Portal:Humour

Humour

Satirical reference works

• The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce
• The Jazz Webster, 1916 by Henry Louis Mencken

Humorous poetry

• The Rape of the Lock, 1714 by Alexander Pope
• The Diverting History of John Gilpin, 1782 by William Cowper
• The Devil's Walk, 1798 by Robert Southey
• The child is father to the man, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• The Latest Decalogue, by Arthur Hugh Clough
• A Book of Nonsense, 1846 by Edward Lear
• The Quangle-Wangle's Hat, by Edward Lear
• Cobbler and Stork, by Eugene Field
• The Gipsy Praises his Horse, by Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj
• Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1871 by Edward Lear
• More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc., 1872 by Edward Lear
• The New Vestments, 1876 by Edward Lear
• The Hunting of the Snark, 1876 by Lewis Carroll
• The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò, 1877 by Edward Lear
• Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, 1883 by Lewis Carroll (collection)
• Two Mock Epics, 1894 by Svatopluk Čech and Walter William Strickland
• Ben King's Verse, 1894 by Benjamin Franklin King
• The Maiden of Kercheezer, 1924 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Kissing of Sal Snooboo, 1925 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Conversion of St. Vladimir by Karel Havlíček Borovský, translated by Ernst Altschul (1930)
• Tyrolean Elegies by Karel Havlíček Borovský, translated by Roderick Aldrich Ginsburg (c1932)
• A Song of Cheer, 2007 by Robert Ervin Howard

Humorous prose

• Miss Albina McLush, by Nathaniel Parker Willis
• Bon-Bon, 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Duc de L'Omelette, 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe
• Loss of Breath, 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Predicament, 1838 by Edgar Allan Poe
• Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling, 1840 by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Business Man, 1840 by Edgar Allan Poe
• Never Bet the Devil Your Head, 1841 by Edgar Allan Poe
• Three Sundays in a Week, 1841 by Edgar Allan Poe
• Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences, 1843 by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Angel of the Odd, 1844 by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Spectacles, 1844 by Edgar Allan Poe
• The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, 1844 by Edgar Allan Poe
• Vanity Fair, 1847 by William Makepeace Thackeray
• X-ing a Paragrab, 1849 by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Canterville Ghost, 1887 by Oscar Wilde
• Tag or The Chien Boule Dog, 1909 by Valance J Patriarche
• The Secretary of the American Radio Relay League Offers a Reward!, December 1915 by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska (editors)
• In An American Radio Relay League Station, January 1916
• Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers, 1916 by Don Marquis
• The Reward is Given!, February 1916 by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska (editors)
• Queen Lucia, 1920 by E. F. Benson
• Miss Mapp, 1922 by E. F. Benson
• West Is West, 1922 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Aha! or The Mystery of the Queen's Necklace, 1923 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Sheik, 1923 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Unhand Me, Villain, 1923 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Halt! Who Goes There?, 1924 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Ideal Girl, 1925 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Weekly Short Story, 1926 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Reformation: A Dream, 1927 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Thessalians, 1927 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Ye College Days, 1927 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Musings of a Moron, by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Road to Bear Creek, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Scalp Hunter, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
• A Gent from Bear Creek, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Guns of the Mountains, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Mountain Man, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Apache Mountain War, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Cupid From Bear Creek, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Feud Buster, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Haunted Mountain, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Riot at Cougar Paw, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
• War on Bear Creek, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
• The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Evil Deeds at Red Cougar, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
• High Horse Rampage, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
• No Cowherders Wanted, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Pilgrims to the Pecos, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Pistol Politics, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Sharp's Gun Serenade, 1937 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Texas John Alden, 1944 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Maple and Tea, 2007 by Dmitrii Kouznetsov