Famous Sense Of Humour Poems by Famous Poets
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by
Lawson, Henry
...bs;
We froze together in parks at night,
And laughed together in pubs.
And I often hear a laugh like his
From a sense of humour keen,
And catch a glimpse in a passing phiz
Of his broad, good-humoured grin.
And I had a love -- 'twas a love to prize --
But I never went back again . . .
I have seen the light of her kind brown eyes
In many a face since then.
. . . . .
The sailors say 'twill be rough to-night,
As they fas...Read more of this...
by
Gregory, Rg
...next thursday the pink circle again appeared
to be a blue spot
the watchers congratulated themselves upon the circle's
sense of humour
and on the next thursday the earth came out in a
rash of blue spots
the watchers (finding themselves sitting on one) were
the first to die...Read more of this...
by
Lowell, Robert
...nse
as though a harpoon were sparring for the kill.
(This is the house for the "mentally ill.")
What use is my sense of humour?
I grin at Stanley, now sunk in his sixties,
once a Harvard all-American fullback,
(if such were possible!)
still hoarding the build of a boy in his twenties,
as he soaks, a ramrod
with a muscle of a seal
in his long tub,
vaguely urinous from the Victorian plumbing.
A kingly granite profile in a crimson gold-cap,
worn all day, all night, ...Read more of this...
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