.
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Her Eyes
Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where his days he spent, And the.- Humorous poems.
John Donne - Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:Inconstancy unnaturally hath begotA constant habit; that when I would notI change in vows, and.- Humorous poems.
Allen Ginsberg - Howl
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical.- Humorous poems.
William Butler Yeats - In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen
Five-and-twenty years have goneSince old William pollexfenLaid his strong bones down in deathBy his wife ElizabethIn the grey stone.- Humorous poems.
Ellis Parker Butler - Jabed Meeker, Humorist
Twain? Oh, yes, I’ve heard Mark TwainHeard him down to Pleasant Plain;Funny? Yes, I guess so. FolksSeemed to laugh loud at his jokes—Laughed.- Humorous poems.
Robert William Service - Kings Must Die
Alphonso Rex who died in RomeWas quite a fistful as a kid;For when I visited his home,That gorgeous palace in Madrid,The grinning guide-chap.- Humorous poems.
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Lancelot
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King’s garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded arms And.- Humorous poems.
John Dryden - Mac Flecknoe
All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey:This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, youngWas.- Humorous poems.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Mithridates
I cannot spare water or wine,Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose;From the earth-poles to the Line,All between that works or grows,Every.- Humorous poems.
Mary Oliver - Morning Glories
Blue and dark-blue rose and deepest rose white and pink they are everywhere in the diligent cornfield rising.- Humorous poems.
Charles Bukowski - Nirvana
not much chance,completely cut loose frompurpose,he was a young manriding a busthrough North Carolinaon the wat to somewhereand it.- Humorous poems.
John Milton - Sonnet 13
XIIITo Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd SongFirst taught our English Musick how to spanWords with just.- Humorous poems.
Michael Drayton - Sonnet VII: Love In A Humour
Love in a humor play'd the prodigal And bade my Senses to a solemn feast; Yet, more to grace the company withal, Invites my Heart to.- Humorous poems.
Michael Drayton - Sonnet XIX: You Cannot Love
To HumorYou cannot love, my pretty heart, and why? There was a time you told me that you would; But now again you will the same deny,.- Humorous poems.
Chloe,In verse by your command I write.Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with our sex agree Than.- Humorous poems.
Lisel Mueller - Alive Together
Speaking of marvels, I am alivetogether with you, when I might have beenalive with anyone under the sun,when I might have been Abelard's.- Humorous poems.
William Butler Yeats - Beggar To Beggar Cried
'Time to put off the world and go somewhereAnd find my health again in the sea air,'Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,'And.- Humorous poems.
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Captain Craig
II doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him by his name, or looked at him So curiously,.- Humorous poems.
Mary Oliver - Catbird
He picks his pond, and the soft thicket of his world.He bids his lady come, and she does, flirting with her tail.He begins early, and.- Humorous poems.
Czeslaw Milosz - Child Of Europe
1We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day.Who in May admire trees floweringAre better than those who perished.We, who taste of.- Humorous poems.
T S Eliot - Conversation Galante
I OBSERVE: “Our sentimental friend the moon!Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)It may be Prester John’s balloonOr an old battered.- Humorous poems.
Allen Ginsberg - Death & Fame
When I dieI don't care what happens to my bodythrow ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East Riverbury an urn in Elizabeth New Jersey,.- Humorous poems.
Charles Bukowski - For The Foxes
don't feel sorry for me.I am a competent,satisfied human being.be sorry for the otherswhofidgetcomplainwho constantlyrearrange the.- Humorous poems.
Sidney Lanier - From The Flats.
What heartache -- ne'er a hill!Inexorable, vapid, vague and chillThe drear sand-levels drain my spirit low.With one poor word they.- Humorous poems.
Lord Alfred Tennyson - Geraint And Enid
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves, By taking true for.- Humorous poems.
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Her Eyes
Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where his days he spent, And the.- Humorous poems.
John Donne - Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:Inconstancy unnaturally hath begotA constant habit; that when I would notI change in vows, and.- Humorous poems.
Allen Ginsberg - Howl
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical.- Humorous poems.
William Butler Yeats - In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen
Five-and-twenty years have goneSince old William pollexfenLaid his strong bones down in deathBy his wife ElizabethIn the grey stone.- Humorous poems.
Ellis Parker Butler - Jabed Meeker, Humorist
Twain? Oh, yes, I’ve heard Mark TwainHeard him down to Pleasant Plain;Funny? Yes, I guess so. FolksSeemed to laugh loud at his jokes—Laughed.- Humorous poems.
Robert William Service - Kings Must Die
Alphonso Rex who died in RomeWas quite a fistful as a kid;For when I visited his home,That gorgeous palace in Madrid,The grinning guide-chap.- Humorous poems.
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Lancelot
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King’s garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded arms And.- Humorous poems.
John Dryden - Mac Flecknoe
All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey:This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, youngWas.- Humorous poems.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Mithridates
I cannot spare water or wine,Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose;From the earth-poles to the Line,All between that works or grows,Every.- Humorous poems.
Mary Oliver - Morning Glories
Blue and dark-blue rose and deepest rose white and pink they are everywhere in the diligent cornfield rising.- Humorous poems.
Charles Bukowski - Nirvana
not much chance,completely cut loose frompurpose,he was a young manriding a busthrough North Carolinaon the wat to somewhereand it.- Humorous poems.
John Milton - Sonnet 13
XIIITo Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd SongFirst taught our English Musick how to spanWords with just.- Humorous poems.
Michael Drayton - Sonnet VII: Love In A Humour
Love in a humor play'd the prodigal And bade my Senses to a solemn feast; Yet, more to grace the company withal, Invites my Heart to.- Humorous poems.
Michael Drayton - Sonnet XIX: You Cannot Love
To HumorYou cannot love, my pretty heart, and why? There was a time you told me that you would; But now again you will the same deny,.- Humorous poems.
