The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe

American poetry; American wit and humor; English poetry; English wit and humor; Humorous poetry, American; Humorous poetry, English

On the Death of Mr. Hone
  On George the Third's Patronage of Benjamin West
  Another on the Same
  Epitaph on Peter Staggs
  Tray's Epitaph
  On a Stone thrown at a very great Man, etc.
  A Consolatory StanzaEpigrams by                         Robert Burns.
  The Poet's Choice
  On a celebrated Ruling Elder
  On John Dove
  On Andrew Turner
  On a Scotch Coxcomb
  On Grizzel Grim
  On a Wag in Mauchline
  Epitaph on W---
  On a Suicide
Epigrams from the German of         Lessing.
  Niger
  A Nice Point
  True Nobility
  To a Liar Mendax
  The Bad Wife
  The Dead Miser
  The Bad Orator
  The Wise Child
  Specimen of the Laconic
  Cupid and Mercury
  Fritz
  On Dorilis
  To a Slow Walker, etc.
  On Two Beautiful One-eyed Sisters
  The Per Contra, or Matrimonial Balance
Epigrams of                         S. T. Coleridge.
  An Expectoration
  Expectoration the Second
  To a Lady
  Avaro
  Beelzebub and Job
  Sentimental
  An Eternal Poem
  Bad Poets
To Mr. Alexandre, the Ventriloquist     Scott
The Swallows                          R. B. Sheridan
French and English                    Erskine
Epigrams by                           Thomas Moore.
  To Sir Hudson Lowe
  Dialogue
  To Miss ---
  To ---
  On being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party, etc.
  What my Thought's like?
  From the French
  A Joke Versified
  The Surprise
  On ---
  On a Squinting Poetess
  On a Tuft-hunter
  The Kiss
  Epitaph on Southey
  Written in a Young Lady's Common-place Book
  The Rabbinical Origin of Women
  Anacreontique
On Butler's Monument                      Wesley
On the Disappointment of the Whig Associates
  of the Prince Regent, etc               Lamb
To Professor Airey                        Sydney Smith
On Lord Dudley and Ward                   Rogers
Epigrams of                               Lord Byron.
  To the Author of a Sonnet, etc.
  Windsor Poetics
  On a Carrier, etc.
Epigrams of                               R. H. Barham.
  On the Windows of King's College, etc.
  New-made Honor
  Eheu Fugaces
Anonymous Epigrams.
  On a Pale Lady, etc.
  Upon Pope's Translation of Homer
  Recipe for a Modern Bonnet
  My Wife and I
  On Two Gentlemen, etc.
  Wellington's Nose
  The Smoker
  An Essay on the Understanding
  To a Living Author
Epigrams by                               Thomas Hood.
  On the Art Unions
  The Superiority of Machinery
Epigrams by                               W. Savage Landor.
  On Observing a Vulgar Name on the Plinth of a Statue
  Lying in State
Epigrams from                             Punch.
  The Cause
  Irish Particular
  One Good Turn deserves Another
  Sticky
  The Poet Foiled
  Black and White
  Inquest--not Extraordinary
  Domestic Economy
  On Seeing an Execution
  A Voice, and Nothing Else
  The Amende Honorable
  The Czar
  Bas-Bleu
  To a Rich Young Widow
  The Railway of Life
  A Conjugal Conundrum
  Numbers Altered
  Grammar for the Court of Berlin
  The Empty Bottle
  Aytoun
  The Death of Doctor Morrison

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe

No reviews yet