Humor & Wit Poems

Lighthearted, satirical, and cleverly playful poems.

355 poems in this category

Poems in Humor & Wit

A Sea Dirge — by Lewis Carroll
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; or, Prologue to the Satires. — by Alexander Pope
Epitaph. Another, on the Same. — by Alexander Pope
If Loue be blind — by John Milton
Mac Flecknoe — by John Dryden
No, Thank You John — by Christina Rossetti
Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff — by John Keats
Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc. — by Robert Burns
An Enigma — by Edgar Allan Poe
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
John Barleycorn: A Ballad — by Robert Burns
Beatrice And Hero — by Robert Browning
Epilogue to the Satires. — by Alexander Pope
First Week — by Robert Frost
Forbidden Fruit A Flavor Has — by Emily Dickinson
An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog — by Oliver Goldsmith
Another Acrostic ( In the style of Father William ) — by Lewis Carroll
A Lyric to Mirth — by Robert Herrick
Absalom And Achitophel — by John Dryden
Beppo: A Venetian Story — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Heaven — by Rupert Brooke
If I Should Die — by Ben King
Ballad. to the Tune of "Salley in Our Alley." — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Death and Dr. Hornbook — by Robert Burns
Funny -- to be a Century — by Emily Dickinson
"Arcturus" is his other name — by Emily Dickinson
A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers — by Jonathan Swift
Blow, breezes, blow! — by Coventry Patmore
Braggart — by John Clare
Chaucer. — by Alexander Pope
Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster — by Robert Burns
Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh — by Robert Burns
Epitaph on a Lap-dog — by Robert Burns
Faithless Nelly Gray — by Thomas Hood
Faithless Sally Brown — by Thomas Hood
Goody Blake, And Harry Gill, A True Story. — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Jolly Good Ale and Old — by Anonymous (16th Cent.)
Chispa's News — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Epigram on a Suicide — by Robert Burns
Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary — by Robert Burns
La Violette — by John Donne
M'Fingal - Canto II — by John Trumbull
M'Fingal - Canto III — by John Trumbull
M'Fingal - Canto IV — by John Trumbull
Nephelidia — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
No Fault In Women — by Robert Herrick
Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant. a Tragedy in Two Acts — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Consolation to his Friend — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
A Sketch — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Volume of Nonsense — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Aristotle — by Thomas Gray
Bilem Supe, Jocum Vestri Movere Tumultus — by Thomas Gray
Bowles and Campbell — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Chearly Boyes — by John Milton
Cry mercy critic, and thy book withhold: — by Thomas Gray
DamæTas — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790 — by Robert Burns
Encouragement — by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Epigram — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epilogue — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epistle From Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epistle to J. Lapraik — by Christina Rossetti (1785)
Epistle to Mr. Murray — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epitaph — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epitaph for William Pitt — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epitaph on John Adams, of Southwell, a Carrier, Who Died of Drunkenness — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Farewell to Malta — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
From "The Parish: A Satire" — by John Clare
Lines Addressed by Lord Byron to Mr. Hobhouse on His Election for Westminster — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lines to a Critic — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lines to a Reviewer — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Occasioned by the Former — by Sara Teasdale
A Hate-Song — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Sweltering Day In Australia — by Mark Twain
A Wall Flower — by Amy Levy
Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 2 — by Robert Burns
Circumstance — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Epigram on the Braziers' Address to Be Presented in _Armour_ by the Company to Queen Caroline — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Fragment of a Satire on Satire — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Herbert Quote — by William Butler Yeats (1868)
Hints From Horace — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Gentleman — by Edward Thomas
A little Dog that wags his tail — by Emily Dickinson
Ballade of a Special Edition — by Amy Levy
Caesar and Cleopatra — by Robert W. Service (1900)
E Nihilo Nihil; or an Epigram Bewitched — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epigrams — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epitaph for Joseph Blacket, Late Poet and Shoemaker — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Farewell Petition to J.C.H., Esq^Re^ — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
I've a Pain in my Head — by Jane Austen
Impromptu — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Horologium — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lays of Sorrow — by Lewis Carroll
Lines in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Napoleon's Snuff-Box — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Fragment of an Epistle to Thomas Moore — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the Country — by John Wilmot
A Smiling Paradox — by St. Clair Adams
Artemisia. — by Alexander Pope
Brother And Sister — by Lewis Carroll
Democrite ride — by Thomas Gray
Letter From Torquay — by William Butler Yeats (1866)
Lord Byron's Verses on Sam Rogers — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Monody on a Tea-kettle. — by Sara Teasdale (1796)
Ode to the Goddess Ceres — by Thomas Moore
On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Letter to Joe — by Christina Rossetti (1850)
A Note on the Text — by Robert W. Service
A Parody on “A Psalm of Life” — by Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Poem — by George Herbert (2023)
A savory pork pie — by Christina Rossetti
A Smiling Paradox — by John Kendrick Bangs
Absalom And Achitophel. — by Edward Fitzgerald (1681)
Another Simple Ballat — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Avertissement — by John Donne
Ballad of women i love — by Eugene Field
Bread — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Capulet's Welcome — by John Milton
Drinking Song — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Epigram on a Visit to Inverary — by Edward Fitzgerald
Epigram on an Old Lady Who Had Some Curious Notions Respecting the Soul — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Hypolito's Jest — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lines in Praise of the Lyric Club Banquet — by William Topaz McGonagall
Mercutio's Mockery — by John Milton
My Boy Hobbie O — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
My Watch — by Amy Lowell (1870)
(no title found) — by Robert W. Service
A Lover's Lullaby — by George Gascoigne
A Mathematical Problem. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
A Pedlar — by Unknown (1600)
After what manner Gargantua had his name given him, and how he tippled, bibbed, and curried the can. — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Always Audible — by Sara Teasdale
Decade the First, V. — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Decade the First, VI. — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Decade the First, VII. — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Epigram. From the French of RulhièRes — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Epistle to Mrs Teresa Blount. on Her Leaving the Town After the Coronation. — by Alexander Pope
Falstaff — by Walter de la Mare (null)
Hey nonny no! — by Unknown (16th Cent.)
How Gargantua was born in a strange manner — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
IMITATION OF HORACE — by Robert W. Service (1794)
Lines to Mr. Hodgson. Written on Board the Lisbon Packet — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Merciles Beaute: 3. Escape — by Geoffrey Chaucer (1380)
N/A — by Carl Sandburg
No Poems Found — by Carl Sandburg
Not a poem — by Carl Sandburg
On a Royal Visit to the Vaults. or Caesar's Discovery of C.I. and H. 8. in Ye Same Vault — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On All Fools — by Thomas Gray
On Excommunication of Pests — by Robert Frost (1120)
On Lord Thurlow's Poems — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On Moore's Last Operatic Farce, or Farcical Opera — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On My Wedding-Day — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On Napoleon's Escape From Elba — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On the Eyes of Miss a----H--- — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations — by Robert Burns
On the Quotation, — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ownership — by St. Clair Adams
Parenthetical Address. by Dr. Plagiary — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Patty Proud — by Lydia Sigourney
Perspiration. A Travelling Eclogue. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
Peter Bell the Third. by Miching Mallecho, Esq — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Phantasmagoria CANTO VII ( Sad Souvenaunce ) — by Lewis Carroll
Phryne. — by Alexander Pope
Picnic-time — by Eugene Field
Platero Y Yo — by Edgar Allan Poe (1922)
Poem 1 — by Edward Fitzgerald
Political Economy — by Amy Lowell (1865)
Polly Mooney — by Robert Herrick (1914)
POLONIUS — by Walter de la Mare (null)
Prof. vere de blaw — by Eugene Field
Proposition the First. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale — by Edmund Spenser
Rabelais to the Reader — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Safety-Clutch — by Ambrose Bierce
Satire I. to Mr Fortescue. — by Alexander Pope
Satire II. — by Alexander Pope
Satire II. to Mr Bethel. — by Alexander Pope
Saved by Music — by William Topaz McGonagall
Scandal — by John Clare
Sganarelle — by John Donne
Sister's cake — by Eugene Field
Sixth Week — by Robert Frost
Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Son to Deal — by Robert Herrick
Song (Go And Catch A Falling Star) — by John Donne
Song—Gudewife, count the lawin — by Robert Burns
Song—O aye my wife she dang me — by Robert Burns
Song—Sic a Wife as Willie had — by Robert Burns
Song—The Deuks dang o’er my Daddie — by Robert Burns
Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,' — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LIX: As Love and I — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet Reversed — by Rupert Brooke
Sonnet XXI: A Witless Galant — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet XXII: With Fools and Children — by Michael Drayton
Spirit Of The Tennessee Press — by Amy Lowell
Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719 — by Jonathan Swift
Sugar — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale — by Robert Burns
Tam O'Shanter — by Robert Burns
That Women Are But Men's Shadows — by Ben Jonson
The Akond of Swat — by Edward Lear (1872)
The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod — by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Antidoted Fanfreluches: or, a Galimatia of extravagant Conceits found in an ancient Monument — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
The Aziola — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Bench-Legged Fyce — by Eugene Field
The Bibliomaniac's Prayer — by Eugene Field
The Blues: A Literary Eclogue — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The bow-leg boy — by Eugene Field
The Bread's Lament — by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1901)
The butterfly obtains — by Emily Dickinson
The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's Tale of Meliboeus. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. The Clerk's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. The Cook's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. The Friar's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. The Manciple's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. The Merchant's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. The Miller's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. The Monk's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. The Reeve's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. The Sompnour's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales. The Squire's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cat — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County — by Amy Lowell (1872)
The Cellar Door — by John Clare
The Character Of Holland — by Andrew Marvell
The Charity Ball — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Child Is Father To The Man — by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Christmas Goose — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Clock's Smile — by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1901)
The Conversazzhony — by Eugene Field
The Courtship of the Yonghy Bonghy Bò. — by Edward Lear (1872)
The Cow in Apple-Time — by Robert Frost (1923)
The Cyclops — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly — by Edward Lear (1872)
The Dance — by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
The delectable ballad of the waller lot — by Eugene Field
The Devil's Drive — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Devil's Walk. a Ballad — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Dirty Old Man — by William Allingham
The Discourse of the Drinkers — by Edgar Lee Masters
The Dog And His Master — by Anne Kingsmill Finch
The Dog's Joy — by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1901)
The Dong with a Lonesome Bong — by Edward Lear (1872)
The Duck and the Kangaroo — by Edward Lear (1872)
The Escape from the Hulks — by Christina Rossetti
The Feast Begins — by John Milton
The Fisherman and His Wife (poem) — by Coventry Patmore
The Flower must not blame the Bee — by Emily Dickinson
The Frog He Went a-Courting — by Amy Lowell (1872)
The Glove — by Robert Browning
The Good-Natured Girls — by Jane Taylor
The Happy Life of a Country Parson. — by Alexander Pope
The Height of the Ridiculous — by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Henpecked Husband — by Robert Burns
The Huxter — by Edward Thomas
The Jumblies — by Edward Lear (1872)
The Jumping Frog — by Amy Lowell (1875)
The King of Brentford — by Christina Rossetti (1903)
The Little Dog's Day — by Rupert Brooke
THE MAD OLD WOMAN OF THE WOOD. — by Edward Lear (1921)
The Man And His Horse — by Anne Kingsmill Finch
The Man with the Blue Shirt — by Carl Sandburg (1916)
The Medal — by John Dryden
The New Duckling — by Alfred Noyes
The New Vestments — by Edward Lear (1872)
The New Vicar of Bray — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Notorious Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County — by Amy Lowell (1865)
The Old Cloak — by John Skelton
The Owl and the Pussy-cat — by Edward Lear (1871)
The Owl and the Pussycat — by Edward Lear (1871)
The Owl And The Sparrow — by John Trumbull
The Pert Chicken. — by Marian Douglas
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story — by Robert Browning
The Pobble Who Has No Toes — by Edward Lear (1872)
The Post Office — by Rabindranath Tagore
The Purloined Letter — by Rudyard Kipling
The Quangle — by Edward Lear (1872)
The Rape of the Lock: — by Alexander Pope
The Spanish Cavalier — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Story Of The Bad Little Boy — by Amy Lowell (1865)
The Story Of The Good Little Boy — by Amy Lowell (1865)
The Striped Bug — by Robert Frost
The Thousand-and-Second Night — by Rudyard Kipling
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade — by Rudyard Kipling (1898)
The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet — by John Milton
The Truth About hHorace — by Eugene Field
The Truth of Woman — by Sir Walter Scott
The Twa Dogs — by Robert Burns
The Twins — by Robert Browning
The Two Old Bachelors — by Edward Lear (1872)
The Unbearable One — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Vision of Judgment. by Quevedo Redivivus — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn. by Horace Hornem, Esq — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Whistle: A Ballad — by Robert Burns
The Wisdom of Folly — by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
The Wise Men of Greece — by Thomas Gray
The World Is Against Me — by Edgar A. Guest
The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo — by Edward Lear (1872)
There Was an Old Man in a Tree — by Edward Lear
There was an Old Man of Peru. — by Edward Lear (1921)
There was an Old Man of the Dee. — by Edward Lear (1921)
There was an Old Person of Bree. — by Edward Lear (1921)
This cannot anger him — by John Milton
This is not a poem. — by Alfred Noyes
This is not a poem. — by Robert W. Service
Those Annual Bills — by Amy Lowell (1865)
Though the Last Glimpse of Erin With Sorrow I See — by Thomas Moore
Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Three Little Mice — by Julia C. R. Dorr
To a Certain Modern Narcissus — by Sara Teasdale
To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author then Forty — by Matthew Prior
TO A FLY, ON THE BOSOM OF CHLOE, WHILE SLEEPING. — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
To a Friend [Charles Lamb] together with an Unfinished Poem. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
To a Lady with an Unruly and Ill-mannered Dog Who Bit several Persons of Importance — by Sir Walter Raleigh
To a Vain Lady — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To Harriet — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To Lord Thurlow — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To Melancholy — by John Kendrick Bangs
To Mistress Margaret Hussey — by John Skelton
To Mr John Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm-Powder. — by Alexander Pope
To Mr. Murray — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To Penelope — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To the Author of a Poem Entitled Successio. — by Alexander Pope
To the Author of a Sonnet — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To Thomas Moore — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
TO............. AN IMPROMTU. — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
Tom May's Death — by Andrew Marvell
Translation From Anacreon. Ode — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the _Medea_ of Euripides — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Tray — by Robert Browning
Tunbridge Wells — by John Wilmot
Untitled Poem — by Amy Lowell
Untitled Poem 1 — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Untitled Poem 1 — by Joseph Morris
Untitled Poem 2 — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Up at a Villa--Down in the City — by Robert Browning
Vegetable Total Depravity — by Robert Frost
Verses Found in a Summer-House at Hales-Owen — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Verses on a Cat — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Verses on Captain Grose — by Robert Burns
Versicles — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Welcome Gentlemen — by John Milton
When good manners, shall lie in one or two mens hands — by John Milton
When He Should Laugh — by Edward Thomas
Winter: My Secret — by Christina Rossetti
Written After Swimming From Sestos to Abydos — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
You are a sawcy Boy — by John Milton
You Are Old, Father William — by Lewis Carroll