Here are several I came across recently when revisiting an anthology edited by Wendy Cope. The first may have been in the back of my mind when Tim Murphy and I started the recent versified jokes fad here at the 'sphere, a craze that culminated in a special issue of "Light."
RPW
A Joke Versified, by Thomas Moore
"Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life,
There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake --
It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife."
"Why so it is father -- whose wife shall I take?"
Family Court, by Ogden Nash
One would be in less danger
From the wiles of the stranger
If one's own kin and kith
Were more fun to be with.
The Englishwoman, by Stevie Smith
The Englishwoman is so refined
She has no bosom and no behind.
Mrs. Hobson's Choice, by Alma Denny
What shall a woman
Do with her ego
Faced with the choice
That it go or he go?
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