| At the Sign of the Cock | Owen Seaman | 414 |
| Presto Furioso | Owen Seaman | 417 |
| To Julia in Shooting Togs | Owen Seaman | 418 |
| Farewell | Bert Leston Taylor | 419 |
| Here is the Tale | Anthony C. Deane | 421 |
| The Willows | Bret Harte | 423 |
| A Ballad | Guy Wetmore Carryl | 426 |
| The Translated Way | Franklin P. Adams | 427 |
| Commonplaces | Rudyard Kipling | 427 |
| Angelo Orders His Dinner | Bayard Taylor | 428 |
| The Promissory Note | Bayard Taylor | 429 |
| Camerados | Bayard Taylor | 430 |
| The Last Ride Together | James Kenneth Stephen | 431 |
| Imitation of Walt Whitman | Unknown | 434 |
| Salad | Mortimer Collins | 436 |
| If | Mortimer Collins | 436 |
| The Jabberwocky of Authors | Harry Persons Taber | 437 |
| The Town of Nice | Herman C. Merivale | 438 |
| The Willow-Tree | W. M. Thackeray | 439 |
| A Ballade of Ballade-Mongers | Augustus M. Moore | 441 |
| |
| VIII: BATHOS |
| The Confession | Richard Harris Barham ["Thomas Ingoldsby"] | 443 |
| If You Have Seen | Thomas Moore | 444 |
| Circumstance | Frederick Locker-Lampson | 444 |
| Elegy | Arthur Guiterman | 445 | [Pg xvii] |
| Our Traveler | H. Cholmondeley-Pennell | 445 |
| Optimism | Newton Mackintosh | 445 |
| The Declaration | N. P. Willis | 446 |
| He Came to Pay | Parmenas Mix | 447 |
| The Forlorn One | Richard Harris Barham ["Thomas Ingoldsby"] | 449 |
| | |
| Rural Raptures | Unknown | 450 |
| A Fragment | Unknown | 450 |
| The Bitter Bit | William E. Aytoun | 451 |
| Comfort in Affliction | William E. Aytoun | 453 |
| The Husband's Petition | William E. Aytoun | 454 |
| Lines Written After a Battle | Unknown | 456 |
| Lines | Unknown | 456 |
| The Imaginative Crisis | Unknown | 457 |
| |
| IX: PARODY |
| The Higher Pantheism in a Nut-Shell | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 458 |
| Nephelidia | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 459 |
| Up the Spout | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 460 |
| In Memoriam | Cuthbert Bede | 463 |
| Lucy Lake | Newton Mackintosh | 463 |
| The Cock and the Bull | Charles Stuart Calverley | 464 |
| Ballad | Charles Stuart Calverley | 467 |
| Disaster | Charles Stuart Calverley | 469 |
| Wordsworthian Reminiscence | Unknown | 470 |
| Inspect Us | Edith Daniell | 471 |
| The Messed Damozel | Charles Hanson Towne | 471 |
| A Melton Mowbray Pork-Pie | Richard le Gallienne | 472 |
| Israfiddlestrings | Unknown | 472 |
| After Dilettante Concetti | H. D. Traill | 474 |
| Whenceness of the Which | Unknown | 476 |
| The Little Star | Unknown | 476 |
| The Original Lamb | Unknown | 477 |
| Sainte Margérie | Unknown | 477 |
| Robert Frost | Louis Untermeyer | 479 |
| Owen Seaman | Louis Untermeyer | 480 |
| The Modern Hiawatha | Unknown | 482 |
| Somewhere-in-Europe-Wocky | F. G. Hartswick | 482 |
| Rigid Body Sings | J. C. Maxwell | 483 |
| A Ballad of High Endeavor | Unknown | 484 |
| Father William | Lewis Carroll | 485 |
| The Poets at Tea | Barry Pain | 486 |
| How Often | Ben King | 489 |
| If I Should Die To-Night | Ben King | 489 |
| "The Day is Done" | Phoebe Cary | 490 |
| Jacob | Phoebe Cary | 491 |
| Ballad of the Canal | Phoebe Cary | 492 |
| "There's a Bower of Beanvines" | Phoebe Cary | 493 |
| Reuben | Phoebe Cary | 493 |
| The Wife | Phoebe Cary | 494 |
| When Lovely Woman | Phoebe Cary | 494 |
| John Thomson's Daughter | Phoebe Cary | 494 |
| A Portrait | John Keats | 496 |
| Annabel Lee | Stanley Huntley | 497 |
| Home Sweet Home with Variations | H. C. Bunner | 498 |
| An Old Song by New Singers | A. C. Wilkie | 506 |
| More Impressions | Oscuro Wildgoose | 509 |
| Nursery Rhymes á la Mode | Unknown | 509 |
| A Maudle-In Ballad | Unknown | 510 | [Pg xviii] |
| Gillian | Unknown | 511 |
| Extracts from the Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne | Gelett Burgess | 512 |
| Diversions of the Re-Echo Club | Carolyn Wells | 515 |
| Styx River Anthology | Carolyn Wells | 521 |
| Answer to Master Wither's Song, "Shall I, Wasting in Despair?" | Ben Jonson | 526 |
| Song of the Springtide | Unknown | 527 |
| The Village Choir | Unknown | 528 |
| My Foe | Unknown | 529 |
| Nursery Song in Pidgin English | Unknown | 530 |
| Father William | Unknown | 531 |
| A Poe-'em of Passion | C. F. Lummis | 532 |
| How the Daughters Come Down at Dunoon | H. Cholmondeley-Pennell | 533 |
| To an Importunate Host | Unknown | 534 |
| Cremation | William Sawyer | 534 |
| An Imitation of Wordsworth | Catharine M. Fanshawe | 535 |
| The Lay of the Love-Lorn | Aytoun and Martin | 537 |
| Only Seven | Henry S. Leigh | 543 |
| 'Twas Ever Thus | Henry S. Leigh | 544 |
| Foam and Fangs | Walter Parke | 544 |
| |
| X: NARRATIVE |
| Little Billee | W. M. Thackeray | 546 |
| The Crystal Palace | W. M. Thackeray | 547 |
| The Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown | W. M. Thackeray | 552 |
| King John and the Abbot | Unknown | 554 |
| On the Death of a Favorite Cat | Thomas Gray | 557 |
| Misadventures at Margate | Richard Harris Barham ["Thomas Ingoldsby"] | 558 |
| The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger | Horace Smith | 563 |
| The Diverting History of John Gilpin | William Cowper | 564 |
| Paddy O'Rafther | Samuel Lover | 571 |
| Here She Goes and There She Goes | James Nack | 572 |
| The Quaker's Meeting | Samuel Lover | 576 |
| The Jester Condemned to Death | Horace Smith | 578 |
| The Deacon's Masterpiece | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 580 |
| The Ballad of the Oysterman | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 583 |
| The Well of St. Keyne | Robert Southey | 584 |
| The Jackdaw of Rheims | Richard Harris Barham ["Thomas Ingoldsby"] | 586 |
| The Knight and the Lady | Richard Harris Barham ["Thomas Ingoldsby"] | 590 |
| An Eastern Question | H. M. Paull | 598 |
| My Aunt's Spectre | Mortimer Collins | 600 |
| Casey at the Bat | Ernest Lawrence Thayer | 601 |
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Robert Browning | 603 |
| The Goose | Lord Tennyson | 611 |
| The Ballad of Charity | Charles Godfrey Leland | 613 |
| The Post Captain | Charles E. Carryl | 615 |
| Robinson Crusoe's Story | Charles E. Carryl | 617 |
| Ben Bluff | Thomas Hood | 619 |
| The Pilgrims and the Peas | John Wolcot | 621 |
| Tam O'Shanter | Robert Burns | 623 |
| That Gentleman from Boston Town | Joaquin Miller | 629 |
| The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" | W. S. Gilbert | 632 | [Pg xix] |
| Ferdinando and Elvira | W. S. Gilbert | 635 |
| Gentle Alice Brown | W. S. Gilbert | 639 |
| The Story of Prince Agib | W. S. Gilbert | 641 |
| Sir Guy the Crusader | W. S. Gilbert | 644 |
| Kitty Wants to Write | Gelett Burgess | 646 |
| Dighton is Engaged | Gelett Burgess | 647 |
| Plain Language from Truthful James | Bret Harte | 648 |
| The Society Upon the Stanisalaus | Bret Harte | 650 |
| "Jim" | Bret Harte | 652 |
| William Brown of Oregon | Joaquin Miller | 653 |
| Little Breeches | John Hay | 657 |
| The Enchanted Shirt | John Hay | 658 |
| Jim Bludso | John Hay | 661 |
| Wreck of the "Julie Plante" | William Henry Drummond | 662 |
| The Alarmed Skipper | James T. Fields | 664 |
| The Elderly Gentleman | George Canning | 665 |
| Saying Not Meaning | William Basil Wake | 666 |
| Hans Breitmann's Party | Charles Godfrey Leland | 668 |
| Ballad by Hans Breitmann | Charles Godfrey Leland | 669 |
| Grampy Sings a Song | Holman F. Day | 670 |
| The First Banjo | Irwin Russell | 672 |
| The Romance of the Carpet | Robert J. Burdette | 674 |
| Hunting of the Snark, The | Lewis Carroll | 676 |
| The Old Man and Jim | James Whitcomb Riley | 678 |
| A Sailor's Yarn | James Jeffrey Roche | 680 |
| The Converted Cannibals | G. E. Farrow | 683 |
| The Retired Pork-Butcher and the Spook | G. E. Farrow | 685 |
| Skipper Ireson's Ride | John Greenleaf Whittier | 688 |
| Darius Green and His Flying-Machine | John Townsend Trowbridge | 690 |
| A Great Fight | Robert H. Newell | 697 |
| The Donnybrook Jig | Viscount Dillon | 700 |
| Unfortunate Miss Bailey | Unknown | 702 |
| The Laird o' Cockpen | Lady Nairne | 703 |
| A Wedding | Sir John Suckling | 704 |
| |
| XI: TRIBUTE |
| The Ahkond of Swat | Edward Lear | 708 |
| The Ahkoond of Swat | George Thomas Lanigan | 710 |
| Dirge of the Moolla of Kotal | George Thomas Lanigan | 712 |
| The Ballad of Bouillabaisse | W. M. Thackeray | 714 |
| Ould Doctor Mack | Alfred Perceval Graves | 717 |
| Father O'Flynn | Alfred Perceval Graves | 719 |
| The Bald-headed Tyrant | Vandyne, Mary E. | 720 |
| Barney McGee | Richard Hovey | 721 |
| Address to the Toothache | Robert Burns | 724 |
| A Farewell to Tobacco | Charles Lamb | 726 |
| John Barleycorn | Robert Burns | 730 |
| Stanzas to Pale Ale | Unknown | 732 |
| Ode to Tobacco | Charles Stuart Calverley | 732 |
| Sonnet to a Clam | John G. Saxe | 734 |
| To a Fly | John Wolcot | 734 |
| Ode to a Bobtailed Cat | Unknown | 737 |
| |
| XII: WHIMSEY |
| An Elegy | Oliver Goldsmith | 740 |
| Parson Gray | Oliver Goldsmith | 741 |
| The Irishman and the Lady | William Maginn | 742 | [Pg xx] |
| The Cataract of Lodore | Robert Southey | 743 |
| Lay of the Deserted Influenzaed | H. Cholmondeley-Pennell | 746 |
| Bellagcholly Days | Unknown | 747 |
| Rhyme of the Rail | John G. Saxe | 748 |
| Echo | John G. Saxe | 750 |
| Song | Joseph Addison | 751 |
| A Gentle Echo on Woman | Dean Swift | 752 |
| Lay of Ancient Rome | Thomas R. Ybarra | 753 |
| A New Song | John Gay | 754 |
| The American Traveller | Robert H. Newell | 757 |
| The Zealless Xylographer | Mary Mapes Dodge | 759 |
| The Old Line Fence | A. W. Bellaw | 760 |
| O-U-G-H | Charles Battell Loomis | 761 |
| Enigma on the Letter H | Catherine M. Fanshawe | 762 |
| Travesty of Miss Fanshawe's Enigma | Horace Mayhew | 763 |
| An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog | Oliver Goldsmith | 764 |
| An Epitaph | Matthew Prior | 765 |
| Old Grimes | Albert Gorton Greene | 766 |
| The Endless Song | Ruth McEnery Stuart | 768 |
| The Hundred Best Books | Mostyn T. Pigott | 769 |
| The Cosmic Egg | Unknown | 771 |
| Five Wines | Robert Herrick | 772 |
| A Rhyme for Musicians | E. Lemke | 772 |
| My Madeline | Walter Parke | 773 |
| Susan Simpson | Unknown | 774 |
| The March to Moscow | Robert Southey | 775 |
| Half Hours with the Classics | H. J. DeBurgh | 779 |
| On the Oxford Carrier | John Milton | 780 |
| Ninety-Nine in the Shade | Rossiter Johnson | 781 |
| The Triolet | William Ernest Henley | 782 |
| The Rondeau | Austin Dobson | 782 |
| Life | Unknown | 783 |
| Ode to the Human Heart | Laman Blanchard | 784 |
| A Strike Among the Poets | Unknown | 785 |
| Whatever Is, Is Right | Laman Blanchard | 786 |
| Nothing | Richard Porson | 786 |
| Dirge | Unknown | 787 |
| O D V | Unknown | 788 |
| A Man of Words | Unknown | 790 |
| Similes | Unknown | 791 |
| No! | Thomas Hood | 792 |
| Faithless Sally Brown | Thomas Hood | 792 |
| Tim Turpin | Thomas Hood | 795 |
| Faithless Nelly Gray | Thomas Hood | 797 |
| Sally Simpkin's Lament | Thomas Hood | 800 |
| Death's Ramble | Thomas Hood | 801 |
| Panegyric on the Ladies | Unknown | 803 |
| Ambiguous Lines | Unknown | 804 |
| Surnames | James Smith | 804 |
| A Ternary of Littles, Upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady | Robert Herrick | 806 |
| A Carman's Account of a Law Suit | Sir David Lindesay | 807 |
| Out of Sight, Out of Mind | Barnaby Googe | 807 |
| Nongtongpaw | Charles Dibdin | 808 |
| Logical English | Unknown | 809 |
| Logic | Unknown | 809 |
| The Careful Penman | Unknown | 810 |
| Questions with Answers | Unknown | 810 |
| Conjugal Conjugations | A. W. Bellaw | 810 |
| Love's Moods and Senses | Unknown | 812 |
| The Siege of Belgrade | Unknown | 813 | [Pg xxi] |
| The Happy Man | Gilles Ménage | 814 |
| The Bells | Unknown | 816 |
| Takings | Thomas Hood, Jr. | 817 |
| A Bachelor's Mono-Rhyme | Charles Mackay | 817 |
| The Art of Bookkeeping | Laman Blanchard | 818 |
| An Invitation to the Zoological Gardens | Unknown | 822 |
| A Nocturnal Sketch | Thomas Hood | 823 |
| Lovelilts | Marion Hill | 824 |
| Jocosa Lyra | Austin Dobson | 824 |
| To a Thesaurus | Franklin P. Adams | 825 |
| The Future of the Classics | Unknown | 826 |
| Cautionary Verses | Theodore Hook | 828 |
| The War: A-Z | John R. Edwards | 829 |
| Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon | Unknown | 830 |
| To My Nose | Alfred A. Forrester | 832 |
| A Polka Lyric | Barclay Philips | 832 |
| A Catalectic Monody | Unknown | 833 |
| Ode for a Social Meeting | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 833 |
| The Jovial Priest's Confession | Leigh Hunt | 834 |
| Limericks | Carolyn Wells | 835 |
| |
| XIII: NONSENSE |
| Lunar Stanzas | Henry Coggswell Knight | 841 |
| The Whango Tree | Unknown | 842 |
| Three Children | Unknown | 843 |
| 'Tis Midnight | Unknown | 843 |
| Cossimbazar | Henry S. Leigh | 843 |
| An Unexpected Fact | Edward Cannon | 844 |
| The Cumberbunce | Paul West | 844 |
| Mr. Finney's Turnip | Unknown | 847 |
| Nonsense Verses | Charles Lamb | 848 |
| Like to the Thundering Tone | Bishop Corbet | 848 |
| Aestivation | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 849 |
| Uncle Simon and Uncle Jim | Charles Farrar Browne ["Artemus Ward"] | 849 |
| A Tragic Story | W. M. Thackeray | 850 |
| Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House | Unknown | 851 |
| The Jim-Jam King of the Jou-Jous | Alaric Bertrand Stuart | 851 |
| To Marie | John Bennett | 852 |
| My Dream | Unknown | 853 |
| The Rollicking Mastodon | Arthur Macy | 853 |
| The Invisible Bridge | Gelett Burgess | 855 |
| The Lazy Roof | Gelett Burgess | 855 |
| My Feet | Gelett Burgess | 855 |
| Spirk Troll-Derisive | James Whitcomb Riley | 855 |
| The Man in the Moon | James Whitcomb Riley | 856 |
| The Lugubrious Whing-Whang | James Whitcomb Riley | 858 |
| The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo | Edward Lear | 859 |
| The Jumbles | Edward Lear | 862 |
| The Pobble Who Has no Toes | Edward Lear | 865 |
| The New Vestments | Edward Lear | 866 |
| The Two Old Bachelors | Edward Lear | 868 |
| Jabberwocky | Lewis Carroll | 869 |
| Ways and Means | Lewis Carroll | 870 |
| Humpty Dumpty's Recitation | Lewis Carroll | 872 |
| Some Hallucinations | Lewis Carroll | 874 |
| Sing for the Garish Eye | W. S. Gilbert | 875 |
| The Shipwreck | E. H. Palmer | 876 | [Pg xxii] |
| Uffia | Harriet R. White | 877 |
| 'Tis Sweet to Roam | Unknown | 878 |
| Three Jovial Huntsmen | Unknown | 878 |
| King Arthur | Unknown | 879 |
| Hyder Iddle | Unknown | 879 |
| The Ocean Wanderer | Unknown | 879 |
| Scientific Proof | J. W. Foley | 880 |
| The Thingumbob | Unknown | 882 |
| Wonders of Nature | Unknown | 882 |
| Lines by an Old Fogy | Unknown | 882 |
| A Country Summer Pastoral | Unknown | 883 |
| Turvey Top | William Sawyer | 884 |
| A Ballad of Bedlam | Unknown | 886 |
| |
| XIV: NATURAL HISTORY |
| The Fastidious Serpent | Henry Johnstone | 887 |
| The Legend of the First Cam-u-el | Arthur Guiterman | 888 |
| Unsatisfied Yearning | R. K. Munkittrick | 889 |
| Kindly Advice | Unknown | 890 |
| Kindness to Animals | J. Ashby-Sterry | 891 |
| To Be or Not To Be | Unknown | 891 |
| The Hen | Matthew Claudius | 892 |
| Of Baiting the Lion | Owen Seaman | 893 |
| The Flamingo | Lewis Gaylord Clark | 894 |
| Why Doth a Pussy Cat? | Burges Johnson | 895 |
| The Walrus and the Carpenter | Lewis Carroll | 896 |
| Nirvana | Unknown | 900 |
| The Catfish | Oliver Herford | 900 |
| War Relief | Oliver Herford | 901 |
| The Owl and the Pussy-Cat | Edward Lear | 901 |
| Mexican Serenade | Arthur Guiterman | 902 |
| Orphan Born | Robert J. Burdette | 903 |
| Divided Destinies | Rudyard Kipling | 904 |
| The Viper | Hilaire Belloc | 906 |
| The Llama | Hilaire Belloc | 906 |
| The Yak | Hilaire Belloc | 906 |
| The Frog | Hilaire Belloc | 907 |
| The Microbe | Hilaire Belloc | 907 |
| The Great Black Crow | Philip James Bailey | 907 |
| The Colubriad | William Cowper | 909 |
| The Retired Cat | William Cowper | 910 |
| A Darwinian Ballad | Unknown | 913 |
| The Pig | Robert Southey | 914 |
| A Fish Story | Henry A. Beers | 916 |
| The Cameronian Cat | Unknown | 917 |
| The Young Gazelle | Walter Parke | 918 |
| The Ballad of the Emeu | Bret Harte | 921 |
| The Turtle and Flamingo | James Thomas Fields | 923 |
| |
| XV: JUNIORS |
| Prior to Miss Belle's Appearance | James Whitcomb Riley | 925 |
| There Was a Little Girl | Unknown | 926 |
| The Naughty Darkey Boy | Unknown | 927 |
| Dutch Lullaby | Eugene Field | 928 |
| The Dinkey-Bird | Eugene Field | 929 |
| The Little Peach | Eugene Field | 931 |
| Counsel to Those that Eat | Unknown | 932 |
| Home and Mother | Mary Mapes Dodge | 932 |
| Little Orphant Annie | James Whitcomb Riley | 934 | [Pg xxiii] |
| A Visit From St. Nicholas | Clement Clarke Moore | 935 |
| A Nursery Legend | Henry S. Leigh | 937 |
| A Little Goose | Eliza Sproat Turner | 938 |
| Leedle Yawcob Strauss | Charles Follen Adams | 940 |
| A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months | Thomas Hood | 941 |
| Little Mamma | Charles Henry Webb | 943 |
| The Comical Girl | M. Pelham | 946 |
| Bunches of Grapes | Walter Ramal | 947 |
| |
| XVI: IMMORTAL STANZAS |
| The Purple Cow | Gelett Burgess | 948 |
| The Young Lady of Niger | Unknown | 948 |
| The Laughing Willow | Oliver Herford | 948 |
| Said Opie Reed | Julian Street and James Montgomery Flagg | 948 |
