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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HUMORISTS Matches Found: 14 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) |
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