Humor
42 poems
Wordplay, absurdity, self-mockery: funny poems, because poetry knows how to laugh too. Read them on Loëly.
To a Cat
John Keats
A Bird came down the Walk
Emily Dickinson
A description of a City Shower
Jonathan Swift
A Highly valuable chain of thoughts
Andrew Lang
A Song about Myself
John Keats
After Aesop
James Henry
Poematia
Ale
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
An Echo
Jonathan Swift
An Elegy
Oliver Goldsmith
An Explanation
James Weldon Johnson
Anacreontic by a Footman
Thomas Hood
Answer to Prayer
James Weldon Johnson
Bantams in Pine-woods
Wallace Stevens
Capel Calvin
Idris Davies
Carmina I - To whom am I to present my pretty new book
Gaius Catulle
Carmina VI - Flavius, if it were not that your mistress
Gaius Catulle
Description of an author's bed-Chamber
Oliver Goldsmith
Epitaph
William Soutar
For Paul Laurence Dunbar
Countee Cullen
Heaven
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
If You Don't Know What's A True Friend
James Henry
Poematia
Lazy
James Weldon Johnson
Limerick
Dylan Thomas
On a Cannon
Jonathan Swift
On a Circle
Jonathan Swift
On Oxford
John Keats
On the five senses
Jonathan Swift
On the Posteriors
Jonathan Swift
On the Vowels
Jonathan Swift
Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus in a Painting of 'The Judgement of Paris'
Robert Browning
She is far from the land
Thomas Hood
Sonnet Reversed
Rupert Brooke
The Beginning Of The Armadilloes
Rudyard Kipling
The Camel's Hump
Rudyard Kipling
The gift of Iris
Oliver Goldsmith
The Little Dog's Day
Rupert Brooke
The Railway Train
Emily Dickinson
The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade
Wallace Stevens
The Tunning of Elinor Rumming
John Skelton
To A Honey Bee
Philip Freneau
To Mr. Blanchard, the Celebrated Aeronaut in America
Philip Freneau
Two or Three Posies
John Keats