Junqueiro wrote highly satiric poems criticizing conservatism, romanticism, and the Church leading up to the Portuguese Revolution of 1910.

He also worked on writing Sher, a short witty 3/4 lined satiric poem, mainly found in the Indian Subcontinent.

In a satiric poem "An Ode to the Revolution" which he published in 1980 he wrote:

He was widely known for his witty and satiric poems.

Between 1822 and 1823 he finished a set of fifty-two prints for the a satiric poem called Il Meo Patacca.

Keeley's famous prayer, incidentally, was a paraphrase of a satiric poem I had composed and delivered on short wave before.

To punish his critics, he wrote a satiric poem "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."

He often exchanged parodies and satiric poems with another Boston wit, Mather Byles.

He is an author of hundreds of patriotic, historical, lyrical and satiric poems, also humoristic stories and autobiographic novel.

In 1845 he moved to Barcelona where he earned his medical degree, wrote for various newspapers, and published a satiric political poem titled Zoopoligrafía.