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English Humorous poetry

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The humorous poetry of the English language, from Chaucer to Saxe

James Parton

1856

The Oxford book of light verse

W. H. Auden

1938

You wait till I'm older than you!

Michael Rosen

1997

The bad child's book of beasts

B T. B. 1870-1917, Hilaire Belloc

1875

Gnash, gnaw, dinosaur!

Lynne Chapman, Tony Mitton

2009

Making friends with Frankenstein

Colin McNaughton

1993

Walking the bridge of your nose

Michael Rosen

1997

Cavaliers, clubs, and literary culture

Timothy Raylor

1994

Scottish comic verse

Maurice Lindsay

1981

The Bab ballads

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

1869

Humorous poems

William Michael Rossetti

1872

The best of Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

1995

Random House Treasury of Light Verse, The

Louis Phillips

1995

Cautionary verses: collected humorous poems

Hilaire Belloc

1959

The Hippo book of silly poems

John Foster

1998

Vile Verses

Roald Dahl

2005

The Big little golden book of funny poems

Thea Feldman, Bruce Lemerise

1987

Unspun socks froma chicken's laundry

Spike Milligan

1981

Beastly boys and ghastly girls

Cole, William

1964

Humor in Irish literature

Don L. F. Nilsen

1996

Whims and oddities

Thomas Hood

1826

The tyger voyage

Richard Adams

1976

There's an awful lot of weirdos in our neighbourhood

Colin McNaughton

1989

A Moral Alphabet

Hilaire Belloc

1899

Dirty Beasts

Roald Dahl

1986 ★ 4.0

Nonsense songs and laughable lyrics

Edward Lear

1899

Comic poems

Peter Washington

2001

The lure of the limerick

William S. Baring-Gould

1971

Scary Poems to Make You Shiver

Susie Gibbs

2006

In Search of the World's Worst Writers

Nick Page

2001