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Rev. and amplified edition |
| Phys Descr |
3 leaves, v-xxv, 1 leaf, 25-1011 pages ; 22 cm |
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I. Banter -- The played-out humorist ; The practical joker ; To Phoebe / W.S. Gilbert -- Malbrouck / Father Prout -- Mark Twain: a pipe dream / Oliver Herford -- From a full heart / A.A. Milne -- The ultimate joy / Unknown -- Old fashioned fun ; When moonlike ore the hazure seas / W.M. Thackeray -- When the frost is on the punkin / James Whitcomb Riley -- Two men / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- A familiar letter to several correspondents ; The height of the ridiculous / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe / H.C. Bunner -- A rondelay / Peter A. Motteux -- Winter dusk / R.K. Munkittrick -- Comic miseries ; Early rising / John G. Saxe -- To the Pliocene Skull / Bret Harte -- Ode to work in springtime / Thomas R. Ybarra -- Old stuff / Bert Leston Taylor -- To Minerva / Thomas Hood -- The legend of Heinz Von Stein / Charles Godfrey Leland -- The truth about Horace / Eugene Field -- Propinquity needed / Charles Battell Loomis -- In the catacombs / Harlan Hoge Ballard -- Our native birds / Nathan Haskell Dole -- The prayer of Cyrus Brown / Sam Walter Foss -- Erring in company / Franklin P. Adams -- Cupid / William Blake -- If we didn't have to eat / Nixon Waterman -- To my empty purse / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The birth of Saint Patrick / Samuel Lover -- Her little feet / William Ernest Henley -- School ; The millennium / James Kenneth Stephen -- Exactly so / Lady T. Hastings -- Companions ; The schoolmaster / Charles Stuart Calverley -- A appeal for are to the sextant of the old brick meetinouse / Arabella Willson -- Cupid's darts / Unknown -- A plea for trigamy / Owen Seaman -- The Pope / Charles Lever -- All at sea / Frederick Moxon -- Ballad of the primitive jest / Andrew Lang -- Villanelle of things amusing / Gelett Burgess -- How to eat watermelons / Frank Libby Stanton -- A vague story ; His mother-in-law / Walter Parke -- On a deaf housekeeper ; Homeopathic soup / Unknown -- Some little bug / Roy Atwell -- On the downtown side of an uptown street / William Johnston -- Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos / Lord Byron -- The fisherman's chant / F.C. Burnand -- Report of an adjudged case / William Cowper -- Prehistoric Smith / David Law Proudfit -- Song / George Canning -- Lying / Thomas Moore -- Strictly germ-proof / Arthur Guiterman -- The lay of the lover's friend / William E. Aytoun -- Man's place in nature / Unknown -- The new version / W.J. Lampton -- Amazing facts about food ; Transcendentalism / Unknown -- A caudal lecture / William Sawyer -- Salad / Sydney Smith -- Nemesis / J.W. Foley -- Mona Lisa / John Kendrick Bangs -- The siege of Djklxprwbz / Eugene Fitch Ware -- Rural bliss / Anthony C. Deane -- An old bachelor / Tudor Jenks -- Song / J.R. Planché -- The quest of the purple cow / Hilda Johnson -- St. Patrick of Ireland, my dear / William Maginn -- The Irish schoolmaster / James A Sidey -- Reflections on Cleopathera's needle / Cormac O'Leary -- The origin of Ireland ; As to the weather / Unknown -- The twins / Henry S. Leigh |
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II. The eternal feminine -- He and she / Eugene Fitch Ware -- The kiss / Tom Masson -- The courtin' / James Russell Lowell -- Hiram Hover / Bayard Taylor -- Blow me eyes! / Wallace Irwin -- First love / Charles Stuart Calverley -- What is a woman like? / Unknown -- Mis' Smith / Albert Bigelow Paine -- Triolet / Paul T. Gilbert -- Bessie Brown, M.D. / Samuel Minturn Peck -- A sketch from the life / Arthur Guiterman -- Minguillo's kiss / Unknown -- A kiss in the rain / Samuel Minturn Peck -- The love-knot / Nora Perry -- Over the way / Mary Mapes Dodge -- Chorus of women / Aristophanes -- The widow Malone / Charles Lever -- The smack in school / William Pitt Palmer -- Späcially Jim / Bessie Morgan -- Kitty of Coleraine / Edward Lysaght -- Why don't the men propose? / Thomas Haynes Bayly -- A pin / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- The whistler / Unknown -- The cloud / Oliver Herford -- Constancy / John Boyle O'Reilly -- Ain't it awful, Mabel? / John Edward Hazzard -- Wing tee wee / J.P. Denison -- Phyllis Lee / Oliver Herford -- The sorrows of Werther / W.M. Thackeray -- The unattainable / Harry Romaine -- Rory O'More; or, Good omens / Samuel Lover -- A dialogue from Plato ; Dora versus Rose ; Tu quoque / Austin Dobson -- Nothing to wear / William Allen Butler -- My mistress's boots ; Mrs. Smith ; A terrible infant ; Susan / Frederick Locker-Lampson -- I didn't like him ; My Angeline / Harry B. Smith -- Nora's vow / Sir Walter Scott -- Husband and heathen / Sam Walter Foss -- The lost Pleiad / Arthur Reed Ropes -- The new church organ / Will Carleton -- Larrie O'Dee / William W. Fink -- No fault in women / Robert Herrick -- A cosmopolitan woman / Unknown -- Courting in Kentucky / Florence E. Pratt -- Any one will do / Unknown -- A bird in the hand / Frederic E. Weatherly -- The belle of the ball / Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- The retort / George Pope Morris -- Behave yoursel' before folk / Alexander Rodger -- The chronicle: a ballad / Abraham Cowley -- Buxom Joan / William Congreve -- Oh, my Geraldine / F.C. Burnand -- The parterre / E.H. Palmer -- How to ask and have / Samuel Lover -- Sally in our alley / Henry Carey -- False love and true logic / Laman Blanchard -- Pet's punishment / J. Ashby-Sterry -- Ad Chloen, M.A. ; Chloe, M.A. / Mortimer Collins -- The fair millinger / Fred W. Loring -- Two fishers / Unknown -- Maud / Henry S. Leigh -- Are women fair? / Francis Davison -- The plaidie / Charles Sibley -- Feminine arithmetic / Charles Graham Halpine -- Lord Guy / George F. Warren -- Sary 'fixes up' things / Albert Bigelow Paine -- The constant cannibal maiden / Wallace Irwin -- Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles / Frances M. Whitcher -- Under the mistletoe / George Francis Schults -- The broken pitcher / William E. Aytoun -- Gifts returned / Walter Savage Landor |
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III. Love and courtship -- Noureddin, the son of the Shah / Clinton Scollard -- The usual way / Frederic E. Weatherly -- The way to Arcady / H.C. Bunner -- My love and my heart / Henry S. Leigh -- Quite by chance / Frederick Longbridge -- The nun / Leigh Hunt -- The chemist to his love ; Categorical courtship / Unknown -- Lanty Leary / Samuel Lover -- The secret combination / Ellis Parker Butler -- Forty years after / H.H. Porter -- Cupid / Ben Jonson -- Paring-time anticipated / William Cowper -- Why / H.P. Stevens -- The Sabine farmer's serenade / Father Prout -- I hae laid a herring in saut / James Tytler -- The clown's courtship / Unknown -- Out upon it / Sir John Suckling -- Love is like a dizziness / James Hogg -- The kitchen clock / John Vance Cheney -- Lady mine / H.E. Clarke -- Ballade of the golfer in love / Clinton Scollard -- Ballade of forgotten loves / Arthur Grissom |
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IV. Satire -- A ballade of suicide / G.K. Chesterton -- Finnigan to Flannigan / S.W. Gillinan -- Study of an elevation in Indian ink / Rudyard Kipling -- The v-a-s-e / James Jeffrey Roche -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The recruit ; Officer Brady / Robert W. Chambers -- Post-Impressionism / Bert Leston Taylor -- To the portrait of A Gentleman ; Cacoethes scribendi ; Contentment / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- A Boston lullaby / James Jeffrey Roche -- A grain of salt / Wallace Irwin -- Song / Richard Lovelace -- A philosopher ; The meeting of the Clabberhuses ; The ideal husband to his wife / Walter Foss -- Distichs / John Hay -- The hen-roost man / Ruth McEnery Stuart -- If they meant all they say / Alice Duer Miller -- The man / Stephen Crane -- A thought / James Kenneth Stephen -- The musical ass / Tomaso de Yriarte -- The knife-grinder / George Canning -- Sir Anthony's sermon to the fishes / Abraham á Santa Sancta-Clara -- The Battle of Blenheim / Robert Southey -- The three black crows / John Byron -- To the terrestrial globe ; Etiquette / W.S. Gilbert -- A modest wit / Selleck Osborn -- The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough -- A simile / Matthew Prior -- By parcels post / George R. Sims -- All's well that ends well / Unknown -- The contrast / Captain C. Morris -- The Devonshire Lane / John Marriott -- A splendid fellow ; If / H.C. Dodge -- Accepted and will appear / Parmenas Mix -- The little vagabond / William Blake -- Sympathy / Reginald Heber -- The religion of Hudibras / Samuel Butler -- Holy Willie's prayer / Robert Burns -- The learned Negro / Unknown -- True to Poll / F.C. Burnand -- Trust in women / Unknown -- The literary lady / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Twelve articles / Dean Swift -- All-saints / Edmund Yates -- How to make a man of consequence / Mark Lemon -- On a magazine sonnet / Russell Hilliard Loines -- Paradise / George Birdseye -- The friar of orders gray / John O'Keefe -- Of a certain man / Sir John Harrington -- Clean Clara / W.B. Rands -- Christmas chimes / Unknown -- The ruling passion / Alexander Pope -- The Pope and the net / Robert Browning -- The actor / John Wolcot -- The lost spectacles / Unknown -- That Texan cattle man / Joaquin Miller -- Fable / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Hoch! Der Kaiser / Rodney Blake -- What Mr. Robinson thinks ; The candidate's creed / James Russell Lowell -- The razor seller / John Wolcot -- The Devil's walk on earth / Robert Southey -- Father Molloy / Samuel Lover -- The owl-critic / James Thomas Fields -- What will we do? / Robert J. Burdette -- Life in Laconics / Mary Mapes Dodge -- On knowing when to stop / L.J. Bridgman -- Rev. Gabe Tucker's remarks / Unknown -- Thursday / Frederic E. Weatherly -- Sky-making ; The positivists ; Martial in London / Mortimer Collins -- The splendid shilling / John Philips -- After Horace / A.D. Godley -- Of a precise tailor / Sir John Harrington -- Money / Jehan du Pontalais -- Boston nursery rhymes / Rev. Joseph Cook -- Kentucky philosophy / Harrison Robertson -- John Grumlie / Allan Cunningham -- A song of impossibilities / Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Song / John Donne -- The oubit / Charles Kingsley -- Double ballade of primitive man / Andrew Lang -- Phillis's age / Matthew Prior |
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V. Cynicism -- Good and bad luck / John Hay -- Bangkolidye / Barry Pain -- Pensées de Noel / A.D. Godley -- A ballade of an Anti-Puritan / G.K. Chesterton -- Pessimism / Newton Mackintosh -- Cynical ode to an ultra-cynical public / Charles Mackay -- Youth and art / Robert Browning -- The bachelor's dream / Thomas Hood -- All things except myself I know / Francois Villon -- The joys of marriage / Charles Cotton -- The third proposition / Madeline Bridges -- The ballad of Cassandra Brown / Helen Gray Cone -- What's in a name? / R.K. Munkittrick -- Too late / Fitz Hugh Ludlow -- The annuity / George Outram -- K.K.--can't calculate / Frances M. Whitcher -- Northern farmer / Lord Tennyson -- Fin de siecle / Unknown -- Then ag'in / Sam Walter Foss -- The pessimist / Ben King -- Without and within / James Russell Lowell -- Same old story / Harry B. Smith |
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VI. Epigrams -- Woman's will / John G. Saxe -- Cynicus to W. Shakespeare ; Senex to Matt. Prior / James Kenneth Stephen -- To a blockhead ; The fool and the poet / Alexander Pope -- A rhymester ; Giles's hope ; Cologne ; An eternal poem ; On a bad singer ; Job / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Reasons for drinking / Dr. Henry Aldrich -- Smatterers ; Hypocrisy / Samuel Butler -- To Doctor Empiric / Ben Jonson -- A remedy worse than the disease / Matthew Prior -- A wife / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The honey-moon / Walter Savage Landor -- Dido / Richard Porson -- An epitaph / George John Cayley -- On taking a wife ; Upon being obliged to leave a pleasant party / Thomas Moore ; Some ladies ; On a sense of humor / Frederick Locker-Lampson -- On hearing a lady praise a certain Rev. Doctor's eyes / George Outram -- Epitaph intended for his wife / John Dryden -- To a capricious friend / Joseph Addison -- Which is which / John Byrom -- On a full-length portrait of Beau Marsh / Lord Chesterfield -- On Scotland / Cleveland -- Mendax ; To a slow walker and quick eater / Lessing -- What's my thought like? ; Of all the men / Thomas Moore -- On Butler's monument / Rev. Samuel Wesley -- A conjugal conundrum / Unknown |
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VII. Burlesque -- Lovers and a reflection / Charles Stuart Calverley -- Our hymn / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Soldier, rest! / Robert J. Burdette -- Imitation / Anthony C. Deane -- The might must / W.S. Gilbert -- Midsummer madness / Unknown -- Mavrone / Arthur Guiterman -- Lilies ; For I am sad / Don Marquis -- A little swirl of vers libre / Thomas R. Ybarra -- Young Lochinvar ; Imagiste love lines / Unknown -- Bygones / Bert Leston Taylor -- Justice to Scotland / Unknown -- Lament of the Scotch-Irish exile / James Jeffrey Roche -- A song of sorrow / Charles Battell Loomis -- The rejected National Hymns ; The editor's wooing / Robert H. Newell -- The baby's debut / James Smith -- The cantelope / Bayard Taylor -- Never forget your parents / Franklin P. Adams -- A girl was too reckless of grammar / Guy Wetmore Carryl -- Behold the deeds! / H.C. Bunner -- Villon's straight tip to all cross coves ; Culture in the slums / William Ernest Henley -- The lawyer's invocation to spring / Henry Howard Brownell -- North, east, south, and west / Unknown -- Martin Luther at Potsdam / Barry Pain -- An idyll of Phatte and Leene / Unknown -- The house that Jack built / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Palabras grandiosas / Bayard Taylor -- A love playnt / Godfrey Turner -- Darwinity / Herman C. Merivale -- Select passages from a coming poet / F. Anstey -- The romaunt of Humpty Dumpty / Henry S. Leigh -- The wedding ; In memoriam technician / Thomas Hood, Jr. -- Songs without words / Robert J. Burdette -- At the sign of the cock / Owen Seaman -- Presto furioso ; To Julia in shooting togs / Owen Seaman -- Farewell / Bert Leston Taylor -- Here is the tale / Anthony C. Deane -- The willows / Bret Harte -- A ballad / Guy Wetmore Carryl -- The translated way / Franklin P. Adams -- Commonplaces / Rudyard Kipling -- Angelo orders his dinner ; The promissory note ; Camerados / Bayard Taylor -- The last ride together / James Kenneth Stephen -- Imitation of Walt Whitman / Unknown -- Salad ; If / Mortimer Collins -- The jabberwocky of authors / Harry Persons Taber -- The town of Nice / Herman C. Merivale -- The willow-tree / W.M. Thackeray -- A ballade of ballade-mongers / Augustus M. Moore |
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VIII. Bathos -- The confession / Richard Harris Barham -- If you have seen / Thomas Moore -- Circumstance / Frederick Locker-Lampson -- Elegy / Arthur Guiterman -- Our traveller / Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell -- Optimism / Newton Mackintosh -- The declaration / N.P. Willis -- He came to pay / Parmenas Mix -- The forlorn one / Richard Harris Barham -- Rural raptures ; A fragment / Unknown -- The bitter bit ; Comfort in affliction ; The husband's petition / William E. Aytoun -- Lines written after a battle ; Lines ; The imaginative crisis / Unknown |
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IX. Parody -- The higher pantheism in a nut-shell ; Nephelidia ; Up the spout / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- In memoriam / Cuthbert Bede -- Lucy Lake / Newton Mackintosh -- The cock and the bull ; Ballad ; Disaster / Charles Stuart Calverley -- Wordsworthian reminiscence / Unknown -- Inspect us / Edith Daniell -- The messed damozel / Charles Hanson Towne -- A Melton Mowbray pork-pie / Richard le Gallienne -- Israfiddlestrings / Unknown -- After Dilettante Concetti / H.D. Traill -- Whenceness of the which ; The little star ; The original lamb ; Sainte Margérie / Unknown -- Robert Frost ; Owen Seaman / Lewis Untermeyer -- The modern Hiawatha / Unknown -- Somwhere-in-Europe-wocky / F.G. Hartswick -- Rigid body sings / J.C. Maxwell -- A ballad of high endeavor / Unknown -- Father William / Lewis Carroll -- The poets at tea / Barry Pain -- How often ; If I should die to-night / Ben King -- The day is done ; Jacob ; Ballad of the canal ; There's a bower of beanvines ; Reuben ; The wife ; When lovely woman ; John Thomson's daughter / Phoebe Cary -- A portrait / John Keats -- Annabel Lee / Stanley Huntley -- Home sweet home with variations / H.C. Bunner -- An old song by new singers / A.C. Wilkie -- More impressions / Oscuro Wildgoose -- Nursery rhymes á la mode ; A maudle-in ballad ; Gillian / Unknown -- Extracts from the Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne / Gelett Burgess -- Diversions of the Re-Echo Club ; Styx River anthology / Carolyn Wells -- Answer to Master Witner's song Shall I, Wasting in Despair? / Ben Jonson -- Song of the springtide ; The village choir ; My foe ; Nursery song in Pidgin English ; Father William / Unknown -- A poe'em of passion / C.F. Lummis -- How the daughters come down at Dunoon / H. Cholmondeley-Pennell -- To an importunate host / Unknown -- Cremation / William Sawyer -- An imitation of Wordsworth / Catharine M. Fanshawe -- The lay of the love-lorn / Aytoun and Martin -- Only seven ; 'Twas ever thus / Henry S. Leigh -- Foam and fangs / Walter Parke |
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X. Narrative -- Little Billee ; The Crystal Palace ; The wofle new ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown / W.M. Thackeray -- King John and the Abbot / Unknown -- On the death of a favorite cat / Thomas Gray -- Misadventures at Margate / Richard Harris Barham -- The gouty merchant and the stranger / Horace Smith -- The diverting history of John Gilpin / William Cowper -- Puddy O'Rafther / Samuel Lover -- Here she goes and there she goes / James Nack -- The Quaker's meeting / Samuel Lover -- The jester condemned to death / Horace Smith -- The deacon's masterpiece ; The ballad of the oysterman / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The well of St. Keyne / Robert Southey -- The Jackdaw of Rheims ; The knight and the lady / Richard Harris Barham -- An Eastern question / H.M. Paull -- My aunt's spectre / Mortimer Collins -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning -- The goose / Lord Tennyson -- The ballad of charity / Charles Godfrey Leland -- The post captain ; Robinson Crusoe's story / Charles E. Carryl -- Ben Bluff / Thomas Hood -- The Pilgrims and the peas / John Wolcot -- Tam O'Shanter / Robert Burns -- That gentleman from Boston Town / Joaquin Miller -- The yarn of the Nancy Bell ; Ferdinando and Elvira ; Gentle Alice Brown ; The story of Prince Agib ; Sir Guy the Crusader / W.S. Gilbert -- Kitty wants to write ; Dighton is engaged / Gelett Burgess -- Plain language from Truthful James ; The society upon the Stanisalaus ; Jim / Bret Harte -- William Brown of Oregon / Joaquin Miller -- Little breeches ; The enchanted shirt ; Jim Bludson / John Hay -- Wreck of the Julie Plante / William Henry Drummond -- The alarmed skipper / James T. Fields -- The elderly gentleman / George Canning -- Saying not meaning / William Basil Wake -- Hans Breitmann's party ; Ballad by Hans Breitmann / Charles Godfrey Leland -- Grampy sings a song / Holman F. Day -- The first banjo / Irwin Russell -- The romance of the carpet / Robert J. Burdette -- The hunting of the snark / Lewis Carroll -- The old man and Jim / James Whitcomb Riley -- A sailor's yarn / James Jeffrey Roche -- The converted cannibals ; The retired pork-butcher and the spook / G.E. Farrow -- Skipper Ireson's ride / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Darius Green and his flying machine / John Townsend Trowbridge -- A great fight / Robert H. Newell -- The Donnybrook jig / Viscount Dillon -- Unfortunate Miss Bailey / Unknown -- The Laird o' Cockpen / Lady Nairne -- A wedding / Sir John Suckling |
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XI. Tribute -- The Ahkond of Swat / Edward Lear -- The Ahkoond of Swat ; Dirge of the Moolla of Kotal / George Thomas Lanigan -- The ballad of bouillabaisse / W.M. Thackeray -- Ould Doctor Mack ; Father O'Flynn / Alfred Perceval Graves -- The bald-headed tyrant / Mary E. Vandyne -- Barney McGee / Richard Hovey -- Address to the toothache / Robert Burns -- A farewell to tobacco / Charles Lamb -- John Barleycorn / Robert Burns -- Stanzas to pale ale / Unknown -- Ode to tobacco / Charles Stuart Calverley -- Sonnet to a clam / John G. Saxe -- To a fly / John Wolcot -- Ode to a bobtailed cat / Unknown -- A dirge / William Augustus Croffut |
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XII. Whimsey -- An elegy ; Parson Gray / Oliver Goldsmith -- The Irishman and the Lady / William Maginn -- The cataract of Lodore / Robert Southey -- Lay of the deserted influenzaed / H. Cholmondeley-Pennell -- Bellagcholly days / Unknown -- Rhyme of the rail ; Echo / John G. Saxe -- Song / Joseph Addison -- A gentle echo on woman / Dean Swift -- Lay of ancient Rome / Thomas R. Ybarra -- A new song / John Gay -- The American traveller / Robert H. Newell -- The zealless xylographer / Mary Mapes Dodge -- The old line fence / A.W. Bellaw -- O-U-G-H / Charles Battell Loomis -- Enigma on the letter H / Catherine M. Fanshawe -- Travesty of Miss Fanshawe's enigma / Horace Mayhew -- An elegy on the death of a mad dog / Oliver Goldsmith -- An epitaph / Matthew Prior -- Old Grimes / Albert Gorton Greene -- The endless song / Ruth McEnery Stuart -- The hundred best books / Mostyn T. Pigott -- The cosmic egg / Unknown -- Five wines / Robert Herrick -- A rhyme for musicians / E. Lemke -- My Madeline / Walter Parke -- Susan Simpson / Unknown -- The march to Moscow / Robert Southey -- Half hours with the classics / H.J. DeBurgh -- On the Oxford carrier / John Milton -- Ninety-nine in the shade / Rossiter Johnson -- The triolet / William Ernest Henley -- The Rondeau / Austin Dobson -- Life / Unknown -- Ode to the human heart / Laman Blanchard -- A strike among the poets / Unknown -- Whatever is, is right / Laman Blanchard -- Nothing / Richard Porson -- Dirge ; O D V ; A man of words ; Similes / Unknown -- No! ; Faithless Nelly Gray ; Sally Simpkin's lament ; Death's ramble / Thomas Hood -- Panegyric on the ladies ; Ambiguous lines / Unknown -- Surnames / James Smith -- A ternary of littles, upon a pipkin of jelly sent to a lady / Robert Herrick -- A carman's account of a law suit / Sir David Lindesay -- Out of sight, out of mind / Barnaby Googe -- Nongtongpaw / Charles Dibdin -- Logical English ; Logic ; The careful penman ; Questions with answers / Unknown -- Conjugal conjugations / A.W. Bellaw -- Love's moods and senses ; The siege of Belgrade / Unknown -- The happy man / Gilles Ménage -- The bells / Unknown -- Takings / Thomas Hood, Jr. -- A bachelor's mono-rhyme / Charles Mackay -- The art of bookkeeping / Laman Blanchard -- An invitation to the zoological gardens / Unknown -- A nocturnal sketch / Thomas Hood -- Lovelilts / Marion Hill -- Jocosa lyra / Austin Dobson -- To a thesaurus / Franklin P. Adams -- The future of the classics / Unknown -- Cautionary verses / Theodore Hook -- The war: A-Z / John R. Edwards -- Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon / Unknown -- To my nose / Alfred A. Forrester -- A polka lyric / Barclay Philips -- A catalectic monody / Unknown -- Ode for a social meeting / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The jovial priest's confession / Leigh Hunt -- Limericks / Carolyn Wells |
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XIII. Nonsense -- Lunar stanzas / Henry Coggswell Knight -- The whango tree ; Three children ; 'Tis midnight / Unknown -- Cossimbazar / Henry S. Leigh -- An unexpected fact / Edward Cannon -- The cumberbunce / Paul West -- Mr. Finney's turnip / Unknown -- Nonsense verses / Charles Lamb -- Like to the thundering tone / Bishop Corbet -- Aestivation / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Uncle Simon and Uncle Jim / Charles Farrar Browne -- A tragic story / W.M. Thackeray -- Sonnet found in a deserted mad house / Unknown -- The Jim-jam king of the Jou-jous / Alaric Bertrand Stuart -- To Marie / John Bennett -- My dream / Unknown -- The rollicking mastodon / Arthur Macy -- The invisible bridge ; The lazy roof ; My feet / Gelett Burgess -- Spirk-troll derisive ; The man in the moon ; The lugubrious whing-whang / James Whitcomb Riley -- The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo ; The jumbles ; The pobble who has no toes ; The new vestments ; The two old bachelors / Edward Lear -- Jabberwocky ; Ways and means ; Humpty Dumpty's recitation ; Some hallucinations / Lewis Carroll -- Sing for the garish eye / W.S. Gilbert -- The shipwreck / E.H. Palmer -- Uffia / Harriet R. White -- 'Tis sweet to roam ; Three jovial huntsmen ; King Arthur ; Hyder Iddle ; The ocean wanderer / Unknown -- Scientific proof / J.W. Foley -- The thingumbob ; Wonders of nature ; Lines by an old fogy ; A country of summer pastoral / Unknown -- Turvey Top / William Sawyer -- A ballad of Bedlam / Unknown |
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XIV. Natural history -- The fastidious serpent / Henry Johnstone -- The legend of the first cam-u-el / Arthur Guiterman -- Unsatisfied yearning / R.K. Munkittrick -- Kindly advice / Unknown -- Kindness to animals / J. Ashby-Sterry -- To be or not to be / Unknown -- The hen / Matthew Claudius -- Of baiting the lion / Owen Seaman -- The flamingo / Lewis Gaylord Clark -- Why doth a pussy cat? / Burges Johnson -- The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- Nirvana / Unknown -- The catfish ; War relief / Oliver Herford -- The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- Mexican serenade / Arthur Guiterman -- Orphan born / Robert J. Burdette -- Divided destinies / Rudyard Kipling -- The viper ; The llama ; The yak ; The frog ; The microbe / Hilaire Belloc -- The great black crow / Philip James Bailey -- The colubriad ; The retired cat / William Cowper -- A Darwinian ballad / Unknown -- The pig / Robert Southey -- A fish story / Henry A. Beers -- The Cameronian cat / Unknown -- The young gazelle / Walter Parke -- The ballad of the emeu / Bret Harte -- The turtle and the flamingo / James Thomas Fields |
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XV. Juniors -- Prior to Miss Belle's appearance / James Whitcomb Riley -- There was a little girl ; The naughty darkey boy / Unknown -- Dutch lullaby ; The dinkey-bird ; The little peach / Eugene Field -- Counsel to those that eat / Unknown -- Home and mother / Mary Mapes Dodge -- Little Orphant Annie / James Whitcomb Riley -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore -- A nursery legend / Henry S. Leigh -- A little gose / Eliza Sproat Turner -- Leedle Yawcob Strauss / Charles Follen Adams -- A parental ode to my son / Thomas Hood -- Little Mamma / Charles Henry Webb -- The comical girl / M. Pelham -- Bunches of grapes / Walter Ramal |
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XVI. Immortal stanzas -- The purple cow / Gelett Burgess -- The young lady of Niger / Unknown -- The laughing willow / Oliver Herford -- Said Opie Reid / Julian Street and James Montgomery Flagg -- Manila / Eugene F. Ware -- On the aristrocracy of Harvard / Dr. Samuel G. Bushnell -- On the democracy of Yale / Dean Jones -- The herring / Sir Walter Scott -- If the man / Samuel Johnson -- The Kilkenny cats / Unknown -- Poor dear Grandpapa / D'Arcy W. Thompson -- More walks / Richard Harris Barham -- Indifference ; Madame Sans Souci ; A riddle ; If ; The Stein family ; Lizzie Borden / Unknown |
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XVII. Contemporary verse -- Thais ; Rain / Newman Levy -- The clean platter ; I want to sit next to Emily / Ogden Nash -- Poems in praise of practically nothing ; A poem intended to incite the utmost depression ; Primer / Samuel Hoffenstein -- The penitent / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- On being a woman ; Theory ; Ballade of unfortunate mammals ; Social note ; Coda / Dorothy Parker -- Sprig fever ; A strange interlude / Margaret Fishback -- Commuters ; Nugatory / E.B. White -- Ballade of a conspicuous omission from The Book of Humorous verse / Carolyn Wells -- To th' minstrel girl ; Between two loves / T.A. Daly -- The owl ; The jungle pest ; The miscegeneous zebra / Roland Young -- The tryst / Christopher Morley -- The Shakespearean bear / Arthur Guiterman -- Our friend the egg ; Marco Polo ; Menelaus / Clarence Day -- If I ever have time for things that matter / Vilda Sauvage Owens -- To the crocus--with my love / Marion Sturges-Jones -- Backstair ballad / David McCord -- Sir Christopher Wren ; J.S. Mill ; Lord Clive / E.C. Bentley |
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committed to retain 20170930 20421231 HathiTrust https://www.hathitrust.org/shared_print_program |
| Subject |
English poetry
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American poetry
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English wit and humor
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American wit and humor
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| Alt Author |
Wells, Carolyn, 1862-1942, compiler
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| Other Form |
Online version: Book of humorous verse. Rev. and amplified ed. Garden City : Garden City Pub. Co., [©1936] (OCoLC)646932122 |
| OCLC # |
492558 |
| ISBN # |
0836961625 |
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9780836961621 |
