text: ;Novels and poetry
  *Davy is the subject of a humorous song by Richard Gendall, recorded in 1980 by folk-singer Brenda Wootton in the album Boy Jan Cornishman, the seven verses of which each recall a day of the week on which Davy purportedly made a particular discovery.
  *English playwright Nick Darke wrote Laughing Gas (2005) a comedy script about the life of Sir Humphry Davy, unfinished at the time of Nick Darke's death; completed posthumously by actor and playwright Carl Grose and produced by the Truro-based production company O-region.
  *Edmund Clerihew Bentley's first clerihew, published in 1905, was written about Sir Humphry Davy:
  :Sir Humphry Davy
  :Abominated gravy.
  :He lived in the odium
  :Of having discovered sodium.
  * There is a humorous rhyme of unknown origin about the statue in Penzance: 
  :Sir Humphrey Davy's kindly face, 
  :Is turned away from Market Place
  :Towards St Michael's Mount
  :So, if he do want to tell the time
  :He've got to wait till the clock do chime 
  :Then he's forced to count.
  *Jules Verne refers to Davys geological theories in his 1864 novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth'
  * On the 2021 TV show Avenue 5, when asked who he is referring to, Captain Ryan, played by Hugh Laurie, responds, "Who do you think? Sir Humphrey Davy?"