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Subject: HUMORISTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABSURD, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fisher gives a mighty pull
Last Line: A short cross-counter nails him!
Subject(s): Humorists


CLOWNS' DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother fools from everywhere
Last Line: Let us use it soberly.
Subject(s): Clowns; Death; Humorists; Jesters; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The


HOW SINGULAR!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You cant's play football with a golfing stick--
Last Line: How curious is their way!
Subject(s): Humorists; Sports


HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 8. BRENNBAUM, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky-like limpid eyes
Last Line: "of brennbaum ""the impeccable."
Subject(s): Beerbohm, Max (1872-1956); Humorists


IT NEVER HAPPENED, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fullback bowed politely and made away
Last Line: "on more than one sure winner in a race!"
Subject(s): Humorists; Sports


ON A SENSE OF HUMOR, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He cannot be complete in aught
Last Line: Can hardly have a funny-bone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Humorists


ON THE DEPLORABLE LACK OF SCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICAN HUMORISTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold in me a heavy intellectual
Last Line: I wonder when I'll tumble to myself.
Subject(s): Humorists; Scholarship & Scholars


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#15): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND RIGOR, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You think it's funny, the dead man being stiff?
Last Line: You think it's hilarious, comedy upstanding, crackers to make sense of?
Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Humorists; Dead, The


THE PLAYED-OUT HUMORIST, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quixotic is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is
Last Line: That my mine of jocularity is worked completely out!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Subject(s): Humorists


THE PRACTICAL JOKER, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless
Last Line: Upon a friend a man may spend a most delightful day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Subject(s): Humorists; Practical Jokes; Pranks


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 6. HUMOR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: What light and air are to the things which grow
Last Line: By humorous quips of some icelandic spot.
Subject(s): Humorists; Life


TRAGEDIES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pitcher had a no-hit game
Last Line: This mark for quip and banter!
Subject(s): Humorists; Sports


UTTER FOLLIES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: An irishman named goldstein
Last Line: The hot dog is the wurst!
Subject(s): Humorists; Jokes


WELCOME TO MARK TWAIN, by LOUIS FRECHETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, sing, my muse, our honoured guest
Last Line: With fine old english humour!
Subject(s): Humorists; Laughter; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens)