On Reading Them I Was Not Laughing

I know that they remain Worldwide renowned poets the likes of Tennyson, Browning, Wordsworth and Yeats
And Shelley, Eliot, Poe and Longfellow as well as many more poetic greats
Who at least shared one thing in common in humor they surely did lack
Their poetry quite bereft of laughter read often would turn one into a sad sack
Doubtless they were gifted people and they did possess the inner glow
But than them far more humorous poets i will name here a few of who i do know
Such as Chesterton, Belloc and Davies and James Stephens and Oscar Wilde
Their writings and poems not all serious and on reading them i have smiled
It is true we need poets who are serious but in life we need laughter as well
I have laughed at humorous limericks and i have laughed at humorous doggerel
Many of the all time great poets whose poems have outlived them for years
Their poems though great lacking in humor have often had me close to tears
Their poetry quite lacking in humor and in truth i only can say
Or reading them i was not laughing though with words they did have a way.