The Book of Humorous Verse

Carolyn Wells was born on June 18, 1862, in Rahway, New Jersey. She was an American author and poet. She was especially noted for her humor and was a frequent contributor of nonsense verse and whimsical pieces for some small magazines.

In her writing career, she had written more than 170 books. At first, she focused on writing poetry, children’s books and humor, and after some time she started writing mystery novels.

She died on March 26, 1942 in New York City.

This is one of her best-known books.

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This book represents a compilation of funny and interesting poems from different authors. It is written with the intention to compile humorous poems that are favorable to many people. It provides such an enormous variety in the poems, that it is almost impossible that there as a person who will find a poem he or she doesn’t like.

The contents of this book are divided into sixteen categories:

1. Banter
2. The eternal feminine
3. Love and courtship
4. Satire
5. Cynicism
6. Epigrams
7. Burlesque
8. Bathos
9. Parody
10. Narrative
11. Tribute
12. Whimsey
13. Nonsense
14. Natural history
15. Juniors
16. Immortal stanzas

The intention of this book is remind us that although life can be hard and filled with bad moments, we must never forget to smile. Because, what kind of life is the life without a laugh?