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Books in the Poetry - Humorous genre:

Day and Night Songs; and The Music Master. A Love Poem (1860)

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This collection includes “The Faeries” which was illustrated to great effect by Richard Doyle. The cover image is from an 1884 reprint by G. Philip & Son. The text below is from the 1860 edition. Read for free online at Internet Archi... View More

Author(s): William Allingham
Illustrator(s): Arthur Hughes
John Everett Millais
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872)

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Alice returns to Wonderland by way of the looking glass over the mantle and meets many queer people, including the Walrus and the Carpenter. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): John Tenniel

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The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878)

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This comic masterpiece by Jane Austen’s favorite poet describes what started out as a quiet expedition to the country. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): William Cowper
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Mother Goose for Grown-Ups (1900)

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Guy Wetmore Carryl’s gift for comic verse shines in these reworkings of familiar Mother Goose rhymes. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell
Gustave Verbeek

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Grimm Tales Made Gay (1902)

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Guy Wetmore Carryl brings his gift for comic verse to fairy tales. Read online at archive. org.

Author(s): Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s): Albert Levering

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The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems (1903)

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Includes The Hunting of the Snark and poems from Rhyme? and Reason?, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and Sylvie and Bruno. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell
Robert Murray Wright

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A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

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‘In winter I get up at nightAnd dress by yellow candle-light.In summer, quite the other way,I have to go to bed by day.’ And sixty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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When We Were Very Young (1924)

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A book of poems in which we first meet Christopher Robin and Edward Bear. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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Playtime & Company: A Book for Children (1925)

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A book of verse for children.

Author(s): E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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Fun and Fantasy (1927)

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A collection of illustrations from Punch.Verses by E. V. Knox.

Author(s): E. V. Knox
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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Hither and Thither (1927)

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Only the line drawing on the cover is by Shepard.

Author(s): Barbara Euphan Todd
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard
Margaret W. Tarrant

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Let’s Pretend (1927)

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A book of poems for children.

Author(s): Georgette Agnew
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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Now We Are Six (1927)

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More poems featuring Christopher Robin.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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Menagerie (1928)

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Poems, mainly about animals.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Mary Britton Miller
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

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Christmas Poems (1931)

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A collection of poems centered on Christmas.

Author(s): John Drinkwater
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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Hilarie Belloc’s Cautionary Verses (1931)

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The complete collection of humorous verses by the English master.

Author(s): Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s): Nicolas Bentley
Basil T. Blackwood

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The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932)

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A selection of poems by a famous Black American poet.

Author(s): Langston Hughes
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

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Sycamore Square (1932)

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A book of verses which were originally published in Punch.

Author(s): Jan Struther
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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I Hear America Singing (1937)

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This is a collection of poems about cowboys, and trains, trappers and sawyers from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Northwoods to the Gulf. The dark blue library binding is the JLG edition. The grey binding is the trade binding.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1938
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Under the Tent of the Sky (1937)

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This is a collection of poems about animals, large and small.

Author(s): John E. Brewton
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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