Humor poems

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At The Burns Centennial

© James Russell Lowell

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A hundred years! they're quickly fled,

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The Mood O’ The Earth

© Madison Julius Cawein

My heart is high, is high, my dear,
  And the warm wind sunnily blows;
  My heart is high with a mood that's cheer,
  And burns like a sun-blown rose.

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A Prize Poem

© Henry Timrod

A fairy ring

Drawn in the crimson of a battle-plain -

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Effigy Of A Nun

© Sara Teasdale

Infinite gentleness, infinite irony
Are in this face with fast-sealed eyes,
And round this mouth that learned in loneliness
How useless their wisdom is to the wise.

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Sunrise

© Emma Lazarus

Weep for the martyr! Strew his bier

With the last roses of the year;

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The Kalevala - Rune XIII

© Elias Lönnrot

LEMMINIKAINEN'S SECOND WOOING.


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Face Lift

© Sylvia Plath

You bring me good news from the clinic,

Whipping off your silk scarf, exhibiting the tight white

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Behram And Eddetma

© Madison Julius Cawein

  Dazzled, six days he sat, a staring trance;
  But on the seventh, casting stupor off,
  Rose, and the straitness of the case that held
  Him as with manacles of knitted fire,
  Considered, and decided on a way....

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Philiper Flash

© James Whitcomb Riley

Young Philiper Flash was a promising lad,

His intentions were good--but oh, how sad

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Lines On The Death Of Sir William Russel

© William Cowper

Doomed, as I am, in solitude to waste

The present moments, and regret the past,

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Abram Morrison

© John Greenleaf Whittier

'Midst the men and things which will
Haunt an old man's memory still,
Drollest, quaintest of them all,
With a boy's laugh I recall
Good old Abram Morrison.

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A Fable For Critics

© James Russell Lowell

  'Why, nothing of consequence, save this attack
On my friend there, behind, by some pitiful hack,
Who thinks every national author a poor one,
That isn't a copy of something that's foreign, 
And assaults the American Dick--'

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The Home-Going

© James Whitcomb Riley

We must get home--for we have been away
  So long it seems forever and a day!
  And O so very homesick we have grown,
  The laughter of the world is like a moan
  In our tired hearing, and its songs as vain,--
  We must get home--we must get home again!

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You Men

© Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

(Español)
 Hombres necios que acusáis
a la mujer sin razón,
sin ver que sois la ocasión
de lo mismo que culpáis:

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Hero And Leander. The Sixth Sestiad

© George Chapman

No longer could the Day nor Destinies

  Delay the Night, who now did frowning rise

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Sonnet XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes On His Aires

© John Milton

Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song
First taught our English Musick how to span
Words with just note and accent, not to scan
With Midas Ears, committing short and long;

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The Kalevala - Rune XIV

© Elias Lönnrot

DEATH OF LEMMINKAINEN.


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In Praise Of Johnny Applseed

© Vachel Lindsay

  But he left their wigwams and their love.
  By the hour of dawn he was proud and stark,
  Kissed the Indian babes with a sigh,
  Went forth to live on roots and bark,
  Sleep in the trees, while the years howled by--

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The Joke

© Charles Bukowski

then he leans back, thinks that I
have no sense of humor, have had a
bad day, or that he has overestimated my
intelligence.