[marly youmans]

I'm pretty sure that poet William Harmon included "What a Friend We Have in Cheeses" (ouch!) in his "Oxford Book of American Light Verse." I have a copy, who knows where...

Cheese tends toward light verse.

[marly youmans]

Oh. Dear. Here's a whole batch of them, also tending toward the light: http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?4,229678

[Max Goodman]

More Chesterton, from an essay adjacent in my Selected to the one on cheese:

"Variability is among the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem."