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