Potential Titles: Joke

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Old jokes from a wild youth - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

That cries to the old joke moon - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

The laughter of a cosmic joke - Mary Jo Bang "Here We All Are With Daphne"

Leans into the eye of a joke - Lou Barrett "Red Lunch Basket"

Would joke with hyaenas - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Spicing logic with a joke - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"

Will know that jokes are often paid in kind - John Gay "Fable XLVI: Cur, Horse, and Shepherd's Dog" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

A joke of doubtful taste - W.S. Gilbert "General John"

Freely pass the kindly joke - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

My life and I made jokes together - Jane Hirshfield "My Life Was the Size of My Life"

The oracular feint of a joke - Dana Levin "You Will Never Get Death/Out of Your System"

Jokes that jingle and jar - "A Poet's Valentine" (parody of Swinburne's "The Creation of Man")

If my conscience seem an idle joke - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Though not quite so cheap as my jokes - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"


Most purely practical of jokers - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"

Held the joker and both bowers - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"


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