AFTER OMAR KHAYYAM PAGE
The Golfer’s Rubaiyat _H. W. Boynton_ 3
An Omar for Ladies _Josephine Daskam Bacon_ 5
The Modern Rubaiyat _Kate Masterson_ 7
Lines Written by Request _Owen Seaman_ 10
The Baby’s Omar _Carolyn Wells_ 12
AFTER CHAUCER
Ye Clerke of ye Wethere _Anonymous_ 14
AFTER SPENSER
A Portrait _John Keats_ 15
AFTER SHAKESPEARE
The Bachelor’s Soliloquy _Anonymous_ 17
Poker _Anonymous_ 18
Toothache _Anonymous_ 19
A Dreary Song _Shirley Brooks_ 20
To the Stall-holders at a Fancy Fair _W. S. Gilbert_ 21
Song _J. W. Riley_ 22
The Whist Player’s Soliloquy _Carolyn Wells_ 23
AFTER WITHER
Answer to Master Wither’s Song _Ben Jonson_ 25
AFTER HERRICK
Song _Oliver Herford_ 27
To Julia Under Lock and Key _Owen Seaman_ 27
AFTER NURSERY RHYMES
An Idyll of Phatte and Leene _Anonymous_ 29
Nursery Song in Pidgin English _Anonymous_ 30
The House that Jack Built _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 31
Boston Nursery Rhymes _Rev. Joseph Cook_ 32
A Song of a Heart _Oliver Herford_ 33
The Domicile of John _A. Pope_ 34
Mary and the Lamb _Frank Dempster Sherman_ 37
AFTER WALLER
The Aesthete to the Rose _Punch_ 40
AFTER DRYDEN
Three Blessings _Anonymous_ 41
Oyster Crabs _Carolyn Wells_ 41
AFTER DR. WATTS
The Voice of the Lobster _Lewis Carroll_ 42
The Crocodile _Lewis Carroll_ 43
AFTER GOLDSMITH
When Lovely Woman _Phœbe Cary_ 44
AFTER BURNS
Gaelic Speech _Anonymous_ 45
My Foe _Anonymous_ 46
Rigid Body Sings _J. C. Maxwell_ 48
AFTER CATHERINE FANSHAWE
Cockney Enigma on the Letter H _Horace Mayhew_ 49
AFTER WORDSWORTH
On Wordsworth _Anonymous_ 51
Jacob _Phœbe Cary_ 51
Fragment _Catherine M. Fanshawe_ 52
Jane Smith _Rudyard Kipling_ 54
Only Seven _Henry S. Leigh_ 55
Lucy Lake _Newton Mackintosh_ 57
AFTER SIR WALTER SCOTT
Young Lochinvar _Anonymous_ 58
AFTER COLERIDGE
The Ancient Mariner _Anonymous_ 61
Striking _Charles S. Calverley_ 64
AFTER SOUTHEY
The Old Man’s Cold _Anonymous_ 66
Father William _Lewis Carroll_ 67
Lady Jane _A. T. Quiller-Couch_ 69
AFTER CAMPBELL
The New Arrival _George W. Cable_ 72
John Thompson’s Daughter _Phœbe Cary_ 73
AFTER THOMAS MOORE
The Last Cigar _Anonymous_ 76
’Twas Ever Thus _Anonymous_ 77
There’s a Bower of Bean-Vines _Phœbe Cary_ 78
Disaster _Charles S. Calverley_ 79
Sarah’s Halls _Judy_ 80
’Twas Ever Thus _Henry S. Leigh_ 81
AFTER JANE TAYLOR
The Bat _Lewis Carroll_ 82
AFTER BARRY CORNWALL
The Tea _Tom Hood, Jr._ 83
AFTER BYRON
The Rout of Belgravia _Jon Duan_ 84
A Grievance _J. K. Stephen_ 85
AFTER CHARLES WOLFE
The Burial of the Bachelor _Anonymous_ 88
Not a Sou had He Got _R. Harris Barham_ 89
The Marriage of Sir John Smith _Phœbe Cary_ 91
AFTER MRS. HEMANS
The Thyroid Gland _R. M._ 93
AFTER KEATS
Ode on a Jar of Pickles _Bayard Taylor_ 94
AFTER HEINE
Imitation _H. C. Bunner_ 96
Commonplaces _Rudyard Kipling_ 97
AFTER HOOD
The Dripping Sheet _Anonymous_ 98
I Remember, I Remember _Phœbe Cary_ 101
AFTER ALFRED BUNN
A Yule Tide Parody _Anonymous_ 103
Self-Evident _J. R. Planché_ 104
AFTER LORD MACAULAY
The Laureate’s Tourney _William Aytoun_ 105
AFTER EMERSON
Mutton _Anonymous_ 113
AFTER MARY HOWITT
The Lobster Quadrille _Lewis Carroll_ 114
AFTER MRS. BROWNING
In the Gloaming _Charles S. Calverley_ 116
Gwendoline _Bayard Taylor_ 118
AFTER LONGFELLOW
The Modern Hiawatha _Anonymous_ 120
Higher _Anonymous_ 120
Topside Galah _Anonymous_ 122
Excelsior _Anonymous_ 124
The Day is Done _Phœbe Cary_ 126
A Psalm of Life _Phœbe Cary_ 127
How Often _Ben King_ 129
Desolation _Thomas Masson_ 130
The Birds and the Pheasant _Punch_ 131
AFTER WHITTIER
Hiram Hover _Bayard Taylor_ 133
AFTER MRS. NORTON
The Horse and his Master _Philip F. Allen_ 136
The New Version _W. J. Lampton_ 138
AFTER POE
What Troubled Poe’s Raven _John Bennett_ 139
The Amateur Flute _Anonymous_ 140
Samuel Brown _Phœbe Cary_ 142
The Promissory Note _Bayard Taylor_ 143
The Cannibal Flea _Tom Hood, Jr._ 145
Annabel Lee _Stanley Huntley_ 147
The Bells _Judy_ 148
The Goblin Goose _Punch_ 150
AFTER LORD HOUGHTON
Love and Science _Anonymous_ 153
AFTER TENNYSON
The Bather’s Dirge _Tennyson Minor_ 155
Little Miss Muffet _Anonymous_ 156
The Musical Pitch _Anonymous_ 158
To an Importunate Host _Anonymous_ 158
The Village Choir _Anonymous_ 159
The Biter Bit _William Aytoun_ 161
The Laureate _William Aytoun_ 163
The Lay of the Lovelorn _William Aytoun_ 165
In Immemoriam _Cuthbert Bede_ 174
Sir Eggnogg _Bayard Taylor_ 175
Godiva _Oliver Herford_ 177
A Laureate’s Log _Punch_ 178
The Recognition _Wm. Sawyer_ 180
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell _A. C. Swinburne_ 180
Timbuctoo _W. M. Thackeray_ 183
AFTER TUPPER
Of Friendship _Charles S. Calverley_ 185
Of Reading _Charles S. Calverley_ 186
AFTER THACKERAY
The Willow-Tree _W. M. Thackeray_ 188
AFTER CHARLES DICKENS
Man’s Place in Nature _Anonymous_ 191
AFTER ROBERT BROWNING
Home Truths from Abroad _Anonymous_ 193
After Browning _Anonymous_ 194
The Cock and the Bull _Charles S. Calverley_ 195
A Staccato to O Le Lupe _Bliss Carman_ 200
By the Sea _Bayard Taylor_ 203
Angelo Orders his Dinner _Bayard Taylor_ 205
The Flight of the Bucket _Rudyard Kipling_ 206
The Jam Pot _Rudyard Kipling_ 210
Imitation of Robert Browning _J. K. Stephen_ 210
The Last Ride Together _J. K. Stephen_ 212
Up the Spout _A. C. Swinburne_ 215
AFTER WALT WHITMAN
An American, one of the Roughs,
a Kosmos _Anonymous_ 219
Camerados _Bayard Taylor_ 220
Imitation of Whitman _Judy_ 221
Imitation of Whitman _J. K. Stephen_ 224
The Poet and the Woodlouse _A. C. Swinburne_ 224
AFTER CHARLES KINGSLEY
Three Little Fishers _Frank H. Stauffer_ 229
The Three Poets _Lilian Whiting_ 230
AFTER MRS. R. H. STODDARD
The Nettle _Bayard Taylor_ 231
AFTER BAYARD TAYLOR
Hadramaut _Bayard Taylor_ 233
AFTER WILLIAM MORRIS
Estunt the Griff _Rudyard Kipling_ 235
AFTER ALFRED AUSTIN
An Ode _Anthony C. Deane_ 237
AFTER W. S. GILBERT
Ode to a London Fog _Anonymous_ 239
President Garfield _Anonymous_ 240
Propinquity Needed _Charles Battell Loomis_ 241
AFTER R. H. STODDARD
The Cantelope _Bayard Taylor_ 243
AFTER A. A. PROCTOR
The Lost Voice _A. H. S._ 244
The Lost Ape _J. W. G. W._ 245
The Lost Word _C. H. Webb_ 246
AFTER GEORGE MEREDITH
At the Sign of the Cock _Owen Seaman_ 248
AFTER D. G. ROSSETTI
A Christmas Wail _Anonymous_ 252
Ballad _Charles S. Calverley_ 253
Cimabuella _Bayard Taylor_ 255
The Poster Girl _Carolyn Wells_ 257
AFTER JEAN INGELOW
Lovers, and a Reflection _Charles S. Calverley_ 259
The Shrimp Gatherers _Bayard Taylor_ 261
AFTER CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Remember _Judy_ 263
AFTER LEWIS CARROLL
Waggawocky _Shirley Brooks_ 264
The Vulture and the Husband-Man _A. C. Hilton_ 265
AFTER A. C. SWINBURNE
Gillian _Anonymous_ 268
Atalanta in Camden-town _Lewis Carroll_ 270
The Manlet _Lewis Carroll_ 272
If _Mortimer Collins_ 274
The Maid of the Meerschaum _Rudyard Kipling_ 275
Quaeritur _Rudyard Kipling_ 277
A Melton Mowbray Pork-pie _Richard Le Gallienne_ 278
Foam and Fangs _Walter Parke_ 278
A Song of Renunciation _Owen Seaman_ 279
Nephelidia _A. C. Swinburne_ 282
The Lay of Macaroni _Bayard Taylor_ 284
AFTER BRET HARTE
The Heathen Pass-ee _A. C. Hilton_ 286
De Tea Fabula _A. T. Quiller-Couch_ 289
AFTER AUSTIN DOBSON
The Prodigals _Anonymous_ 292
AFTER ANDREW LANG
Bo-Peep _Anthony C. Deane_ 294
AFTER W. E. HENLEY
Imitation _Anthony C. Deane_ 296
AFTER R. L. STEVENSON
Bed During Exams _Clara Warren Vail_ 298
AFTER OSCAR WILDE
More Impressions _Oscuro Wildgoose_ 299
Nursery Rhymes à la Mode _Anonymous_ 299
A Maudle-In Ballad _Punch_ 300
Quite the Cheese _H. C. Waring_ 302
AFTER WILLIAM WATSON
The Three Mice _Anthony C. Deane_ 304
AFTER KIPLING
Fuzzy Wuzzy Leaves Us _E. P. C._ 305
A Ballad _Guy Wetmore Carryl_ 307
Jack and Jill _Anthony C. Deane_ 309
The Legend of Realism _Hilda Johnson_ 313
AFTER STEPHEN PHILLIPS
Little Jack Horner _Anthony C. Deane_ 315
AFTER FIONA MCLEOD
The Cult of the Celtic _Anthony C. Deane_ 317
AFTER VARIOUS WRITERS OF VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ
Behold the Deeds _H. C. Bunner_ 319
Culture in the Slums _W. E. Henley_ 322
A Ballade of Ballade-Mongers _Augustus Moore_ 322
AFTER VARIOUS POPULAR SONGS
Beautiful Snow _Anonymous_ 324
The Newest Thing in Christmas Carols _Anonymous_ 325
The Tale of Lord Lovell _Anonymous_ 326
“Songs Without Words” _Robert J. Burdette_ 327
The Elderly Gentleman _George Canning_ 328
Turtle Soup _Lewis Carroll_ 329
Some Day _F. P. Doveton_ 329
If I Should Die To-night _Ben King_ 331
A Love Song _Dean Swift_ 331
Old Fashioned Fun _W. M. Thackeray_ 333
THEMES WITH VARIATIONS
Home Sweet Home with Variations _H. C. Bunner_ 334
MODERN VERSIFICATION ON ANCIENT THEMES
Goose à la Mode _E. Cavazza_ 346
Three Children Sliding 346
Jack and Jill _E. Cavazza_ 347
Jack and Jill _Charles Battell Loomis_ 348
The Rejected “National Hymns” _Robert Henry Newell_ 352
A Theme with Variations _Barry Pain_ 356
The Poets at Tea _Barry Pain_ 359
The Poets at a House Party _Carolyn Wells_ 363
An Old Song by New Singers _A. C. Wilkie_ 368