Humorous poetry, English
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The Book of Humorous Verse, ed. by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg text)- Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen, by G. K. Chesterton (illustrated HTML at Notre Dame)
- Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen (London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1900), by G. K. Chesterton
- Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the Many (New York: R. H. Russell, 1903), by Harry Graham (Gutenberg text)
- Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (New York: R. H. Russell, 1902), by Harry Graham
- Absurd Ditties (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1903), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by John Hassall
- A Moral Alphabet (London: E. Arnold, 1899), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
- Wit and Humour, Selected From The English Poets; With an Illustrative Essay, and Critical Comments (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846), ed. by Leigh Hunt
- The Works of Thomas Hood, Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse (7 volumes; London: E. Moxon and Co., 1862-1863), by Thomas Hood, ed. by Tom Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe, ed. by James Parton (Gutenberg text)
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881), ed. by James Parton
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), ed. by James Parton
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: English poetry- The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1920; With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-Known Poems in Other Languages (sixth edition, 2 volumes; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1937), ed. by Burton Egbert Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Anthology of New English Verse (Osaka: Suzuya, 1921), ed. by Makoto Sangū
- Euphrosyne: A Collection of Verse (Cambridge, UK: E. Johnson; London: A. and F. Denny, 1905), contrib. by Clive Bell, W. R. M. Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, and Leonard Woolf
- Eyes of Youth: A Book of Verse (second edition; London: Herbert and Daniel, 1911), contrib. by G. K. Chesterton, Francis Thompson, Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, Viola Meynell, Ruth Temple Lindsay, Hugh Austin, Lady Wentworth, Olivia Meynell, Maurice Healy, Monica Saleeby, and Francis Meynell (Gutenberg text)
- Eyes of Youth: A Book of Verse (second edition; London: Herbert and Daniel, 1911), contrib. by G. K. Chesterton, Francis Thompson, Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, Viola Meynell, Ruth Temple Lindsay, Hugh Austin, Lady Wentworth, Olivia Meynell, Maurice Healy, Monica Saleeby, and Francis Meynell
- The Family Library of Poetry and Song, by William Cullen Bryant (page images at MOA)
- The Flower of the Mind (London: Grant Richards, 1898), by Alice Meynell (Gutenberg text)
- The Girl's Book of Verse: A Treasury of Old and New Poems (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1922), ed. by Mary Gould Davis, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Gleanings From the Poets, For Home and School (New York: W. I. Pooley, c1850), ed. by Anna C. Lowell (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Gleanings From the Poets, For Home and School (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1855), ed. by Anna C. Lowell (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Gleanings From the Poets, for Home and School (new edition, enlarged; Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862), ed. by Anna C. Lowell
- The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (1875), ed. by Francis Turner Palgrave (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe, ed. by James Parton (Gutenberg text)
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881), ed. by James Parton
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), ed. by James Parton
- The Hundred Best English Poems (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1904), ed. by Adam L. Gowans (Gutenberg text)
- Illustrated Library of Favorite Song, ed. by J. G. Holland (page images at MOA)
- Imagination and Fancy: or, Selections From the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art, With Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What is Poetry?" (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1848), ed. by Leigh Hunt
- Imagination and Fancy: or, Selections From the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art, With Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What is Poetry?" (new edition; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Leigh Hunt
- It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration, ed. by Joseph M. Bachelor and St. Clair Adams (Gutenberg text)
- Lillygay: An Anthology of Anonymous Poems (Steyning, UK: The Vine Press, 1920), ed. by Victor B. Neuburg, illust. by Eric West and Percy West
- New Songs: A Lyric Selection made by A.E. (third edition; Dublin: O'Donoghue and Co.; London: A. H. Bullen, 1904), by George William Russell, contrib. by Padraic Colum, Eva Gore-Booth, Thomas Keohler, Alice Milligan, Susan L. Mitchell, Seumas O'Sullivan, George Roberts, and Ella Young (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Night Songs and Sketches (London: Griffith, Farran, and Co., n.d.), ed. by E. Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack, contrib. by Rosamund Marriott Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Noon Songs and Sketches (London: Griffith, Farran and Co., ca. 1887), ed. by E. Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1918), ed. by Arthur Quiller-Couch
- The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (1919 edition; see also The Project Gutenberg Book of English Verse), ed. by Arthur Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)
- Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul (revised and enlarged edition; New York: Eaton and Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, c1909), ed. by James Mudge
- Poems With Power to Strengthen the Soul (revised and enlarged edition; New York et al.: Abingdon Press, c1909), ed. by James Mudge (Gutenberg text)
- A Poetry-Book of Elder Poets (first series; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1878), ed. by Amelia B. Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Poets of Our Day (London: Methuen and Co., 1908), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith, contrib. by Alfred Austin, George William Russell, J. J. Bell, Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, Arthur Christopher Benson, Laurence Binyon, Francis William Bourdillon, Robert Bridges, Bliss Carman, Madison Julius Cawein, G. K. Chesterton, Ethel Clifford, Francis Burdett Money-Coutts, John Davidson, Austin Dobson, May Doney, Norman Gale, Gerald Gould, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Richard Le Gallienne, Winifred Lucas, Walter De la Mare, John Masefield, Alice Meynell, T. Sturge Moore, E. Nesbit, John Henry Newbolt, Alfred Noyes, Moira O'Neill, John Swinnerton Phillimore, Stephen Phillips, Eden Phillpotts, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Charles G. D. Roberts, A. Mary F. Robinson, George Santayana, Duncan Campbell Scott, Arthur Symons, John B. Tabb, Rachel Annand Taylor, Francis Thompson, Herbert Trench, E. S. Tylee, William Watson, Margaret L. Woods, Rosamund Marriott Watson, and W. B. Yeats
- The Project Gutenberg Book of English Verse (see also The Oxford Book of English Verse), ed. by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
- Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry: A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries, ed. by Edmund Goldsmid (Gutenberg text)
- Representative Poetry (electronic edition), ed. by University of Toronto English Department (HTML at Toronto)
- Songs of Three Centuries, by John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at MOA)
- Specimens With Memoirs of the Less-Known British Poets (3 volumes, 1860), ed. by George Gilfillan (Gutenberg text)
- Sweet Nature and Other Poems, With Illustrations (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), ed. by Robert Ellice Mack (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Treasures of Art and Song (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), ed. by Robert Ellice Mack (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion (multiple copies), by William Blake (illuminated HTML at blakearchive.org)
- The Works of Mr. John Gay (4 volumes; Dublin: J. Potts, 1770), by John Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Amoretti and Epithalamion, by Edmund Spenser (HTML at Virginia)
- Holiday Selections for Readings and Recitations, Specially Adapted to Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day, Washington's Birthday, Easter, Arbor Day, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., c1920), ed. by Sara Sigourney Rice
- The Magic Casement: An Anthology of Fairy Poetry (London: Chapman and Hall, 1909), ed. by Alfred Noyes, illust. by Stephen Reid (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Poems, Arranged by Grades and Recommended for Reading and Memorizing (second edition; 1915), ed. by Michigan State Board of Library Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children, ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Second Problems Book: Prizes and Proximes from the Westminster Gazette, 1908-1909 (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1909), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith, contrib. by Lytton Strachey, illust. by F. Carruthers Gould
- Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, by Mary Wortley Montagu, ed. by Risa Bear
- The Westminster Problems Book: Prose and Verse (London: Methuen and Co., c1908), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith
- The Winged Anthology: A Collection of Representative Poems Relating to Birds, Butterflies, and Moths, From 1536 to 1914 (London: J. Richmond, 1914), ed. by Irene Osgood and Horace Wyndham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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