Poetic Humor

Beers, Henry A.      1847-1926		Biftek aux Champignons Fly-leaves From Arnold's Latin Prose Composition Sixpence For a Kiss What's in a Kiss
Bierce, Ambrose      1842-1914		The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ Decalogue The Statesmen Weather
Calverley, Charles Stuart:      1831-1884		Changed Forever Lines on Hearing the Organ Love     Morning Precious Stones Waiting Wanderers
Carroll, Lewis:      1832-1898		Father William How Doth the Little Crocodile Jabberwocky Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur     The Walrus and the Carpenter The White Knight's Song
Carryl, Guy Wetmore:      1901-1989		The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted How Jack Made the Giants Uncommonly Sore The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven
Collins, Billy:      b.1941		Litany Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
Cowper, William:      1869-1917		To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut, on Which           I Dined this Day, Monday April 26, 1784
Douglas, Norman:      1868-1952		Limericks: (There was a Young Lady of . . .)
Gray, Thomas:      1716-1771		On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned         in a Tub of Gold Fishes
Guiterman, Arthur:      1871-1943		First Dentistry was Painless Ode to the Amoeba On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness What One Approves, Another Scorns
Holmes, Oliver Wendell:      1809-1894		The Deacon's Masterpiece The Height of the Ridiculous The Last Leaf Parody on "A Psalm of Life"
Isherwood, Christopher:      1904-1986		The Common Cormorant
Joseph, Jenny:      b.1932		Warning
Levy, Newman:      1888-1966		Bluebeard Thaïs
Marquis, Don:      1878-1937		aesop revised by archy archy interviews a pharaoh pete the parrot and shakespeare song of mehitabel
Maxwell, Glyn:      b.1962		Deep Sorriness Atonement Song Rumpelstiltskin
McGinley, Phyllis:      b.1962		A Ballad of Anthologists
McGough, Roger:      b.1962		The Nearest Forty-two
Morgan, Edwin:      1920-2010		The Loch Ness Monster's Song The Subway Piranhas
Nash, Ogden:      1902-1971		Bankers are Just Like Anybody      Else, Except Richer The Hippopotamus I Do, I Will, I Have Peekaboo, I Almost See You To a Small Boy Standing On My     Shoes While I am Wearing Them    Portrait of the Artist as a       Prematurely Old Man So That's Who I Remind Me Of
Parker, Dorothy:      1893-1967		Comment One Perfect Rose Unfortunate Coincidence
Prelutsky, Jack:      b.1940		Bleezer's Ice Cream
Rooten, Luis d'Antin van:		Mots d'Heures, Gousses, Rames
Saxe, John Gordon:      1816-1887		The Blind Men and the Elephant
Stephens, James:      1882-1950		Righteous Anger
Synge, John M.:      1871-1909		The Curse
Watson, William:      1858-1935		Lines to our New Censor