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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HUMOR Matches Found: 106 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BAKER'S DUZZEN UV WIZE SAWZ, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Them ez wants, must choose Last Line: Them ez will, kin. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Wit & Humor A BALLAD OF BASEBALL BURDENS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burden of hard hitting. Slug away Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Baseball; Wit & Humor A MODEST WIT, by SELLECK OSBORNE Poem Text First Line: A supercilious nabob of the east Last Line: "a gentleman of you?" Subject(s): Social Classes; Wit & Humor; Caste A PIN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I know a certain woman who is reckoned with the good Last Line: To tidy up the world for me, by picking up this pin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Deception; Pins; Wit & Humor; Women AD IMPUDENTISSIMAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "audacious maid, when thee I meet" Last Line: But thought and speech both fail me / in wonder at thy cheek Subject(s): Wit & Humor ALAS!, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot write the old jokes Last Line: And I haven't got the files. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Humor; Jokes; Writing & Writers ALCIDA: VERSES WRITTEN UNDER CARVING OF MERCURY THROWING FEATHERS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The richest gift the wealthy heaven affords Last Line: Do burn themselves, like flies within the fire. Subject(s): Wit & Humor APPREHENDEE THEN EXITED VEE-HICLE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorry, said the cop who had shot me Subject(s): Identity; Police; Wit & Humor AQUEOUS HUMOR, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: At bottom, the world is water Last Line: High up, we swim in lanes in our bright tank suits Subject(s): Humor; Language; Water BALLADE OF MODEST CONFESSION, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My reading is extremely deep and wide Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Humor BALLADE OF THE COMIC MUSE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Hail! Mistress of the merry tongue Last Line: When we may court thee, comic muse! Subject(s): Humor; Muses BASEBALL, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the time I got my first baseman's mitt Subject(s): Baseball; Wit & Humor; Dean, Dizzy (1910-1974); Kisses BASEBALL?ÇÖS SAD LEXICON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hese are the saddest of possible words Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Baseball; Wit & Humor BEHOLD THE DEEDS!; CHANT ROYAL, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would that all men my [hard] case would [or, might] know Last Line: Behold the deeds that are done of mrs. Jones! Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Landlords & Tenants BRICKS AND STRAW, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My desk is cleared of the litter of ages Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wit & Humor CHARADES: 6, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sikes, housebreaker, of houndsditch Last Line: To witness if I lie. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COLOMBIAN JOKE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day god Last Line: Watching what happens Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Creation; Washington, D.c.; Wit & Humor COMIC MISERIES, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear young friend, whose shining wit Last Line: To be a funny man! Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But our great turks in wit must reign alone Last Line: And ill can bear a brother on the throne. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wit is like faith by such warm fools profest Last Line: Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 3, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some who grow dull religious strait commence Last Line: And gain in morals what they lose in sence. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 4, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wits starve as useless to a common weal Last Line: While fools have places purely for their zeal. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 5, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now wits gain praise by copying other wits Last Line: As one hog lives on what another sh--. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 6, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wou'd you your writings to some palates fit Last Line: They praise no works but what are like their own. Subject(s): Wit & Humor DIAGNOSIS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: By the time I was six months old, she knew something Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Children; Childhood DIXIT, ET IN MENSAM, by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, don't look so glum and so sanctified, please Last Line: Il n'est jamais de mal en bon compagnie. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Shirley Variant Title(s): There's Never Harm In Good Company Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Risque DOCTOR, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The patient cries, give me back feeling Last Line: Avidly without pause Variant Title(s): Resolution Subject(s): Physicians; Wit & Humor DON'T GRIN, OR YOU'LL HAVE TO BEAR IT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is better in the long run to possess an abscess or a tumor Last Line: And people who have a sense of humor are extremely gullible,%but not enough so to believe that they Subject(s): Wit And Humor DOT LONG-HANDLED DIPPER, by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Der boet may sing off 'der oldt oaken bookit' Last Line: Sink. Alternate Author Name(s): Strauss, Yawcob Subject(s): Wit & Humor EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO COURT: 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They may talk of the goddesses in ida vales Last Line: But you show your wit, whereas they show'd their tails. Subject(s): Wit & Humor EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO COURT: 6, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say argyll's a wit for what? Last Line: For writing? No, -- for writing not. Subject(s): Wit & Humor FABLES: 1ST SER. 46. THE CUR, THE HORSE, & SHEPHERD'S DOG, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lad, of all-sufficient merit Last Line: Thou hadst not, like a puppy, dy'd. Subject(s): Wit & Humor FEMININE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She might have known it in the earlier spring Last Line: "my neck and cried, ""love, we have lost a year!" Variant Title(s): A Woman's Way Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Time; Women FULL SWEET OF A TRUTH IS THE SPARKLE OF WINE, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Wine; Water; Drinks & Drinking GIOVANNI FRANCHI, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The threewomen who all walked Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Wit & Humor HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take the long walk up the staircase to my secret room. Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Wit & Humor HOW THE POPE IS CHOSEN, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Any poodle under ten inches high is a toy. Subject(s): Dogs; Popes; Hair; Wit & Humor; Papacy HUMOR, by LUDWIG FULDA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God humor is a sturdy sprite Last Line: I wish him at the devil. Subject(s): Humor HUMOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grayness of cold in the woods and the sky Last Line: Humor, the light in the window of life! Subject(s): Wit & Humor HUSH, HUSH, / NOBODY CARES, by JOHN CAMERON AUDRIEU BINGHAM MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Has fallen / downstairs Alternate Author Name(s): Beachcomber; Morton, J. B.; Morton, John Bingham Subject(s): Milne, Alan Alexander (1882-1956); Wit & Humor I CANNOT DANCE UPON MY TOES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It's full as opera— Subject(s): Ballet; Wit & Humor I SEND TWO SUNSETS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To carry in the hand Subject(s): Wit & Humor IF FUN IS FUN, ISN'T THAT ENOUGH?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child, the temptation please resist Last Line: This motto, child, is my bequest: %there's many a false word spoken in jest Subject(s): Wit And Humor IMITATION OF SWIFT, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boy! Bring an ounce of freeman's best Subject(s): Tobacco; Wit & Humor; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) IMITATION OF THOMSON, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, matured by glad hesperian suns Subject(s): Thomson, James (1700-1748); Wit & Humor IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Wit & Humor; Race Awareness; Grief; Jews; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism IN THE COACH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, comin' home from the north sea fishin'. Last Line: "jus' a lil dunkey." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Buses; Yarns KING COMMITTEE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the nice demure congressional committee Last Line: Stick my tongue, a mite sarcastic, in my cheek Subject(s): United States – Congress; Wit & Humor LIMERICK, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That volatile poet called jonathan Last Line: But folks think he's just making fun o'them Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Williams, Jonathan (1929-2008); Wit & Humor LINES WRITTEN ON WINDOWS OF THE GLOBE INN, DUMFRIES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou greybeard, old wisdom, may boast of thy treasures Last Line: But folly has raptures to give. Subject(s): Religion; Wit & Humor LORD FINCHLEY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord finchley tried to mend the electric light Last Line: To give employment to the artisan. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Wealth; Labor; Wit & Humor; Riches; Fortunes LORD HEYGATE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord heygate had a troubled face Last Line: About this unimportant peer Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Furnishings; Simplicity; Wit & Humor LORD LUNDY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord lundy from his earliest years Last Line: How gracious! How lord lundy cried! Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Crying; Politics & Government LOYALTY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hardest part Subject(s): Reincarnation; Dogs; Politics & Government; Wit & Humor; Transmigration; Pretas MR. ATTILA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They made a myth of you, professor Subject(s): Attila, King Of The Huns (434-453); Academia; Wit & Humor MRS DARWIN, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Went to the zoo. Subject(s): Evolution; Wit & Humor MRS ICARUS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Icarus MY LORD TOMNODDY, by ROBERT BARNABAS BROUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord tomnoddy's the son of an earl Last Line: He's the earl of fitzdotterel's eldest son. Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Nobility NOSTALGIA, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the 1340s? We were doing a dance called the catapult Subject(s): Wit & Humor NOTHING EVER SO SINCERE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It wont prove a bore to hear Subject(s): Sincerity; Wit & Humor ODE: OF WIT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, o tell me, what kind of thing is wit Last Line: I'll onely shew your lines, and say, 'tis this. Variant Title(s): Of Wit;amphion Subject(s): Wit & Humor ODYSSEY, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat in different places with different winds: Last Line: If it's ever considered being thrown Subject(s): Wit & Humor ON A GREAT ELECTION, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The accursed power which stands on privilege Last Line: Which goes with bridge, and women and champagne Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Democracy; Wit & Humor ON COMMISSARY GOLDIE'S BRAINS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, to account who dares thee call Last Line: Enclose so poor a treasure? Subject(s): Politics & Government; Wit & Humor ON MAXWELL OF CARDONESS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless jesus christ, o cardoness Last Line: Then hadst thou lain for ever. Subject(s): Death; Wit & Humor ON SEEING THE BEAUTIFUL SEAT OF LORD GALLOWAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dost thou in that mansion fair Last Line: The picture of thy mind. Subject(s): Social Classes; Wit & Humor ON THE SUBJECT OF DOCTORS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I like to see doctors cough Subject(s): Physicians; Wit & Humor; Doctors PARABLE FOR A CERTAIN VIRGIN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine; Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Wit & Humor PARTIAL COMFORT, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose love is given over-well Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love; Wit & Humor PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: INTRODUCTORY, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou beautiful, o my daughter, as the budding rose of april? Last Line: Ladies shall marvel at its beauty, and a lord shall pluck it at the last. Subject(s): Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF FRIENDSHIP, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Choose judiciously thy friends; for to discard Last Line: For an enraptured public to muse upon over their matutinal muffin. Subject(s): Friendship – Selectivity; Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF PROPRIETY, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Study first propriety: for she is indeed the pole-star Last Line: Tasteth of the cork. Subject(s): Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF READING, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Read not milton, for he is dry, nor shakespeare Last Line: And if thou canst not realize the ideal, thou shalt at least idealize the real. Subject(s): Books; Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor; Reading REBECCA; WHO SLAMMED DOORS FOR FUN AND PERISHED MISERABLY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trick that everyone abhors Last Line: -- as often they had done before. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably Subject(s): Children; Doors; Wit & Humor; Childhood SIMPLE ENGLISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Ofttimes when I put on my gloves Last Line: All right if I am deft. Variant Title(s): Simple English; Tongue-twister Subject(s): Gloves; Humor; Mittens; Muffs SONG, by ELIZABETH TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Ye virgin powers defend my heart Last Line: Returns into my breast. Subject(s): Love; Truth; Wit & Humor TERROR OF THE FUTURE / 4, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You had to win the sweepstakes Last Line: So what if the grass was really green glass? Subject(s): Wit & Humor THE BIRTHDAY COW, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy mooday to you Last Line: Happy mooday to you Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Cows THE BITER BIT, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is in the sky, mother, the flowers are springing fair Last Line: Draw me a pot of beer, mother, and, mother, draw it mild! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Love - Materialism; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FAMILY FOOL, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon Last Line: They don't blame you—so long as you're funny! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Family Life; Fools; Humor; Relatives; Idiots THE FINAL MORBIDITY OF THE INTERIOR EMBEZZLER, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've made a little sluice-gate in the flow Last Line: And writing down what I need to forget Subject(s): Money; Wit & Humor THE FLAT-HUNTER'S WAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We think we'll stay another year. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Family Life; City Snd Town Life; Wity And Humor; Apartments; Central Park, New York City; Relatives THE HANGOVER, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Hangover; Wit & Humor THE HAPPY LITTLE WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, gudhand, have you sold the cow Last Line: To be all in all through life. Subject(s): Marriage; Humor; Farm Life THE JOLLY BEGGARS; A CANTATA RECITATIVO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lyart leaves bestrow the yird Last Line: One and all cry out, amen! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poverty; Brotherhood; Seduction; Wit & Humor; Labor & Laborers THE NEW CHINESE FICTION, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the depiction of living forms Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Motion Pictures; Wit & Humor; Movies; Cinema THE OBJECTION TO BEING STEPPED ON, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the row Last Line: Turned into a weapon Subject(s): Accidents; Tools; Wit & Humor THE RUBAIYAT OF CARL BURELL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a young fellow, begad Last Line: And was eaten alive by a sun-dew. Subject(s): Wit & Humor THE SEAMY SIDE OF MOTLEY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, when we sat together Last Line: Funny every day. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Editors; Humor; Writing & Writers; Reading THE SELF-SEEKER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willis, I didn’t want you here to-day Last Line: "good-bye."" he flung his arms around his face." Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Wit & Humor THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enthused I went to yale, enthused Subject(s): Human Behavior; Wit & Humor; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WISE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Art thou that she than whom no fairer is Last Line: "my wit doth teach me shun / such foolish, foolish men" Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Wit & Humor THE WORKFORCE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Do you have adequate oxen for the job? Subject(s): Jobs; Women; Wit & Humor THERE'S A BOWER OF BEAN-VINES, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bower of bean-vines in benjamin's yard Last Line: Is that bower of bean-vines in benjamin's yard. Subject(s): Beans; Humor TO -, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir / yours this moment I unseal Last Line: Robert burns. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Religion; Wit & Humor TO HER, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sinnert a, to me unknown Subject(s): Sins; Humor And Wit TO HIS HONOURED FRIEND, SIR JOHN MYNTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For civill, cleane, and circumcised wit Last Line: The calculation of thy birth, brave mince. Subject(s): Wit & Humor VELVET ROPE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Just what goes on in this cartoon? Last Line: All you'll lose is fifty cents Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Humor; Music And Musicians W IS FOR WELL, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alphabets; Wit & Humor WHAT NEWS, WHAT NEWS? QUEEN ORRACA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Poetry & Poets WHAT SHE SAID, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When he told me he expected me to pay for dinner Subject(s): Wit & Humor WHEN LOUNGING IDLE MID FORENSIC WHIRL, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poet's Biography First Line: Http://books.Google.Com/books?Id=iu0vkq3dl7yc&pg=pa6&dq=catullus+%22when+lounging+idle+mid+forensic+ Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Humor WHY'S/WISE: WISE 1, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If you ever find / yourself Last Line: To get / out! Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Wit & Humor; Negroes; American Blacks WIT OF THE CORPSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is lost on the lid of the coffin Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Nature; Wit And Humor WITT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: But who has witt enough to tell / me what it is? Last Line: Tis best, and I had rather wise than witty be. Subject(s): Story-telling; Wisdom; Wit & Humor Y IS FOR YARN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wool that's unwound Subject(s): Alphabets; Wit & Humor |
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