Famous Humourous Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Humourous poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous humourous poems. These examples illustrate what a famous humourous poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Paterson, Andrew Barton
...owman astute
On that wily galoot
Soon dropped -- you'll be thinking he leathered him --
Not he; with a grim
Sort of humourous whim,
He took him and tarred him and feathered him.
Says he, "You can go
Round the world with a show,
And knock every Injun and Arab wry;
With your name and your trade
On the posters displayed,
The feathered what-is-it from Narrabri.
Next day for his freak
By a Narrabri Beak,
He was jawed with a deal of verbosity;
For his only ...Read more of this...
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