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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
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