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The Best Humorous Verse
An Anthology of some of the English-speaking World's Favourite Poetry
The best funny poems written in the English language.
Allan Ahlberg - Please Mrs Butler
Adrian Henri - "Without You"
Adrian Mitchell - "Fifteen Million Plastic Bags"
Anon - "Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer"
Charles Causley - "Ballad of the Breadman"
GK Chesterton - "The Rolling English Road"
Hal Summers - "My Old Cat"
Helen Dunmore - Next Door
Hugo Williams - "Toilet"
JBS Haldane - "Cancer's a Funny Thing"
Jenny Joseph - "Warning"
John Cooper Clarke - "(I Married A) Monster From Outer Space"
Louis MacNeice - "Bagpipe Music"
Monty Python - "Horace"
Ogden Nash - "Common Cold"
Ogden Nash - "Lines On Facing Forty"
Ogden Nash - "More About People"
Ogden Nash - "To My Valentine"
Philip Larkin - "Annus Mirabilis"
Philip Larkin - "This Be The Verse"
Roger McGough - "Comeclose and Sleepnow"
Roger McGough - "Let Me Die A Youngman's Death"
Roger McGough - "Vinegar"
Roger McGough - "At lunchtime"
Shel Silverstein - "Bear In There"
Vernon Scannell - "Spot-check at Fifty"
Wendy Cope - "A Christmas Poem"
Wendy Cope - "Loss"
Wendy Cope - "Bloody Men"
WS Merwin - Seperation