So much to _our_ house?--_Say_?
Come to see our big sister!--
An' Charley he says 'at you kissed her
An' he ketched you, thuther day!--
Didn' you, Charley?--But we p'omised Belle
And crossed our heart to never to tell--
'Cause _she_ gived us some o' them-er
Chawk'lut-drops 'at you bringed to her!
Charley he's my little b'uther--
An' we has a-mostest fun,
Don't we, Charley?--Our Muther,
Whenever we whips one-anuther,
Tries to whip _us_--an' we _run_--
Don't we, Charley?--An' nen, bime-by,
Nen she gives us cake--an' pie--
Don't she, Charley?--when we come in
An' p'omise never to do it agin!
_He's_ named Charley.--I'm _Willie_--
An' I'm got the purtiest name!
But Uncle Bob _he_ calls me "Billy"--
Don't he, Charley?--'Nour filly
We named "Billy," the same
Ist like me! An' our Ma said
'At "Bob put foolishnuss into our head!"--
Didn' she, Charley?--An' _she_ don't know
Much about _boys_!--'Cause Bob said so!
Baby's a funniest feller!
Naint no hair on his head--
_Is_ they, Charley? It's meller
Wite up there! An' ef Belle er
Us ask wuz _we_ that way, Ma said,--
"Yes; an' yer _Pa's_ head wuz soft as that,
An' it's that way yet!"--An' Pa grabs his hat
An' says, "Yes, childern, she's right about Pa--
'Cause that's the reason he married yer Ma!"
An' our Ma says 'at "Belle couldn'
Ketch nothin 'at all but ist _'bows!'_"
An' _Pa_ says 'at "you're soft as puddun!"--
An _Uncle Bob_ says "you're a good-un--
'Cause he can tell by yer nose!"--
Didn' he, Charley? And when Belle'll play
In the poller on th' pianer, some day,
Bob makes up funny songs about you,
Till she gits mad--like he wants her to!
Our sister _Fanny_, she's _'leven_
Years old. 'At's mucher 'an _I_--
Ain't it, Charley?... I'm seven!--
But our sister Fanny's in _Heaven_!
Nere's where you go ef you die!--
Don't you, Charley? Nen you has _wings_--
_Ist like Fanny_!--an' _purtiest things_!--
Don't you, Charley? An' nen you can _fly_--
Ist fly--an' _ever'_thing!... Wisht _I'd_ die!
_James Whitcomb Riley._
THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL
There was a little girl,
And she had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good
She was very, very good,
And when she was bad she was horrid.
One day she went upstairs,
When her parents, unawares,
In the kitchen were occupied with meals
And she stood upon her head
In her little trundle-bed,
And then began hooraying with her heels.
Her mother heard the noise,
And she thought it was the boys
A-playing at a combat in the attic;
But when she climbed the stair,
And found Jemima there,
She took and she did spank her most emphatic.
_Unknown._
THE NAUGHTY DARKEY BOY
There was a cruel darkey boy,
Who sat upon the shore,
A catching little fishes by
The dozen and the score.
And as they squirmed and wriggled there,
He shouted loud with glee,
"You surely cannot want to live,
You're little-er dan me."
Just then with a malicious leer,
And a capacious smile,
Before him from the water deep
There rose a crocodile.
He eyed the little darkey boy,
Then heaved a blubbering sigh,
And said, "You cannot want to live,
You're little-er than I."
The fishes squirm and wriggle still,
Beside that sandy shore,
The cruel little darkey boy,
Was never heard of more.
_Unknown._
DUTCH LULLABY
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe,--
Sailed on a river of misty light
Into a sea of dew.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to fish for the herring-fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we,"
Said Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
The old moon laughed and sung a song,
As they rocked in the wooden shoe;
And the wind that sped them all night long
Ruffled the waves of dew;
The little stars were the herring-fish
That lived in the beautiful sea.
"Now cast your nets wherever you wish,
But never afeard are we!"
So cried the stars to the fishermen three,
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
All night long their nets they threw
For the fish in the twinkling foam,
Then down from the sky came the wooden shoe,
Bringing the fishermen home;
'Twas all so pretty a sail, it seemed
As if it could not be;
And some folk thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed
Of sailing that beautiful sea;
But I shall name you the fishermen three:
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one's trundle-bed;
So shut your eyes while Mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock on the misty sea
Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three,
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
_Eugene Field._
THE DINKEY-BIRD
In an ocean, 'way out yonder
(As all sapient people know),
Is the land of Wonder-Wander,
Whither children love to go;
It's their playing, romping, swinging,
That give great joy to me
While the Dinkey-Bird goes singing
In the Amfalula-tree!
There the gum-drops grow like cherries,
And taffy's thick as peas,--
Caramels you pick like berries
When, and where, and how you please
Big red sugar-plums are clinging
To the cliffs beside that sea
Where the Dinkey-Bird is singing
In the Amfalula-tree.
So when children shout and scamper
And make merry all the day,
When there's naught to put a damper
To the ardor of their play;
When I hear their laughter ringing,
Then I'm sure as sure can be
That the Dinkey-Bird is singing
In the Amfalula-tree.
For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras
And staccatos are so sweet--
His roulades, appogiaturas,
And robustos so complete,
That the youth of every nation--
Be they near or far away--
Have especial delectation
In that gladsome roundelay.
Their eyes grow bright and brighter,
Their lungs begin to crow,
Their hearts get light and lighter,
And their cheeks are all aglow;
For an echo cometh bringing
The news to all and me
That the Dinkey-Bird is singing
In the Amfalula-tree.
I'm sure you'd like to go there
To see your feathered friend--
And so many goodies grow there
You would like to comprehend!
_Speed, little dreams, your winging
To that land across the sea
Where the Dinkey-Bird is singing
In the Amfalula-Tree!_
_Eugene Field._
THE LITTLE PEACH
A little peach in the orchard grew,
A little peach of emerald hue:
Warmed by the sun, and wet by the dew,
It grew.
One day, walking the orchard through,
That little peach dawned on the view
Of Johnny Jones and his sister Sue--
Those two.
Up at the peach a club they threw:
Down from the limb on which it grew,
Fell the little peach of emerald hue--
Too true!
John took a bite, and Sue took a chew,
And then the trouble began to brew,--
Trouble the doctor couldn't subdue,--
Paregoric too.
Under the turf where the daisies grew,
They planted John and his sister Sue;
And their little souls to the angels flew--
Boo-hoo!
But what of the peach of emerald hue,
Warmed by the sun, and wet by the dew?
Ah, well! its mission on earth is through--
Adieu!
_Eugene Field._
COUNSEL TO THOSE THAT EAT
With chocolate-cream that you buy in the cake
Large mouthfuls and hurry are quite a mistake.
Wise persons prolong it as long as they can
But putting in practice this excellent plan.
The cream from the chocolate lining they dig
With a Runaway match or a clean little twig.
Many hundreds,--nay, thousands--of scoopings they make
Before they've exhausted a twopenny cake.
With ices 'tis equally wrongful to haste;
You ought to go slowly and dwell on each taste.
Large mouthfuls are painful, as well as unwise,
For they lead to an ache at the back of the eyes.
And the delicate sip is e'en better, one finds,
If the ice is a mixture of different kinds.
_Unknown._
HOME AND MOTHER
Sleep, my own darling,
By, baby, by;
Mother is with thee,
By, baby, by.
There, baby. (Oh, how the wild winds wail!)
Hush, baby. (Turning to sleet and hail;
Ah, how the pine-tree moans and mutters!--
I wonder if Ellen will think of the shutters?)
Sleep, my own darling,
By, baby, by;
Mother is with thee,
By, baby, by.
Rest thee. (She couldn't have left the blower
Down in the parlor? There's so much to show her!)
By-by, my sweetest. (Now the rain's pouring!
Is it wind or the dining-room fire that's roaring?)
Sleep, my own darling,
By, baby, by;
Mother is with thee,
By, baby, by.
How lovely his forehead!--my own blessed pet!
He's nearly asleep. (Now I mustn't forget
That pork in the brine, and the stair-rods to-morrow.)
Heaven shield him forever from trouble and sorrow!
Sleep, my own darling,
By, baby, by;
Mother is with thee,
By, baby, by.
Those dear little ringlets, so silky and bright!
(I do hope the muffins will be nice and light.)
How lovely he is! (Yes, she said she could fry.)
Oh, what would I do if my baby should die!
Sleep, my own darling,
By, baby, by;
Mother is with thee,
By, baby, by.
That sweet little hand, and the soft, dimpled cheek!
Sleep, darling. (I'll have his clothes shortened this week.
How tightly he's holding my dress; I'm afraid
He'll wake when I move. There! his bed isn't made!)
Sleep, my own darling,
By, baby, by;
In thy soft cradle
Peacefully lie.
(He's settled at last. But I can't leave him so,
Though I ought to be going this instant, I know.
There's everything standing and waiting down-stairs.
Ah me, but a mother is cumbered with cares!)
_Mary Mapes Dodge._
LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE
Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay,
An' wash the cups and saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away,
An' shoo the chickens off the porch, an' dust the hearth, an' sweep,
An' make the fire, an' bake the bread, an' earn her board-an'-keep;
An' all us other children, when the supper things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun
A-list'nin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about,
An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!
Onc't there was a little boy wouldn't say his pray'rs--
An' when he went to bed at night, away up stairs,
His mammy heerd him holler, an' his daddy heerd him bawl,
An' when they turn't the kivvers down, he wasn't there at all!
An' they seeked him in the rafter-room, an' cubby-hole, an' press,
An' seeked him up the chimbly-flue, an' ever'wheres, I guess;
But all they ever found was thist his pants an' roundabout!
An' the Gobble-uns'll git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!
An' one time a little girl 'ud allus laugh an' grin,
An' make fun of ever' one, an' all her blood-an'-kin;
An' onc't when they was "company," an' ole folks was there,
She mocked 'em an' shocked 'em, an' said she didn't care!
An' thist as she kicked her heels, an' turn't to run an' hide,
They was two great big Black Things a-standin' by her side,
An' they snatched her through the ceilin' 'fore she knowed what she's
about!
An' the Gobble-uns'll git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!
An' little Orphant Annie says, when the blaze is blue,
An' the lampwick sputters, an' the wind goes woo-oo!
An' you hear the crickets quit, an' the moon is gray,
An' the lightnin'-bugs in dew is all squenched away,--
You better mind yer parents, and yer teachers fond and dear,
An' churish them 'at loves you, an' dry the orphant's tear,
An' he'p the pore an' needy ones 'at clusters all about,
Er the Gobble-uns'll git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!
_James Whitcomb Riley._
A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap,
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave a luster of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
"Now, _Dasher_! now, _Dancer_! now, _Prancer_ and _Vixen_!
On, _Comet_! on, _Cupid_! on, _Dunder_ and _Blitzen_!
To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall!
Now, dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
So up to the housetop the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas, too.
And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes--how they twinkled!--his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a round little belly,
That shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle;
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"_Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night_!"
_Clement Clarke Moore._
A NURSERY LEGEND
Oh! listen, little children, to a proper little song
Of a naughty little urchin who was always doing wrong:
He disobey'd his mammy, and he disobey'd his dad,
And he disobey'd his uncle, which was very near as bad.
He wouldn't learn to cipher, and he wouldn't learn to write,
But he _would_ tear up his copy-books to fabricate a kite;
And he used his slate and pencil in so barbarous a way,
That the grinders of his governess got looser ev'ry day.
At last he grew so obstinate that no one could contrive
To cure him of a theory that two and two made five
And, when they taught him how to spell, he show'd his wicked whims
By mutilating Pinnock and mislaying Watts's Hymns.
Instead of all such pretty books, (which _must_ improve the mind,)
He cultivated volumes of a most improper kind;
Directories and almanacks he studied on the sly,
And gloated over Bradshaw's Guide when nobody was by.
From such a course of reading you can easily divine
The condition of his morals at the age of eight or nine.
His tone of conversation kept becoming worse and worse,
Till it scandalised his governess and horrified his nurse.
He quoted bits of Bradshaw that were quite unfit to hear,
And recited from the Almanack, no matter who was near:
He talked of Reigate Junction and of trains both up and down,
And referr'd to men who call'd themselves Jones, Robinson, and Brown.
But when this naughty boy grew up he found the proverb true,
That Fate one day makes people pay for all the wrong they do.
He was cheated out of money by a man whose name was Brown,
And got crippled in a railway smash while coming up to town.
So, little boys and little girls, take warning while you can,
And profit by the history of this unhappy man.
Read Dr. Watts and Pinnock, dears; and when you learn to spell,
Shun Railway Guides, Directories, and Almanacks as well!
_Henry S. Leigh._
A LITTLE GOOSE
The chill November day was done,
The working world home faring;
The wind came roaring through the streets
And set the gas-lights flaring;
And hopelessly and aimlessly
The scared old leaves were flying;
When, mingled with the sighing wind,
I heard a small voice crying.
And shivering on the corner stood
A child of four, or over;
No cloak or hat her small, soft arms,
And wind blown curls to cover.
Her dimpled face was stained with tears;
Her round blue eyes ran over;
She cherished in her wee, cold hand,
A bunch of faded clover.
And one hand round her treasure while
She slipped in mine the other:
Half scared, half confidential, said,
"Oh! please, I want my mother!"
"Tell me your street and number, pet:
Don't cry, I'll take you to it."
Sobbing she answered, "I forget:
The organ made me do it.
"He came and played at Milly's steps,
The monkey took the money;
And so I followed down the street,
The monkey was so funny.
I've walked about a hundred hours,
From one street to another:
The monkey's gone, I've spoiled my flowers,
Oh! please, I want my mother."
"But what's your mother's name? and what
The street? Now think a minute."
"My mother's name is mamma dear--
The street--I can't begin it."
"But what is strange about the house,
Or new--not like the others?"
"I guess you mean my trundle-bed,
Mine and my little brother's.
"Oh dear! I ought to be at home
To help him say his prayers,--
He's such a baby he forgets;
And we are both such players;--
And there's a bar to keep us both
From pitching on each other,
For Harry rolls when he's asleep:
Oh dear! I want my mother."
The sky grew stormy; people passed
All muffled, homeward faring:
"You'll have to spend the night with me,"
I said at last, despairing,
I tied a kerchief round her neck--
"What ribbon's this, my blossom?"
"Why don't you know!" she smiling, said,
And drew it from her bosom.
A card with number, street, and name;
My eyes astonished met it;
"For," said the little one, "you see
I might sometimes forget it:
And so I wear a little thing
That tells you all about it;
For mother says she's very sure
I should get lost without it."
_Eliza Sproat Turner._
LEEDLE YAWCOB STRAUSS
I haf von funny leedle poy,
Vot comes schust to mine knee;
Der queerest schap, der createst rogue,
As efer you dit see.
He runs, und schumps, und schmashes dings
In all barts off der house:
But vot off dot? He vas mine son,
Mine leedle Yawcob Strauss.
He get der measles und der mumbs
And eferyding dot's oudt;
He sbills mine glass off lager bier,
Poots schnuff indo mine kraut.
He fills mine pipe mit Limburg cheese--
Dot vas der roughest chouse;
I'd dake dot vrom no oder poy
But leedle Yawcob Strauss.
He dakes der milk-ban for a dhrum,
Und cuts mine cane in dwo,
To make der schticks to beat it mit--
Mine cracious, dot vas drue!
I dinks mine hed vas schplit abart,
He kicks oup sooch a touse:
But nefer mind; der poys vas few
Like dot young Yawcob Strauss.
He asks me questions sooch as dese:
Who baints mine nose so red?
Who vas it cuts dot schmoodth blace oudt
Vrom der hair ubon mine hed?
Und vere dere plaze goes vrom her lamp
Vene'er der glim I douse.
How gan I all dose dings eggsblain
To dot schmall Yawcob Strauss?
I somedimes dink I schall go vild
Mit sooch a grazy poy,
Und vish vonce more I gould haf rest,
Und beaceful dimes enshoy;
But ven he vas aschleep in ped
So guiet as a mouse,
I prays der Lord, "Dake anyding,
But leaf dot Yawcob Strauss."
_Charles Follen Adams._
A PARENTAL ODE TO MY SON, AGED THREE YEARS AND FIVE MONTHS
Thou happy, happy elf!
(But stop,--first let me kiss away that tear)--
Thou tiny image of myself!
(My love, he's poking peas into his ear!)
Thou merry, laughing sprite!
With spirits feather-light,
Untouched by sorrow, and unsoiled by sin--
(Good Heavens! the child is swallowing a pin!)
Thou little tricksy Puck!
With antic toys so funnily bestuck,
Light as the singing bird that wings the air--
(The door! the door! he'll tumble down the stair!)
Thou darling of thy sire!
(Why, Jane, he'll set his pinafore afire!)
Thou imp of mirth and joy!
In love's dear chain, so strong and bright a link,
Thou idol of thy parents--(Drat the boy!
There goes my ink!)
Thou cherub--but of earth;
Fit playfellow for Fays, by moonlight pale,
In harmless sport and mirth,
(That dog will bite him if he pulls its tail!)
Thou human humming-bee, extracting honey
From every blossom in the world that blows,
Singing in youth's elysium ever sunny,
(Another tumble!--that's his precious nose!)
Thy father's pride and hope!
(He'll break the mirror with that skipping-rope!)
With pure heart newly stamped from Nature's mint--
(Where _did_ he learn that squint?)
Thou young domestic dove!
(He'll have that jug off with another shove!)
Dear nursling of the Hymeneal nest!
(Are those torn clothes his best?)
Little epitome of man!
(He'll climb upon the table, that's his plan!)
Touched with the beauteous tints of dawning life
(He's got a knife!)
Thou enviable being!
No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing,
Play on, play on,
My elfin John!
Toss the light ball--bestride the stick--
(I knew so many cakes would make him sick!)
With fancies, buoyant as the thistle-down,
Prompting the face grotesque, and antic brisk,
With many a lamb-like frisk,
(He's got the scissors, snipping at your gown!)
Thou pretty opening rose!
(Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nose!)
Balmy and breathing music like the South,
(He really brings my heart into my mouth!)
Fresh as the morn, and brilliant as its star,--
(I wish that window had an iron bar!)
Bold as the hawk, yet gentle as the dove,--
(I'll tell you what, my love,
I cannot write unless he's sent above!)
_Thomas Hood._
LITTLE MAMMA
Why is it the children don't love me
As they do Mamma?
That they put her ever above me--
"Little Mamma?"
I'm sure I do all that I can do,
What more can a rather big man do,
Who can't be Mamma--
Little Mamma?
Any game that the tyrants suggest,
"Logomachy,"--which I detest,--
Doll-babies, hop-scotch, or baseball,
I'm always on hand at the call.
When Noah and the others embark,
I'm the elephant saved in the ark.
I creep, and I climb, and I crawl--
By turns am the animals all.
For the show on the stair
I'm always the bear,
Chimpanzee, camel, or kangaroo.
It is never, "Mamma,--
_Little_ Mamma,--
Won't _you_?"
My umbrella's the pony, if any--
None ride on Mamma's parasol:
I'm supposed to have always the penny
For bonbons, and beggars, and all.
My room is the one where they clatter--
Am I reading, or writing, what matter!
My knee is the one for a trot,
My foot is the stirrup for Dot.
If his fractions get into a snarl
Who straightens the tangles for Karl?
Who bounds Massachusetts and Maine,
And tries to bound flimsy old Spain?
Why,
It is _I_,
Papa,--
Not Little Mamma!
That the youngsters are ingrates don't say.
I think they love me--in a way--
As one does the old clock on the stair,--
Any curious, cumbrous affair
That one's used to having about,
And would feel rather lonely without.
I think that they love me, I say,
In a sort of a tolerant way;
But it's plain that Papa
Isn't Little Mamma.
Thus when twilight comes stealing anear,
When things in the firelight look queer;
And shadows the playroom enwrap,
They never climb into my lap
And toy with _my_ head, smooth and bare,
As they do with Mamma's shining hair;
Nor feel round my throat and my chin
For dimples to put fingers in;
Nor lock my neck in a loving vise,
And say they're "mousies"--that's mice--
And will nibble my ears,
Will nibble and bite
With their little mice-teeth, so sharp and so white,
If I do not kiss them this very minute--
Don't-wait-a-bit-but-at-once-begin-it--
Dear little Papa!
That's what they say and do to Mamma.
If, mildly hinting, I quietly say that
Kissing's a game that more can play at,
They turn up at once those innocent eyes,
And I suddenly learn to my great surprise
That my face has "prickles"--
My moustache tickles.
If, storming their camp, I seize a pert shaver,
And take as a right what was asked as a favor,
It is, "Oh, Papa,
How horrid you are--
You taste exactly like a cigar!"
But though the rebels protest and pout,
And make a pretence of driving me out,
I hold, after all, the main redoubt,--
Not by force of arms nor the force of will,
But the power of love, which is mightier still.
And very deep in their hearts, I know,
Under the saucy and petulant "Oh,"
The doubtful "Yes," or the naughty "No,"
They love Papa.
And down in the heart that no one sees,
Where I hold my feasts and my jubilees,
I know that I would not abate one jot
Of the love that is held by my little Dot
Or my great big boy for their little Mamma,
Though out in the cold it crowded Papa.
I would not abate it the tiniest whit,
And I am not jealous the least little bit;
For I'll tell you a secret: Come, my dears,
And I'll whisper it--right-into-your-ears--
I, too, love Mamma,
Little Mamma!
_Charles Henry Webb._
THE COMICAL GIRL
There was a child, as I have been told,
Who when she was young didn't look very old.
Another thing, too, some people have said,
At the top of her body there grew out a head;
And what perhaps might make some people stare
Her little bald pate was all covered with hair.
Another strange thing which made gossipers talk,
Was that she often attempted to walk.
And then, do you know, she occasioned much fun
By moving so fast as sometimes to run.
Nay, indeed, I have heard that some people say
She often would smile and often would play.
And what is a fact, though it seems very odd,
She had monstrous dislike to the feel of a rod.
This strange little child sometimes hungry would be
And then she delighted her victuals to see.
Even drink she would swallow, and though strange it appears
Whenever she listened it was with her ears.
With her eyes she could see, and strange to relate
Her peepers were placed in front of her pate.
There, too, was her mouth and also her nose,
And on her two feet were placed her ten toes.
Her teeth, I've been told, were fixed in her gums,
And beside having fingers she also had thumbs.
A droll child she therefore most surely must be,
For not being blind she was able to see.
One circumstance more had slipped from my mind
Which is when not cross she always was kind.
And, strangest of any that yet I have said,
She every night went to sleep on her bed.
And, what may occasion you no small surprise,
When napping, she always shut close up her eyes.
_M. Pelham._
BUNCHES OF GRAPES
"Bunches of grapes," says Timothy,
"Pomegrantes pink," says Elaine;
"A junket of cream and a cranberry tart
For me," says Jane.
"Love-in-a-mist," says Timothy,
"Primroses pale," says Elaine;
"A nosegay of pinks and mignonette
For me," says Jane.
"Chariots of gold," says Timothy,
"Silvery wings," says Elaine;
"A bumpety ride in a waggon of hay
For me," says Jane.
_Walter Ramal._
XVI
IMMORTAL STANZAS
THE PURPLE COW
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
_Gelett Burgess._
THE YOUNG LADY OF NIGER
There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a Tiger;
They came back from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the Tiger.
_Unknown._
THE LAUGHING WILLOW
To see the Kaiser's epitaph
Would make a weeping willow laugh.
_Oliver Herford._
SAID OPIE READ
Said Opie Read to E. P. Roe,
"How do you like Gaboriau?"
"I like him very much indeed!"
Said E. P. Roe to Opie Read.
_Julian Street_ and _James Montgomery Flagg._
MANILA
Oh, dewy was the morning, upon the first of May,
And Dewey was the admiral, down in Manila Bay;
And dewy were the Regent's eyes, them royal orbs of blue,
And do we feel discouraged? We do not think we do!
_Eugene F. Ware._
ON THE ARISTOCRACY OF HARVARD
I come from good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod;
Where the Cabots speak only to Lowells,
And the Lowells speak only to God!
_Dr. Samuel G. Bushnell._
ON THE DEMOCRACY OF YALE
Here's to the town of New Haven,
The home of the truth and the light;
Where God speaks to Jones in the very same tones,
That he uses with Hadley and Dwight!
_Dean Jones._
THE HERRING
"The Herring he loves the merry moonlight
And the Mackerel loves the wind,
But the Oyster loves the dredging song
For he comes of a gentler kind."
_Sir Walter Scott._
IF THE MAN
If the man who turnips cries,
Cry not when his father dies,
'Tis a proof that he had rather
Have a turnip than his father.
_Samuel Johnson._
THE KILKENNY CATS
There wanst was two cats of Kilkenny,
Each thought there was one cat too many,
So they quarrell'd and fit,
They scratch'd and they bit,
Till, barrin' their nails,
And the tips of their tails,
Instead of two cats, there warnt any.
_Unknown._
POOR DEAR GRANDPAPA
What is the matter with Grandpapa?
What can the matter be?
He's broken his leg in trying to spell
Tommy without a T.
_D'Arcy W. Thompson._
MORE WALKS
Whene'er I take my walks abroad,
How many rich I see;
There's A. and B. and C. and D.
All better off than me!
_Richard Harris Barham._
INDIFFERENCE
The cat is in the parlour,
The dog is in the lake;
The cow is in the hammock,--
What difference does it make?
MADAME SANS SOUCI
"Bon jour, Madame Sans Souci;
Combien coûtent ces soucis ci?"
"Six sous." "Six sous ces soucis ci!
C'est trop cher, Madame Sans Souci!"
A RIDDLE
The man in the wilderness asked of me
How many strawberries grew in the sea.
I answered him as I thought good,
As many as red herrings grow in the wood.
IF
If all the land were apple-pie,
And all the sea were ink;
And all the trees were bread and cheese,
What should we do for drink?
THE END
INDICES
INDEX OF AUTHORS
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|Authors Unknown|
All's Well That Ends Well 264
Amazing Facts About Food 91
Ambiguous Lines 804
Any One Will Do 169
As To The Weather 107
Ballad of Bedlam, A 886
Ballad of High Endeavor, A 484
Bellagcholly Days 747
Bells, The 816
Cameronian Cat, The 917
Careful Penman, The 810
Catalectic Monody, A 833
Categorical Courtship 207
Chemist to His Love, A 206
Christmas Chimes 284
Clown's Courtship, The 217
Conjugal Conundrum, A 371
Cosmic Egg, The 771
Cosmopolitan Woman, A 167
Counsel to Those That Eat 932
Country Summer Pastoral, A 883
Cupid's Darts 67
Darwinian Ballad 913
Dirge 787
Father William 531
Fin de Siècle 357
Fragment, A 450
Future of the Classics, The 826
Gillian 511
Hom[oe]opathic Soup 76
Hyder Iddle 879
Idyll of Phatte and Leene, An 406
If 951
Imagiste Love Lines 383
Imaginative Crisis, The 451
Imitations of Walt Whitman 434
Indifference 950
Invitation to the Zoological Gardens, An 822
Israfiddlestrings 472
Justice to Scotland 384
Kilkenny Cats, The 950
Kindly Advice 890
King John and the Abbot 554
King Arthur 879
Learned Negro, The 274
Life 783
Lines 456
Lines by an Old Fogy 882
Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon 830
Lines Written After a Battle 456
Little Star, The 476
Logic 809
Logical English 809
Lost Spectacles, The 287
Love's Moods and Tenses 812
Man of Words, A 790
Man's Place in Nature 89
Maudle-in-Ballad, A 510
Midsummer Madness 377
Minguillo's Kiss 122
Mme. Sans Souci 951
Modern Hiawatha, The 482
Mr. Finney's Turnip 847
My Dream 853
My Foe 529
Naughty Darkey Boy, The 927
Nirvana 900
North, East, South and West 403
Nursery Rhymes à la Mode 509
Nursery Song in Pidgin English 530
Ocean Wanderer, The 879
Ode to a Bobtailed Cat 736
Odv 788
On a Deaf Housekeeper 76
Origin of Ireland, The 106
Original Lamb, The 477
Panegyric on the Ladies 803
Questions with Answers 810
Rev. Gabe Tucker's Remarks 312
Riddle, A 951
Rural Raptures 450
Sainte Margérie 477
Siege of Belgrade, The 813
Similes 791
Song of the Springtide 527
Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House 851
Stanzas to Pale Ale 732
Strike Among the Poets, A 785
Susan Simpson 774
There was a Little Girl 926
Thingumbob, The 882
Three Children 843
Three Jovial Huntsmen 878
'Tis Midnight 843
'Tis Sweet to Roam 878
To an Importunate Host 534
To Be or Not To Be 891
Transcendentalism 92
Trust in Women 276
Two Fishers 188
Ultimate Joy, The 32
Unfortunate Miss-Bailey 702
Village Choir, The 528
Whango Tree, The 842
What is a Woman Like? 118
Whenceness of the Which 476
Whistler, The 133
Wonders of Nature 882
Wordsworthian Reminiscence 470
Young Lady of Niger, The 948
Young Lochinvar 381
|Adams, Charles Follen|
Leedle Yawcob Strauss 940
|Adams, Franklin P.|
Erring in Company 55
Popular Ballad: "Never Forget Your Parents" 394
To a Thesaurus 825
Translated Way 427
|Addison, Joseph|
Song 751
To a Capricious Friend 368
|Aldrich, Dr. Henry|
Reasons for Drinking 364
|Anstey, F.|
Select Passages from a Coming Poet 410
|Aristophanes|
Chorus of Women 126
|Ashby-Sterry, J.|
Kindness to Animals 891
Pet's Punishment 184
|Atwell, Roy|
Some Little Bug 77
|Aytoun, William E.|
Bitter Bit, The 451
Broken Pitcher, The 196
Comfort in Affliction 453
Husband's Petition, The 454
Lay of the Lover's Friend, The 88
|Aytoun, William E.|, _and_ |Martin|
Lay of the Love Lorn, The 537
|Bailey, Philip James|
Great Black Crow, The 908
|Ballard, Harlan Hoge|
In the Catacombs 52
|Bangs, John Kendrick|
"Mona Lisa" 95
|Barham, Richard Harris| [|Thomas Ingoldsby|]
Confession, The 443
Forlorn One, The 449
Jackdaw of Rheims, The 586
Knight and the Lady, The 590
Misadventures at Margate 558
More Walks 950
|Bayly, Thomas Haynes|
Why Don't the Men Propose? 130
|Bede, Cuthbert|
In Memoriam 463
|Beers, Henry A.|
Fish Story, A 916
|Bellaw, A. W.|
Conjugal Conjugations 810
Old Line Fence, The 760
|Belloc, Hilaire|
Frog, The 907
Llama, The 906
Microbe, The 907
Viper, The 906
Yak, The 906
|Bennett, John|
To Marie 852
|Birdseye, George|
Paradise 281
|Blake, Rodney|
Hoch! der Kaiser 291
|Blake, William|
Cupid 56
Little Vagabond, The 269
|Blanchard, Laman|
Art of Book-Keeping, The 818
False Love and True Logic 183
Ode to a Human Heart 784
Whatever is, is Right 786
|Bridges, Madeline|
Third Proposition, The 345
|Bridgman, L. J.|
On Knowing When to Stop 312
|Browne, Charles Farrar| [|Artemus Ward|]
Uncle Simon and Uncle Jim 849
|Brownell, Henry Howard|
Lawyer's Invocation to Spring, The 402
|Browning, Robert|
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The 603
Pope and the Net, The 286
Youth and Art 339
|Bunner, H. C.|
Behold the Deeds 397
Home Sweet Home with Variations 498
Shake, Mulleary and Go-Ethe 40
Way to Arcady, The 201
|Burdette, Robert J.|
Orphan Born 903
Romance of the Carpet, The 674
"Soldier, Rest!" 374
"Songs without Words" 413
What Will We Do? 311
|Burgess, Gelett|
Dighton is Engaged 647
Extracts from the Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne 512
Invisible Bridge, The 855
Kitty Wants to Write 646
Lazy Roof, The 855
My Feet 855
Purple Cow, The 948
Villanelle of Things Amusing 73
|Burnand, F. C.|
Fisherman's Chant, The 81
Oh, My Geraldine 180
True to Poll 275
|Burns, Robert|
Address to the Toothache 724
Holy Willie's Prayer 272
John Barleycorn 730
Tam O'Shanter 623
|Bushnell, Dr. Samuel G.|
On the Aristocracy of Harvard 949
|Butler, Ellis Parker|
Secret Combination, The 209
|Butler, Samuel|
Hypocrisy 365
Religion of Hudibras, The 271
Smatterers 365
|Butler, William Allen|
Nothing to Wear 148
|Byron, John|
Three Black Crows 254
Which is Which 368
|Byron, Lord|
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 80
|Calverley, Charles Stuart|
Ballad 467
Cock and the Bull, The 464
Companions 63
Disaster 469
First Love 116
Lovers and a Reflection 372
Ode to Tobacco 732
Schoolmaster, The 64
|Cannan, Edward|
Unexpected Fact, An 844
|Canning, George|
Elderly Gentlemen, The 665
Knife-grinder, The 249
Song 84
|Carey, Henry|
Sally in Our Alley 182
|Carleton, Will|
New Church Organ, The 162
|Carroll, Lewis|
Father William 485
Humpty Dumpty's Recitation 872
Hunting of the Snark, The 676
Jabberwocky 869
Some Hallucinations 874
Walrus and the Carpenter, The 896
Ways and Means 870
|Carryl, Charles E.|
Post Captain, The 615
Robinson Crusoe's Story 617
|Carryl, Guy Wetmore|
Ballad, A 426
Girl was too Reckless of Grammar, A 395
|Cary, Phoebe|
Ballad of the Canal 492
"The Day is Done" 490
Jacob 491
John Thomson's Daughter 494
There's a Bower of Bean-vines 493
Reuben 493
When Lovely Woman 494
Wife, The 494
|Cayley, George John|
Epitaph, An 366
|Chambers, Robert W.|
Officer Brady 232
Recruit, The 230
|Chaucer, Geoffrey|
To My Empty Purse 58
|Cheney, John Vance|
Kitchen Clock, The 220
|Chesterfield, Lord|
On a Full-length Portrait of Beau Marsh 369
|Chesterton, G. K.|
Ballade of an Anti-Puritan, A 337
Ballade of Suicide, A 224
|Cholmondeley-Pennell, H.|
How the Daughters Come Down At Dunoon 533
Lay of the Deserted Influenzaed 746
Our Traveller 445
|Clarke, H. E.|
Lady Mine 221
|Clarke, Lewis Gaylord|
Flamingo, The 894
|Claudius, Matthew|
Hen, The 892
|Cleveland|
On Scotland 369
|Clough, Arthur Hugh|
Latest Decalogue, The 261
|Coleridge, Samuel Taylor|
Cologne 363
Eternal Poem, An 364
Giles's Hope 363
House that Jack Built, The 407
Job 364
On a Bad Singer 364
Rhymester, A 363
|Collins, Mortimer|
Ad Chloen, M.A. 184
Chloe, M.A. 185
If 436
Martial in London 316
My Aunt's Spectre 600
Positivists, The 315
Salad 436
Sky-Making 314
|Cone, Helen Gray|
Ballad of Cassandra Brown, The 345
|Congreve, William|
Buxom Joan 179
|Cook, Rev. Joseph|
Boston Nursery Rhymes 324
|Corbet, Bishop|
Like to the Thundering Tone 848
|Cotton, Charles|
Joys of Marriage, The 344
|Cowley, Abraham|
Chronicle: A Ballad, The 176
|Cowper, William|
Colubriad, The 909
Diverting History of John Gilpin, The 564
Pairing-Time Anticipated 212
Report of an Adjudged Case 82
Retired Cat, The 910
|Crane, Stephen|
Man, The 248
|Croffut, William Augustus|
Dirge, A 737
|Cunningham, Allan|
John Grumlie 326
|Daniell, Edith|
Inspect Us 471
|Davison, Francis|
Are Women Fair? 189
|Day, Holman F.|
Grampy Sings a Song 670
|Deane, Anthony C.|
Here is the Tale 421
Imitation 375
Rural Bliss 97
|DeBurgh, H. J.|
Half Hours with the Classics 779
|Denison, J. P.|
Wing Tee Wee 139
|Dibdin, Charles|
Nongtongpaw 808
|Dillon, Viscount|
Donnybrook Jig, The 700
|Dobson, Austin|
Dialogue From Plato, A 142
Dora Versus Rose 144
Jocosa Lyra 824
Rondeau, The 782
Tu Quoque 146
|Dodge, H. C.|
If 268
Splendid Fellow, A 267
|Dodge, Mary Mapes|
Home and Mother 932
Life in Laconics 311
Over the Way 125
Zealless Xylographer, The 759
|Dole, Nathan Haskell|
Our Native Birds 53
|Donne, John|
Song 330
|Drummond, William Henry|
Wreck of the "Julie Plante" 662
|Dreyden, John|
Epitaph Intended for His Wife 368
|Edwards, John R.|
War: A-Z, The 829
|Emerson, Ralph Waldo|
Fable 290
|Fanshawe, Catherine M.|
Enigma on the Letter H 762
Imitation of Wordsworth, An 535
|Farrow, G. E.|
Converted Cannibals, The 683
Retired Pork-Butcher and the Spook, The 685
|Field, Eugene|
Dinkey Bird, The 929
Dutch Lullaby 928
Little Peach, The 931
Truth About Horace, The 50
|Fields, James Thomas|
Alarmed Skipper, The 664
Owl-Critic, The 309
Turtle and the Flamingo, The 923
|Fink, William W.|
Larrie O'Dee 165
|Flagg, James Montgomery| [_with_ |Julian Street|]
Said Opie Reed 948
|Foley, J. W.|
Nemesis 94
Scientific Proof 880
|Forrester, Alfred A.| [|Alfred Croquill|]
To My Nose 832
|Foss, Sam Walter|
Husband and Heather 160
Ideal Husband to His Wife, The 246
Meeting of the Clabberhuses, The 244
A Philosopher 242
Prayer of Cyrus Brown, The 54
Then Ag'in 357
|Gallienne, Richard Le|
Melton Mowbray Pork-Pie, A 472
|Gay, John|
New Song, A 754
|Gilbert, Paul T.|
Triolet 120
|Gilbert, W. S.|
Etiquette 256
Ferdinando and Elvira 635
Gentle Alice Brown 639
Mighty Must, The 376
Played-Out Humorist, The 25
Practical Joker, The 26
Sing for the Garish Eye 875
Sir Guy the Crusader 644
Story of Prince Agib, The 641
To Phoebe 28
To the Terrestrial Globe 256
Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" 632
|Gillinan, S. W.|
Finnigin to Flannigan 225
|Godley, A. D.|
After Horace 320
Pensées de Noël 336
|Goldsmith, Oliver|
Elegy, An 740
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An 764
Parson Gray 741
|Googe, Barnaby|
Out of Sight, Out of Mind 807
|Graves, Alfred Perceval|
Father O'Flynn 719
Ould Doctor Macke 717
|Gray, Thomas|
On the Death of a Favorite Cat 557
|Greene, Albert Gorton|
Old Grimes 766
|Grissom, Arthur|
Ballade of Forgotten Loves 223
|Guiterman, Arthur|
Elegy 445
Legend of the First Cam-u-el, The 888
Mavrone 378
Mexican Serenade 902
Sketch from the Life, A 121
Strictly Germ Proof 87
|Halpine, Charles Graham|
Feminine Arithmetic 191
|Harrington, Sir John|
Of a Certain Man 282
Of a Precise Tailor 322
|Harte, Bret|
Ballad of the Emeu, The 921
"Jim" 652
Plain Language from Truthful James 648
Society Upon the Stanislaus, The 650
To the Pliocene Skull 46
Willows, The 423
|Hartswick, F. G.|
Somewhere-in-Europe-Wodky 482
|Hastings, Lady T.|
"Exactly So" 61
|Hay, John|
Distichs 247
Enchanted Shirt, The 658
Good and Bad Luck 334
Jim Bludso 661
Little Breeches 657
|Hazzard, John Edward|
Ain't It Awful, Mabel? 137
|Heber, Reginald|
Sympathy 270
|Henley, William Ernest|
Culture in the Slums 400
Her Little Feet 59
Triolet, The 782
Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves 399
|Herford, Oliver|
Catfish, The 900
Cloud, The 134
Laughing Willow, The 948
Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream 30
Phyllis Lee 139
War Relief 901
|Herrick, Robert|
Five Wives 772
No Fault in Women 166
Ternary of Littles Upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent
to a Lady, A 806
|Hill, Marion|
Lovelilts 824
|Hogg, James|
Love is Like a Dizziness 218
|Holmes, Oliver Wendell|
[OE]stivation 849
Ballad of the Oysterman, The 583
Cacoethes Scribendi 238
Contentment 238
The Deacon's Masterpiece 580
Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents, A 36
Height of the Ridiculous, The 38
Ode for a Social Meeting 833
Our Hymn 374
To the Portrait of "A Gentleman" 236
|Hood, Thomas|
Bachelor's Dream, The 342
Ben Bluff 619
Death's Ramble 801
Faithless Nellie Gray 797
Faithless Sally Brown 792
No! 792
Nocturnal Sketch, A 823
Parental Ode to my Son Aged Three Years and Five
Months, A 941
Sally Simpkin's Lament 800
Tim Turpin 795
To Minerva 49
|Hood, Thomas,| _Jr._
In Memoriam Technicam 413
Takings 817
Wedding, The 412
|Hook, Theodore|
Cautionary Verses 828
|Hovey, Richard|
Barney McGee 721
|Hunt, Leigh|
Jovial Priest's Confession, The 834
Nun, The 206
|Huntley, Stanley|
Annabel Lee 497
|Ingoldsby, Thomas| [_See_ |Richard Harris Barham|]
|Irwin, Wallace|
Blow Me Eyes! 115
Constant Cannibal Maiden, The 194
Grain of Salt, A 241
|Jenks, Tudor|
Old Bachelor, An 98
|Johnson, Burges|
Why Doth a Pussy Cat? 895
|Johnson, Hilda|
Quest of the Purple Cow, The 100
|Johnson, Rossiter|
Ninety-nine in the Shade 781
|Johnson, Samuel|
If the Man 949
|Johnston, William|
On the Downtown Side of an Uptown Street 79
|Johnstone, Henry|
Fastidious Serpent, The 887
|Jones, Dean|
On the Democracy of Yale 949
|Jonson, Ben|
Answer to Master Wither's Song, "Shall I, Wasting
in Despair?" 526
Cupid 211
To Doctor Empiric 365
|Keats, John|
Portrait, A 496
|Kerr, Orpheus| [_See_ |Robert H. Newell|]
|King, Ben|
How Often 489
If I Should Die To-night 489
Pessimist, The 358
|Kingsley, Charles|
Oubit, The 330
|Kipling, Rudyard|
Commonplaces 427
Divided Destinies 904
Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink 226
|Knight, Henry Coggswell|
Lunar Stanzas 841
|Lamb, Charles|
Farewell to Tobacco, A 726
Nonsense Verses 848
|Lampton, W. J.|
New Persion, The 90
|Landor, Walter Savage|
Honey-moon, The 366
Gifts Returned 198
|Lang, Andrew|
Ballad of the Primitive Jest 72
Double Ballad of Primitive Man 331
|Langbridge, Frederick|
Quite By Chance 205
|Lanigan, George Thomas|
Ahkoond of Swat, The 710
Dirge of the Moolla of Kotal 712
|Lear, Edward|
Ahkoond of Swat, The 708
Jumbles, The 862
New Vestments, The 866
Owl and the Pussy Cat, The 901
Pobble Who Has No Toes, The 865
Two Old Bachelors, The 868
Yongby-Bonghy-Bo, The 859
|Leigh, Henry S.|
Cossimbazar 843
Maud 188
My Love and My Heart 204
Nursery Legend, A 937
Only Seven 543
Romanunt of Humpty Dumpty, The 411
'Twas Ever Thus 544
Twins, The 108
|Leland, Charles Godfrey|
Ballad of Charity, A 613
Ballad of Hans Breitmann 669
Hans Breitmann's Party 668
Legend of Heinz Von Stein, The 49
|Lemke, E.|
Rhyme of Musicians, A 772
|Lemon, Mark|
How to Make a Man of Consequence 280
|Lessing|
Mendax 369
To a Slow Walker and Quick Eater 369
|Lever, Charles|
Pope, The 70
Widow Malone, The 126
|Lindesay, Sir David|
Carman's Account of a Law Suit, A 807
|Locker-Lampson, Frederick|
Circumstance 444
Mrs. Smith 155
My Mistress's Boots 153
On a Sense of Humor 367
Some Ladies 367
Susan 157
Terrible Infant, A 156
|Loines, Russell Hilliard|
On a Magazine Sonnet 281
|Loomis, Charles Battell|
O-u-g-h 761
Propinquity Needed 51
Song of Sorrow, A 386
|Loring, Fred W.|
Fair Millinger, The 186
|Lovelace, Richard|
Song 241
|Lover, Samuel|
Birth of Saint Patrick, The 58
Father Malloy 307
How to Ask and Have 181
Lanty Leary 208
Paddy O'Rafther 571
Quaker's Meeting, The 576
Rory O'More; or, Good Omens 141
|Lowell, James Russell|
Candidate's Creed, The 294
Courtin', The 110
What Mr. Robinson Thinks 292
Without and Within 359
|Ludlow, Fitz Hugh|
Too Late 348
|Lummis, C. F.|
Poe-'em of Passion, A 532
|Lysaght, Edward|
Kitty of Coleraine 130
|Mackay, Charles|
Bachelor's Mono-Rhyme, A 817
Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical Public 339
|Mackintosh, Newton|
Lucy Lake 463
Optimism 445
Pessimism 338
|Macy, Arthur|
Rollicking Mastodon, The 853
|Maginn, William|
Irishman and the Lady, The 742
St. Patrick, of Ireland, My Dear! 101
|Marquis, Don|
For I Am Sad 379
Lilies 379
|Marriott, John|
Devonshire Lane, The 266
|Masson, Tom|
Kiss, The 109
|Maxwell, J. C.|
Rigid Body Sings 483
|Mayhew, Horace|
Travesty of Miss Fanshawe's Enigma 763
|Ménage, Gilles|
Happy Man, The 814
|Merivale, Herman C.|
Darwinity 409
Town of Nice, The 438
|Miller, Alice Duer|
If They Meant All They Said 247
|Miller, Joaquin|
That Gentle Man From Boston Town 629
That Texan Cattle Man 288
William Brown of Oregon 653
|Milne, A. A.|
From a Full Heart 31
|Milton, John|
On the Oxford Carrier 780
|Mix, Parmenas|
Accepted and Will Appear 268
He Came to Pay 447
|Moore, Augustus M.|
Ballade of Ballade-Mongers, A 441
|Moore, Clement Clarke|
Visit from St. Nicholas, A 935
|Moore, Thomas|
If you Have Seen 444
Lying 86
Of All the Men 370
On Taking a Wife 367
Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party 367
What's My Thought Like? 370
|Morgan, Bessie|
'Späcially Jim 129
|Morris, Captain C.|
Contrast, The 265
|Morris, George Pope|
Retort, The 174
|Motteux, Peter A.|
Rondelay, A 41
|Moxon, Frederick|
All at Sea 70
|Munkittrick, R. K.|
Unsatisfied Yearning 889
What's in a Name? 347
Winter Dusk 42
|Nack, James|
Here She Goes and There She Goes 572
|Nairne, Lady|
The Laird o' Cockpen 703
|Newell, Robert H.| [|Orpheus C. Kerr|]
American Traveller, The 757
Editor's Wooing, The 389
Great Fight, A 697
Rejected "National Hymns," The 387
|O'Keefe, John|
Friar of Orders Gray, The 282
|O'Leary, Cormac|
Reflections on Cleopathera's Needle 105
|O'Reilly, John Boyle|
Constancy 137
|Osborn, Selleck|
Modest Wit, A 260
|Outram, George|
Annuity, The 350
On Hearing a Lady Praise a Certain Rev.
Doctor's Eyes 368
|Pain, Barry|
Bangkolidye 334
Martin Luther at Potsdam 404
Oh! Weary Mother 000
Poets at Tea, The 486
|Paine, Albert Bigelow|
Mis' Smith 119
Sary "Fixes Up" Things 192
|Palmer, E. H.|
Parterre, The 180
Shipwreck, The 876
|Palmer, William Pitt|
Smack in School, The 128
|Parke, Walter|
Foam and Fangs 544
His Mother-in-Law 75
My Madeline 773
Vague Story, A 74
Young Gazelle 918
|Paull, H. M.|
Eastern Question, An 598
|Peck, Samuel Minturn|
Bessie Brown, M.D. 120
Kiss in the Rain, A 123
|Pelham, M.|
Comical Girl, The 946
|Perry, Nora|
Love Knot, The 124
|Philips, Barclay|
Polka Lyric, A 832
|Philips, John|
Splendid Shilling, The 316
|Piggot, Mostyn T.|
Hundred Best Books, The 769
|Planché, J. R.|
Song 99
|Pontalais, Jehan Du|
Money 323
|Pope, Alexander|
Fool and the Poet, The 363
Ruling Passion, The 285
To a Blockhead 362
|Porson, Richard|
Dido 366
Nothing 786
|Porter, H. H.|
Forty Years After 210
|Praed, Winthrop Mackworth|
Belle of the Ball, The 171
Song of Impossibilities, A 327
|Pratt, Florence E.|
Courting in Kentucky 168
|Prior, Matthew|
Epitaph, An 765
Phillis's Age 332
Remedy Worse Than the Disease, A 365
Simile, A 262
|Proudfit, David Law|
Prehistoric Smith 83
|Prout, Father|
Malbrouck 28
Sabine Farmer's Serenade, The 214
|Ramal, Walter|
Bunches of Grapes 947
|Rands, W. B.|
Clean Clara 283
|Riley, James Whitcomb|
Little Orphant Annie 934
Lugubrious Whing-Whang, The 858
Man in the Moon, The 856
Old Man and Jim, The 678
Prior to Miss Belle's Appearance 925
Spirk Throll-Derisive 855
When the Frost Is on the Punkin 34
|Robertson, Harrison|
Kentucky Philosophy 325
|Robinson, Edwin Arlington|
Miniver Cheevy 229
Two Men 35
|Roche, James Jeffrey|
Boston Lullaby, A 240
Lament of the Scotch Irish Exile 385
Sailor's Yarn, A 680
V-A-S-E, The 227
|Rodger, Alexander|
Behave Yoursel' Before Folk 174
|Romaine, Harry|
Unattainable, The 141
|Ropes, Arthur Reed|
Lost Pleiad, The 161
|Russell, Irwin|
First Banjo, The 672
|Sancta-Clara, á Abraham|
St. Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes 251
|Saxe, John G.|
Comic Miseries 42
Early Rising 44
Echo 750
Rhyme of the Rail 748
Sonnet to a Clam 734
Woman's Will 362
|Sawyer, William|
"Caudal" Lecture, A 92
Cremation 534
Turvey Top 884
|Scollard, Clinton|
Ballade of the Golfer in Love 222
Noureddin, the Son of the Shah 199
|Scott, Sir Walter|
Herring, The 949
Nora's Vow 159
|Seaman, Owen|
At the Sign of the Cock 414
Of Baiting the Lion 893
Plea for Trigamy, A 68
Presto Furioso 417
To Julia in Shooting Togs 418
|Sheridan, Richard Brinsley|
Literary Lady, The 278
Wife, A 366
|Shults, George Francis|
Under the Mistletoe 196
|Sibley, Charles|
Plaidie, The 190
|Sidney, James A.|
Irish Schoolmaster, The 103
|Sims, George R.|
By Parcels Post 262
|Smith, Harry B.|
"I Didn't Like Him" 157
My Angeline 158
Same Old Story 360
|Smith, Horace|
Gouty Merchant and the Stranger, The 563
Jester Condemned to Death, The 378
|Smith, James|
Baby's Début, The 390
Surnames 804
|Smith, Sydney|
Salad 93
|Southey, Robert|
Battle of Blenheim, The 252
Cataract of Lodore, The 743
Devil's Walk on Earth, The 298
March to Moscow, The 775
Pig, The 914
Well of St. Keyne, The 584
|Stanton, Frank Libby|
How to Eat Watermelons 73
|Stephen, James Kenneth|
Cynicus to W. Shakespeare 362
Last Ride Together, The 431
Millennium, The 60
School 60
Senex to Matt. Prior 362
Thought, A 248
|Stevens, H. P.|
Why 214
|Street, Julian| [_with_ |James Montgomery Flagg|]
Said Opie Reed 948
|Stuart, Alaric Bertrand|
Jim-Jam King of the Jou-jous, The 851
|Stuart, Ruth McEnery|
Endless Song, The 768
Hen-Roost Man, The 247
|Suckling, Sir John|
Out Upon It 218
Wedding, A 704
|Swift, Dean|
Gentle Echo On Woman, A 752
Twelve Articles 279
|Swinburne, Algernon Charles|
Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The 458
Nephelidia 459
Up the Spout 460
|Taber, Harry Parsons|
Jaberwocky of Authors, The 437
|Taylor, Bayard|
Angelo Orders His Dinner 428
Camerados 430
Cantelope, The 393
Hiram Hover 113
Palabras Grandiosas 407
Promissory Note, The 429
|Taylor, Bert Leston|
Bygones 383
Farewell 419
Old Stuff 48
Post-Impressionism 235
|Tennyson, Lord|
Goose, The 611
Northern Farmer 354
|Thackeray, W. M.|
Ballad of Bouillabaisse, The 714
Crystal Palace, The 547
Little Billee 546
Old Fashioned Fun 33
Sorrows of Werther, The 140
Tragic Story, A 850
When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas 34
Willow-Tree, The 439
Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, The 552
|Thayer, Ernest Lawrence|
Casey at the Bat 601
|Thompson, D'Arcy W.|
Poor Dear Grandpapa 950
|Towne, Charles Hanson|
Messed Damozel, The 471
|Traill, H. D.|
After Dilettante Concetti 474
|Trowbridge, John Townsend|
Darius Green and His Flying-Machine 690
|Turner, Eliza Sproat|
Little Goose, A 938
|Turner, Godfrey|
Love Playnt, A 408
|Tytler, James|
I Hae Laid a Herring in Saut 216
|Untermeyer, Louis|
Owen Seaman 480
Robert Frost 479
|Vandyne, Mary E.|
The Bald-headed Tyrant 720
|Villon, François|
All Things Except Myself I Know 343
|Wake, William Basil|
Saying Not Meaning 666
|Ward, Artemus| [_See_ |Charles Farrar Browne|]
|Ware, Eugene Fitch|
He and She 109
Manila 949
Siege of Djklxprwbz, The 96
|Warren, George F.|
Lord Guy 191
|Waterman, Nixon|
If We Didn't Have to Eat 57
|Weatherly, Frederic E.|
Bird in the Hand, A 170
Thursday 313
Usual Way, The 200
|Webb, Charles Henry|
Little Mamma 943
|Wells, Carolyn|
Diversions of the Re-Echo Club 515
Limericks 835
Styx River Anthology 521
|West, Paul|
Cumberbunce, The 844
|Wesley, Rev. Samuel|
On Butler's Monument 370
|Witcher, Frances M.|
K. K.--Can't Calculate 353
Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles 195
|White, Harriet R.|
Uffia 877
|Whittier, John Greenleaf|
Skipper Ireson's Ride 688
|Wilcox, Ella Wheeler|
Pin, A 132
|Wildgoose, Oscuro|
More Impressions 509
|Wilkie, A. C.|
Old Song By New Singers, An 506
|Willis, N. P.|
Declaration, The 446
|Willson, Arabella|
Appeal for Are to the Sextant of the Old Brick
Meetinouse, A 66
|Wolcot, John|
Actor, The 287
Pilgrims and the Peas, The 621
Razor Seller, The 297
To a Fly 734
|Yates, Edmund|
All-Saints 280
|Ybarra, Thomas R.|
Lay of Ancient Rome 753
Little Swirl of Vers Libre, A 380
Ode to Work in Springtime 47
|Yriarte, Tomaso de|
Musical Ass, The 249
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
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A brace of sinners, for no good 621
A brow austere, a circumspective eye 280
A captain bold from Halifax who dwelt in country quarters 702
A cat I sing, of famous memory 833
A country curate visiting his flock 287
A district school, not far away 128
A fellow in a market town 297
A fellow near Kentuck's clime 494
A fig for St. Denis of France 101
A friend of mine was married to a scold 264
A hindoo died--a happy thing to do 281
A knight and a lady once met in a grove 270
A little peach in the orchard grew 931
A little saint best fits a little shrine 806
A lively young turtle lived down by the banks 923
A lovely young lady I mourn in my rhymes 366
A maiden once, of certain age 169
A man of words and not of deeds 790
A man said to the universe 248
A man sat on a rock and sought 83
A Persian penman named Aziz 810
A Poet's Cat, sedate and grave 910
A quiet home had Parson Gray 741
A rollicking Mastodon lived in Spain 853
A Russian sailed over the blue Black Sea 374
A shabby fellow chanced one day to meet 287
A soldier and a sailor 179
A soldier of the Russians 90
A speech, both pithy and concise 61
A street there is in Paris famous 714
A supercilious nabob of the East 260
A tailor, a man of an upright dealing 322
A traveller wended the wilds among 576
A well there is in the west country 584
A whale of great porosity 916
A woman is like to--but stay 118
A xylographer started to cross the sea 759
A young man once was sitting 394
Across the sands of Syria 888
Ah! Matt, old age has brought to me 362
Ah, Night! blind germ of days to be 484
Ah! poor intoxicated little knave 734
Ah, those hours when by-gone sages 779
Ah! who has seen the mailed lobster rise 882
Ah! why those piteous sounds of woe 449
Alas, unhappy land; ill-fated spot 712
All day she hurried to get through 119
All smatterers are more brisk and pert 365
Alone I sit at eventide 53
An ancient story I'll tell you anon 554
An Austrian Archduke, assaulted and assailed 829
An Austrian army, awfully array'd 813
An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this week 552
And so our royal relative was dead! 737
And this reft house is that the which he built 407
"Are women fair?" Ay, wondrous fair to see, too 189
As a friend to the children commend me the yak 906
As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping 130
As I was walkin' the jungle round, a-killin' of tigers an' time 426
As long as I dwell on some stupendous 60
As wet as a fish--as dry as a bone 791
Ask me no more: I've had enough Chablis 534
At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper 635
At morning's call 374
Baby's brain is tired of thinking 240
Back in the years when Phlagstaff, the Dane, was monarch 387
Barney McGee, there's no end of good luck in you 721
Basking in peace in the warm spring sun 674
Be brave, faint heart 445
Be kind and tender to the Frog 907
Be kind to the panther! for when thou wert young 890
Beauties, have ye seen this toy 211
Before a Turkish town 96
Behave yoursel' before folk 174
Ben Battle was a soldier bold 797
Ben Bluff was a whaler, and many a day 619
Beside a Primrose 'broider'd Rill 139
Between Adam and me the great difference is 367
Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose 82
Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides 784
"Bon jour, Madame Sans Souci 950
Bright breaks the warrior o'er the ocean wave 879
Brisk methinks I am, and fine 772
"Bunches of grapes," says Timothy 947
By the side of a murmuring stream an elderly gentleman sat 665
Bye Baby Bunting 324
Calm and implacable 375
"Can you spare a Threepenny bit 901
Careless rhymer, it is true 185
Celestine Silvousplait Justine de Mouton Rosalie 51
Charm is a woman's strongest arm 247
Chilly Dovebber with his boadigg blast 747
Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast 909
"Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life 367
Come! fill a fresh bumper,--for why should we go 833
Come fleetly, come fleetly, my hooksbadar 843
"Come here, my boy; hould up your head 103
Come hither, my heart's darling 454
Come into the Whenceness Which 476
"Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again 676
Come mighty Must! 376
Comrades, you may pass the rosy. With permission of the chair 537
De Hen-roost Man he'll preach about Paul 247
Dear maid, let me speak 810
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold 269
Dear Thomas, didst thou never pop 262
Delmonico's is where he dines 267
Der Kaiser of dis Faterland 291
Der noble Ritter Hugo 669
Did you hear of the Widow Malone 126
Dighton is engaged! Think of it and tremble! 647
Do not worry if I scurry from the grill room in a hurry 67
Do you know why the rabbits are caught in the snare 214
Do you think I'll marry a woman 817
Doe, doe! 746
Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaäy? 354
Down in the silent hallway 889
Easy is the triolet 782
Echo, tell me, while I wander 751
Even is come; and from the dark Park, hark 823
Everywhere, everywhere, following me 430
Exquisite wines and comestibles 316
Far off in the waste of desert sand 851
Far, oh, far is the Mango island 194
"Farewell!" Another gloomy word 419
Felis Infelix Cat unfortunate 736
First there's the Bible 769
For his religion it was fit 271
From Arranmore the weary miles I've come 378
From his brimstone bed at break of day 298
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through 459
From the madding crowd they stand apart 227
From the tragic-est novels at Mudie's 144
"Gentle, modest little flower 28
"Gimme my scarlet tie," 334
Gin a body meet a body 483
Gineral B. is a sensible man 292
Given a roof, and a taste for rations 311
Go and catch a falling star 330
Go 'way, fiddle; folks is tired o' hearin' you a-squawkin' 672
"God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender! 368
"God bless the man who first invented sleep!" 44
God makes sech nights, all white an' still 110
Good Luck is the gayest of all gay girls 334
Good people all, of every sort 764
Good people all, with one accord 740
Good reader! if you e'er have seen 444
"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom 369
Half a bar, half a bar 528
Hamelin Town's in Brunswick 603
Handel, Bendel, Mendelssohn 772
Hans Breitmann gife a barty 668
Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife 316
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay 580
He cannot be complete in aught 367
He dropt a tear on Susan's bier 157
He dwelt among "Apartments let," 491
He girded on his shining sword 100
He is too weet a melancholy carle 496
He killed the noble Mudjokivis 482
He lived in a cave by the seas 331
He stood on his head by the wild seashore 75
He thought he saw an Elephant 874
He took her fancy when he came 817
He was the chairman of the Guild 244
Hear what Highland Nora said 159
Her heart she locked fast in her breast 209
Her little feet! Beneath us ranged the sea 59
Her washing ended with the day 494
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! 368
Here lieth one, who did not most truly prove 780
Here's to the town of New Haven 949
Hi! Just you drop that! Stop, I say! 460
His eye was stern and wild--his cheek was pale and cold as clay 450
History, and nature, too, repeat themselves, they say 360
How do the daughters 533
"How does the water 743
How hard, when those who do not wish 818
How old may Philis be, you ask 332
How uneasy is his life 344
Hyder iddle didle dell 879
Hypocrisy will serve as well 365
I am 900
I am a friar of orders gray 282
I am an ancient Jest! 72
I come from good old Boston 949
I am a hearthrug 377
I am a lone, unfeathered chick 903
I am numb from world-pain 380
I, Angelo, obese, black-garmented 428
I asked of Echo, t'other day 750
I cannot praise the doctor's eyes 368
I cannot sing the old songs 413
I cannot tell you how I love 235
I couldn't help weeping with delight 521
I count it true which sages teach 413
I devise to end my days--in a tavern drinking 834
I du believe in Freedom's cause 294
I do confess, in many a sigh 86
I don't go much on religion 657
I don't know any greatest treat 180
I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week 853
I dwells in the Hearth, and I breathes in the Hair 763
I gaed to spend a week in Fife 350
I hae laid a herring in saut 216
I haf von funny leedle poy 940
I have a bookcase, which is what 40
I have a copper penny and another copper penny 809
I have felt the thrill of passion in the poet's mystic book 32
I have found out a gig-gig-gift for my fuf-fuf-fair 822
I have made me an end of the moods of maidens 511
I have watch'd thee with rapture, and dwelt on thy charms 456
I knew an old wife lean and poor 611
I know not of what we ponder'd 63
I know when milk does flies contain 343
I lately lived in quiet ease 218
I lay i' the bosom of the sun 407
I love my lady with a deep purple love 383
I love thee, Mary, and thou lovest me 206
"I love you, my lord!" 120
I marvell'd why a simple child 543
I may as well 685
I never rear'd a young gazelle 544
I never saw a Purple Cow 948
"I never saw a purple cow 515
I recollect a nurse call'd Ann 156
I remember, I remember 107
I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James 650
I said, "This horse, sir, will you shoe?" 809
I sat one night beside a blue-eyed girl 207
I saw a certain sailorman who sat beside the sea 70
I saw a peacock with a fiery tail 804
I sent for Ratcliffe; was so ill 365
I sent my love a parcel 262
I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau 212
I sometimes think I'd rather crow 891
I strolled beside the shining sea 844
I tell thee, Dick, where I have been 704
I walked and came upon a picket fence 470
I was in Margate last July. I walk'd upon the pier 558
I wonder what your thoughts are, little cloud 134
I would all womankind were dead 88
I would flee from the city's rule and law 883
I would that all men my hard case might know 397
I wrote some lines once on a time 38
I wus mighty good-lookin' when I was young 129
I yearn to bite on a Colloid 91
I'd Never Dare to Walk across 855
I'd read three hours. Both notes and text 142
If all be true that I do think 364
If all the harm women have done 248
If all the land were apple-pie 951
If all the trees in all the woods were men 238
If down his throat a man should choose 844
If e'er my rhyming be at fault 55
If ever there lived a Yankee lad 690
If I go to see the play 48
If I should die to-night 489
If I were thine, I'd fail not of endeavour 345
If I were you, when ladies at the play, Sir 146
If, in the month of dark December 80
If life were never bitter 436
If the man who turnips cries 949
If there is a vile, pernicious 60
If thou wouldst stand on Etna's burning brow 445
If we square a lump of pemmican 880
If you become a nun, dear 206
I'll sing you a song, not very long 275
I'll tell thee everything I can 870
I'm taught p-l-o-u-g-h 761
I'm thankful that the sun and moon 882
"Immortal Newton never spoke 369
In a church which is furnish'd with mullion and gable, I 280
In a Devonshire lane as I trotted along 266
In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow 368
In an ocean, 'way out yonder 929
In Ballades things always contrive to get lost 441
In Broad Street Buildings on a winter night 563
In candent ire the solar splendour flames 849
In days of peace my fellow-men 31
In early youth, as you may guess 918
In form and feature, face and limb 108
In heaven a spirit doth dwell 472
In his chamber, weak and dying 785
In Köln, a town of monks and bones 363
In letters large upon the frame 347
In London I never know what I'd be at 265
In our hearts is the Great One of Avon 824
In the age that was golden, the halcyon time 338
In the "Foursome" some would fain 222
In the lonesome latter years 429
In these days of indigestion 77
"In winter, when the fields are white 872
Inglorious friend! most confident I am 734
Interred beneath this marble stone 765
Is moss-prankt dells which the sunbeams flatter 372
It is told, on Buddhi-theosophic schools 92
It is very aggravating 50
It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day 601
It may be so--perhaps thou hast 236
It once might have been, once only 339
It was a millinger most gay 186
It was a Moorish maiden was sitting by the well 196
It was a robber's daughter, and her name was Alice Brown 639
It was a summer's evening 252
It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side 583
It was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine 904
It was a hairy oubit, sac proud he crept alabg 330
It was in a pleasant deepô, sequestered from the rain 613
It was many and many a year ago 532
It ripen'd by the river banks 444
It worries me to beat the band 137
Its eyes are gray 121
I've been trying to fashion a wifely ideal 68
Jacob! I do not like to see thy nose 914
Jem writes his verses with more speed 363
Jim Bowker, he said, if he'd had a fair show 357
John Alcohol, my foe, John 529
John Bull for pastime took a prance 808
John Gilpin was a citizen of credit and renown 564
John Grumlie Swore by the light o' the moon 326
Just take a trifling handful, O philosopher 314
Kitty wants to write! Kitty intellectual! 646
Knitting is the maid o' the kitchen, Milly 220
Knows he that never took a pinch 832
La Galisse now I wish to touch 814
Lady Clara Vere de Vere! 412
Lady, I loved you all last year 327
Lady mine, most fair thou art 221
Lady, very fair are you 184
Lanty was in love, you see 208
Last year I trod these fields with Di 155
Lazy-bones, lazy-bones, wake up and peep! 848
Lest it may more quarrels breed 279
Life and the Universe show spontaneity 315
Life is a gift that most of us hold dear 357
Life would be an easy matter 57
Lilies, lilies, white lilies and yellow 379
Like to the thundering tone of unspoke speeches 848
Little bopeepals 324
Little I ask; my wants are few 238
Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay 934
Little Penelope Socrates 284
Lives there a man with a soul so dead 786
Long by the willow-trees 439
Lord Erskine, at women presuming to rail 366
Malbrouck, the prince of commanders 28
Man is for woman made 41
Many a long, long year ago 664
Margarita first possess'd 176
Marry, I lent my gossip my mare, to fetch home coals 807
Mary had a little lamb 506
Matilda Maud Mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin 395
May the Babylonish curse 726
Men, Dying, make their wills, but wives 362
Men once were surnamed for their shape or estate 804
'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam 498
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn 229
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa! 95
Miss Flora McFlimsey, of Madison Square 148
Mr. Finney had a turnip 847
My brother Jack was nine in May 390
My coachman, in the moonlight there 359
My curse upon you venom'd stang 724
My dear young friend, whose shining wit 42
My feet, they haul me Round the House 855
My Heart will break--I'm sure it will 183
My lank limp lily, my long lithe lily 510
My little dears, who learn to read, pray early, learn to shun 828
My Love has sicklied unto Loath 410
My Madeline! my Madeline! 773
My passion is as mustard strong 754
My pipe is lit, my grog is mixed 342
My temples throb, my pulses boil 49
My William was a soldier, and he says to me, says he 598
Mysterious Nothing! how shall I define 786
Nay, I cannot come into the garden just now 188
"Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? 249
Night saw the crew like pedlars with their packs 841
No fault in women, to refuse 166
No longer, O scholars, shall Platus 826
No sun--no moon! 792
No usual words can bear the woe I feel 379
Nothing to do but work 358
Now Jake looked up--it was time to sup, and the buckets was
yet to fill 421
Now the Widow Mcgee 165
O cool in the summer is salad 436
"O Crikey, Bill!" she ses to me, she ses 400
O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! 781
O, if my love offended me 184
O lady wake!--the azure moon 886
O mickle yeuks the keckle doup 384
O my earliest love, who, ere I number'd 116
O nymph with the nicest of noses 544
O precious code, volume, tome 825
O reverend sir, I do declare 195
O say, have you seen at the willows so green 921
O Season supposed of all free flowers 527
O the quietest home on earth had I 720
O thou wha in the heavens dost dwell 272
O what harper could worthily harp it 64
O'er the men of Ethiopia she would pour her cornucopia 160
Of all life's plagues I recommend to no man 76
Of all the girls that are so smart 182
Of all the mismated pairs ever created 480
Of all the men one meets about 370
Of all the rides since the birth of time 688
Of all the wimming doubly blest 241
Of priests we can offer a charmin' variety 719
Oh, but she was dark and shrill 509
Oh, dewy was the morning, upon the first of May 949
Oh, I have been North, and I have been South, and the East
hath seen me pass 403
Oh! I have loved thee fondly, ever 732
Oh, I know a certain woman who is reckoned with the good 132
Oh, I used to sing a song 768
Oh, I want to win me hame 385
Oh listen, little children, to a proper little song 937
Oh, many have told of the monkeys of old 913
Oh, Mary had a little lamb, regarding whose cuticular 477
Oh, my Geraldine 180
Oh, sing a song of phosphates 324
Oh, solitude thou wonder-working fay 457
Oh, tell me have you ever seen a red, long-leg'd Flamingo? 894
Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize! 851
Oh, the days were ever shiny 204
Oh, the fisherman is a happy wight! 81
Oh, the Roman was a rogue 753
"Oh, 'tis time I should talk to your mother 181
Oh, 'twas O'Nolan M'Figg 700
Oh, what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes! 26
"Oh! what is that comes gliding in 800
Oh, what's the way to Arcady? 201
Oh, Wing Tee Wee 139
Oh, would that working I might shun 47
Oh, yes, we've be'n fixin' some sence we sold that piece o'
groun' 192
Oh! young Lochinvar has come out of the West 381
Old Grimes is dead; that good old man 766
Old man never had much to say 678
Old Nick, who taught the village school 174
On wan dark night on Lac St. Pierre 662
On me he shall ne'er put a ring 191
On the Coast of Goromandel 859
On the downtown side of an uptown street 79
On the eighth day of March it was, some people say 58
One day the dreary old King of death 801
One evening while reclining 268
One morning when Spring was in her teens 188
One of the kings of Scanderoon 578
One stormy morn I chanced to meet 123
One, who is not, we see; but one, whom we see not, is 458
Or ever a lick of Art was done 383
Out of the clothes that cover me 471
Out on the margin of moonshine land 858
Out rode from his wild, dark castle 49
Out upon it, I have loved 218
Over the way, over the way 125
Paddy, in want of a dinner one day 571
Paddy McCabe was dying one day 307
Peerless yet hapless maid of Q! 787
Perchance it was her eyes of blue 74
Perhaps you may a-noticed I been soht o' solemn lately 157
Philosophy shows us 'twixt monkey and man 92
Ph, it's H-A-P-P-Y I am, and it's F-R-double-E 816
Poor Lucy Lake was overgrown 463
Potiphar Gubbins, C.E. 226
Pour varlet, pour the water 486
Power to thine elbow, thou newest of sciences 409
Quest.--Why is a pump like Viscount Castlereagh? 370
Qui nune dancere vult modo 832
Quixotic is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is 25
Quoth John to Joan, will thou have me 217
Rain on the face of the sea 427
Remembering his taste for blood 893
Roll on, thou ball, roll on! 256
Rooster her sign 414
Row-diddy, dow de, my little sis 670
Said Opie Read to E. P. Roe 948
Said the Raggedy Man on a hot afternoon 856
Saint Anthony at church 251
Sally Salter, she was a young lady who taught 812
Sam Brown was a fellow from way down East 52
Say there! P'r'aps 652
Scintillate scintillate, globule orific 476
"Scorn not the sonnet," though its strength be sapped 281
See yonder goes old Mendax, telling lies 369
Sez Alderman Grady 232
Sez Corporal Madden to Private McFadden 230
Shall I, mine affections slack 526
She flung the parlour window wide 205
Shepherd. Echo, I wean, will in the woods reply 752
She kept her secret well, oh, yes 158
She stood beneath the mistletoe 196
She went around and asked subscriptions 167
Side by side in the crowded streets 393
Sin, I admit your general rule 363
Since for kissing thee, Minguillo 122
Sing for the garish eye 875
Singee a songee sick a pence 530
Singing through the forests 748
Sir Guy was a doughty crusader 644
Sleep, my own darling 932
Slim feet than lilies tenderer 477
Sly Beelzebub took all occasions 364
So slowly you walk, and so quickly you eat 369
So that's Cleopathera's Needle, bedad 105
Some ladies now make pretty songs 367
Some poets sing of sweethearts dead 223
Speak gently to the herring and kindly to the calf 891
"Speak, O man less recent! 46
Spontaneous Us! 417
Stiff are the warrior's muscles 456
Strange pie that is almost a passion 472
Strike the concertina's melancholy string! 641
Sudden swallows swiftly skimming 774
Superintendent wuz Flannigan 225
Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack? 399
Swans sing before they die:--'twere no bad thing 364
Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy 830
Take a robin's leg 76
That man must lead a happy life 803
That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not) 493
The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup 87
The auld wife sat at her ivied door 467
The Ballyshannon foundered off the coast of Cariboo 256
The cat is in the parlour 950
The chill November day was done 938
The Crankadox leaned o'er the edge of the moon 855
The crow--the crow! the great black crow! 908
The day was done, and darkness 490
The editor sat with his head in his hands 447
The Emperor Nap he would set off 775
The fable which I now present 249
The frugal crone, whom praying priest attend 285
The gallows in my garden, people say 224
The hale John Spratt--oft called for shortness, Jack 406
"The Herring he loves the merry moonlight 949
The honey-moon is very strange 366
The jackals prowl, the serpents hiss 445
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair! 586
The King was sick. His cheek was red 658
The Lady Jane was tall and slim 590
The Laird o' Cockpen, he's proud and he's great 703
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy, hairy goat 906
The man in the wilderness asked of me 951
The man who invented women's waists that button down behind 94
The Messed Damozel leaned out 471
The Microbe is so very small 907
The mountain and the squirrel 290
The night was thick and hazy 617
The oft'ner seen, the more I lust 807
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea 901
The Pobble who has no toes 865
The poet is, or ought to be, a hater of the city 97
The Pope he leads a happy life 70
"The proper way for a man to pray," 54
The prospect is bare and white 42
The Roof it has a Lazy Time 855
The saddest fish that swims the briny ocean 900
The sextant of the meetinouse, which sweeps 66
The skies they were ashen and sober 423
The sun is in the sky, mother, the flowers are springing fair 451
The sun was setting, and vespers done 313
The sun was shining on the sea 896
The Thingumbob sat at eventide 882
The town of Nice! the town of Nice! 438
The woggly bird sat on the whango tree 842
The woodchuck told it all about 312
There be two men of all mankind 35
There is a river clear and fair 535
There lived an old man in the kingdom of Tess 866
There lived a sage in days of yore 850
There once was a Shah had a second son 199
There sat an old man on a rock 348
There's a bower of bean-vines in Benjamin's yard 493
There's somewhat on my breast, father 443
There wanst was two cats at Kilkenny 950
There was a Cameronian cat 917
There was a child, as I have been told 946
There was a cruel darkey boy 927
There was a lady liv'd at Leith 742
There was a little girl 926
There was a man in Arkansaw 697
There was a negro preacher, I have heard 274
There was an old man of Tobago 835
There was a snake that dwelt in Skye 887
There was a young lady of Niger 948
There was (not a certain when) a certain preacher 282
There was once a little man, and his rod and line he took 200
There were three jovial huntsmen 878
There were three kings into the east 730
There were three young maids of Lee 170
There were three sailors of Bristol City 546
There were two of us left in the berry-patch 479
These are the things that make me laugh 73
They called him Bill, the hired man 653
They nearly strike me dumb 153
They're always abusing the women 126
They spoke of Progress spiring round 337
They stood on the bridge at midnight 489
They tell me (but I really can't 600
They told hum gently he was made 89
They've got a brand-new organ, Sue 162
They went to sea in a sieve, they did 862
Thine eyes, dear ones, dot dot, are like, dash, what? 824
This is the tale that was told to me 680
Thou art like unto a Flower 427
Thou happy, happy elf! 941
Thou shall have one God only, who 261
Thou who, when fears attack 732
Though I met her in the summer, when one's heart lies round at
east 345
Three children sliding on the ice 843
Three score and ten by common calculation 99
Tim Turpin he was gravel blind 795
'Tis midnight and the moonbeam sleeps 411
'Tis midnight, and the setting sun 843
'Tis sweet at dewy eve to rove 450
'Tis sweet to roam when morning's light 878
To Lake Aghmoogenegamook 757
To make this condiment, your poet begs 93
The outer senses they are geese 509
To see the Kaiser's epitaph 948
To Urn, or not to Urn? that is the question 534
To you, my purse, and to none other wight 58
Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles 141
Trilobite, Graphtolite, Nautilus pie 324
"True 'tis a P T, and P T 'tis, 'tis true" 788
'Twas a pretty little maiden 161
'Twas after supper of Norfolk brawn 884
'Twas April when she came to town 120
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 869
'Twas brussels, and the loose liege 482
'Twas ever thus from childhood's hour! 469
'Twas gilbert. The kchesterton 437
'Twas late, and the gay company was gone 446
'Twas more than a million years ago 497
'Twas on a lofty vase's side 557
'Twas on a windy night 214
'Twas on the shores that round our coast 632
'Twas raw, and chill, and cold outside 98
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house 935
'Twas whispered in heaven, 'twas muttered in hell 762
Two gentlemen their appetite had fed 666
Two honest tradesmen meeting in the Strand 254
Two old Bachelors were living in one house 868
Two webfoot brothers loved a fair 629
Two Yankee wags, one summer day 572
Tying her bonnet under her chin 124
Uncle Simon he 849
Upon a rock, yet uncreate 771
Upon an island, all alone 683
Upon ane stormy Sunday 190
Upon the poop the captain stands 876
Wake! for the Hack can scatter into flight 512
Wal, no! I can't tell whar he lives 661
Wan from the wild and woful West 386
Was once a hen of wit not small 892
We climbed to the top of Goat Point hill 210
We love thee Ann Maria Smith 389
We rode the tawny Texan hills 288
We seek to know, and knowing seek 463
We were crowded in the cabin 492
We've lived for forty years, dear wife 246
Well I recall how first I met 30
Werther had a love for Charlotte 140
What asks the Bard? He prays for nought 320
What, he on whom our voices unanimously ran 286
What is Earth, sexton--A place to dig graves 810
What is the matter with Grandpapa? 950
What lightning shall light it? What thunder shall tell it? 404
What makes you come here fer, Mister 925
What motley cares Corilla's mind perplex 278
What! not know our Clean Clara? 283
"What other men have dared, I dare." 109
What poor short-sighted worms we be 353
What? rise again with all one's bones 363
What, what, what 710
What will we do when the good days come 311
Whenas to shoot my Julia goes 418
When Chapman billies leave the street 623
When dido found Aeneas would not come 366
When good King Arthur ruled the land 879
When I am dead you'll find it hard 109
When I had firmly answered "no," 431
When I was young and full o' pride 115
When lovely woman wants a favor 494
When Mary Ann Dollinger got the skule daown thar on Injun Bay 168
When men a dangerous disease did 'scape 365
When moonlike ore the hazure seas 34
When nettles in winter bring forth roses red 276
When sporgles spanned the floreate mead 877
When swallows Northward flew 191
When that old joke was new 33
When the breeze from the bluebottle's blustering blim 852
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock 34
When the landlord wants the rent 336
When the little armadillo 902
When they heard the Captain humming and beheld the dancing crew 615
When you slice a Georgy melon you mus' know what you is at 73
Whene'er I take my walks abroad 950
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view 84
Where the Moosatockmaguntic 113
Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays 402
"Wherefore starts my bosom's lord? 453
Which I wish to remark 648
Which is of greater value, prythee, say 371
While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive 370
Who am I? 434
Who money hast, well wages the campaign 323
Who, or why, or which, or what 708
"Who stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in the shop 309
1. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? 783
"Why do you wear your hair like a man 474
Why don't the men propose, mamma? 130
Why doth the pussy cat prefer 895
Why is it the children don't love me 943
Why should you swear I am forsworn 241
Why was Cupid a boy 56
Wisely a woman prefers to a lover a man who neglects her 247
With chocolate-cream that you buy in the cake 932
With due condescension, I'd call your attention 106
With ganial foire 547
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night 928
Ye may tramp the world over 717
Years--years ago--ere yet my dreams 171
Yes, write if you want to--there's nothing like trying 36
Yet another great truth I record in my verse 906
"You are old, Father William," the young man said 485
"You are old, Father William," the young man said 531
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come 362
You bid me try, Blue-eyes, to write 782
"You gave me the key of your heart, my love 137
"You have heard," said a youth to his sweetheart, who stood 133
You may notch it on the palin's as a mighty resky plan 312
"You must give back," her mother said 198
You prefer a buffoon to a scholar 339
You see this pebble-stone? It's a thing I bought 464
You Wi'yum, sir, dis minute. Wut dat you got 325
You wrote a line too much, my sage 362
Young Ben he was a nice young man 792
Young Rory O'More courted Kathleen Bawn 141
Your poem must eternal be 364
Zack Bumstead useter flosserfize 242
Zig-zagging it went 760
INDEX OF TITLES
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A
Accepted and Will Appear _Parmenas Mix_ 268
Actor, An _John Wolcot_ 287
Ad Chloen, M. A. _Mortimer Collins_ 184
Address to the Toothache _Robert Burns_ 724
Æstivation _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 849
After Dilettante Concetti _H. D. Traill_ 474
After Horace _A. D. Godley_ 320
Ahkoond of Swat, The _George Thomas Lanigan_ 710
Ahkond of Swat, The _Edward Lear_ 708
Ain't It Awful, Mabel? _John Edward Hazzard_ 137
Alarmed Skipper, The _James Thomas Fields_ 664
All at Sea _Frederick Moxon_ 70
All-Saints _Edmund Yates_ 280
All's Well That Ends Well _Unknown_ 264
All Things Except Myself I Know _François Villon_ 343
Amazing Facts About Food _Unknown_ 91
Ambiguous Lines _Unknown_ 804
American Traveller, The _Robert H. Newell_ (_Orpheus C. Kerr_) 751
Angelo Orders His Dinner _Bayard Taylor_ 428
Annabel Lee _Stanley Huntley_ 497
Annuity, The _George Outram_ 350
Answer to Master Wither's Song, "Shall I, Wasting in Despair?"
_Ben Jonson_ 526
Any One Will Do _Unknown_ 169
Appeal for Are to the Sextant of the Old Brick Meetinouse, A
_Arabella Willson_ 66
Are Women Fair? _Francis Davison_ 189
Art of Book-keeping, The _Laman Blanchard_ 818
As to the Weather _Unknown_ 107
At the Sign of the Cock _Owen Seaman_ 414
B
Baby's Début, The _James Smith_ 390
Bachelor's Dream, The _Thomas Hood_ 342
Bachelor's Mono-Rhyme, A _Charles Mackay_ 817
Bald-headed Tyrant, The _Mary E. Vandyne_ 720
Ballad _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 467
Ballad, A _Guy Wetmore Carryl_ 426
Ballade of An Anti-Puritan, A _G. K. Chesterton_ 337
Ballade of Ballade-Mongers, A _Augustus M. Moore_ 441
Ballad of Bedlam, A _Unknown_ 886
Ballad of Bouillabaisse, The _W. M. Thackeray_ 714
Ballad of the Canal _Ph[oe]be Cary_ 492
Ballad of Cassandra Brown, The _Helen Gray Cone_ 345
Ballad of Charity, A _Charles Godfrey Leland_ 613
Ballad of the Emeu, The _Bret Harte_ 921
Ballade of Forgotten Loves _Arthur Grissom_ 223
Ballade of the Golfer in Love _Clinton Scollard_ 222
Ballad of Hans Breitmann _Charles Godfrey Leland_ 669
Ballad of High Endeavor, A _Unknown_ 484
Ballad of the Oysterman, The _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 583
Ballad of the Primitive Jest _Andrew Lang_ 72
Ballade of Suicide, A _G. K. Chesterton_ 224
Bangkolidye _Barry Pain_ 334
Barney McGee _Richard Hovey_ 721
Battle of Blenheim, The _Robert Southey_ 252
Behave Yoursel' Before Folk _Alexander Rodger_ 174
Behold the Deeds _H. C. Bunner_ 397
Bellancholly Days _Unknown_ 747
Belle of the Ball, The _Winthrop Mackworth Praed_ 171
Bells, The _Unknown_ 816
Ben Bluff _Thomas Hood_ 619
Bessie Brown, M. D. _Samuel Minturn Peck_ 120
Bird in the Hand, A _Frederic E. Weatherly_ 170
Birth of Saint Patrick, The _Samuel Lover_ 58
Bitter Bit, The _William E. Aytoun_ 451
Blow Me Eyes! _Wallace Irwin_ 115
Boston Lullaby, A _James Jeffrey Roche_ 240
Boston Nursery Rhymes _Rev. Joseph Cook_ 324
Broken Pitcher, The _William E. Aytoun_ 86
Bunches of Grapes _Walter Ramal_ 947
Buxom Joan _William Congreve_ 179
Bygones _Bert Leston Taylor_ 383
By Parcels Post _George R. Sims_ 262
C
Cacoethes Scribendi _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 238
Camerados _Bayard Taylor_ 430
Cameronian Cat, The _Unknown_ 917
Candidate's Creed, The _James Russell Lowell_ 294
Cantelope, The _Bayard Taylor_ 393
Careful Penman, The _Unknown_ 810
Carman's Account of a Law Suit, A _Sir David Lindesay_ 807
Casey at the Bat _Ernest Lawrence Thayer_ 601
Catalectic Monody, A _Unknown_ 833
Cataract of Lodore, The _Robert Southey_ 743
Categorical Courtship _Unknown_ 207
Catfish, The _Oliver Herford_ 900
"Caudal" Lecture, A _William Sawyer_ 92
Cautionary Verses _Theodore Hook_ 828
Chemist to His Love, The _Unknown_ 206
Chloe, M. A. _Mortimer Collins_ 185
Chorus of Women _Aristophanes_ 126
Christmas Chimes _Unknown_ 284
Chronicle: A Ballad, The _Abraham Cowley_ 176
Circumstance _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 444
Clean Clara _W. B. Rands_ 283
Cloud, The _Oliver Herford_ 134
Clown's Courtship, The _Unknown_ 217
Cock and the Bull, The _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 464
Cologne _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 363
Colubriad, The _William Cowper_ 909
Comfort in Affliction _William E. Aytoun_ 453
Comic Miseries _John G. Saxe_ 42
Comical Girl, The _M. Pelham_ 946
Commonplaces _Rudyard Kipling_ 427
Companions _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 63
Confession, The _Richard Harris Barham_ (_Thomas Ingoldsby_) 443
Conjugal Conjugations _A. W. Bellaw_ 810
Conjugal Conundrum, A _Unknown_ 371
Constancy _John Boyle O'Reilly_ 137
Constant Cannibal Maiden, The _Wallace Irwin_ 194
Contentment _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 238
Contrast, The _Captain C. Morris_ 265
Converted Cannibals, The _G. E. Farrow_ 683
Cosmic Egg, The _Unknown_ 771
Cosmopolitan Woman, A _Unknown_ 167
Cossimbazar _Henry S. Leigh_ 843
Counsel to Those That Eat _Unknown_ 932
Country Summer Pastoral, A _Unknown_ 883
Courtin', The _James Russell Lowell_ 110
Courting in Kentucky _Florence E. Pratt_ 168
Cremation _William Sawyer_ 534
Crystal Palace, The _W. M. Thackeray_ 547
Culture in the Slums _William Ernest Henley_ 400
Cumberbunce, The _Paul West_ 844
Cupid _William Blake_ 56
Cupid _Ben Jonson_ 211
Cupid's Darts _Unknown_ 67
Cynical Ode to An Ultra-Cynical Public _Charles Mackay_ 339
Cynicus to W. Shakespeare _James Kenneth Stephen_ 362
D
Darius Green and His Flying-Machine _John Townsend Trowbridge_ 690
Darwinian Ballad _Unknown_ 913
Darwinity _Herman C. Merivale_ 409
Day Is Done," "The _Ph[oe] be Cary_ 490
Deacon's Masterpiece, The _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 580
Death's Ramble _Thomas Hood_ 801
Declaration, The _N. P. Willis_ 446
Devil's Walk on Earth, The _Robert Southey_ 298
Devonshire Lane, The _John Marriott_ 266
Dialogue from Plato, A _Austin Dobson_ 142
Dido _Richard Porson_ 366
Dighton Is Engaged _Gelett Burgess_ 647
Dinkey-Bird, The _Eugene Field_ 929
Dirge _Unknown_ 787
Dirge, A _William Augustus Croffut_ 737
Dirge of the Moolla of Kotal _George T. Lanigan_ 712
Disaster _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 469
Distichs _John Hay_ 247
Diversions of the Re-Echo Club _Carolyn Wells_ 515
Diverting History of John Gilpin, The _William Cowper_ 564
Divided Destinies _Rudyard Kipling_ 704
Donnybrook Jig, The _Viscount Dillon_ 700
Dora Versus Rose _Austin Dobson_ 144
Double Ballade of Primitive Man _Andrew Lang_ 331
Dutch Lullaby _Eugene Field_ 928
E
Early Rising _J. G. Saxe_ 44
Eastern Question, An _H. M. Paull_ 598
Echo _J. G. Saxe_ 750
Editor's Wooing, The _Robert H. Newell_ (_Orpheus C. Kerr_) 389
Elderly Gentleman, The _George Canning_ 665
Elegy _Arthur Guiterman_ 445
Elegy, An _Oliver Goldsmith_ 740
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An _Oliver Goldsmith_ 764
Enchanted Shirt, The _John Hay_ 658
Endless Song, The _Ruth McEnery Stuart_ 968
Enigma on the Letter H _Catherine Fanshawe_ 762
Epitaph, An _George John Cayley_ 366
Epitaph, An _Matthew Prior_ 765
Epitaph Intended for His Wife _John Dryden_ 368
Erring in Company _Franklin P. Adams_ 55
Eternal Poem, An _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 364
Etiquette _W. S. Gilbert_ 256
"Exactly So" _Lady T. Hastings_ 61
Extracts from the Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne _Gelett Burgess_ 512
F
Fable, _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 290
Fair Millinger, The _Fred W. Loring_ 186
Faithless Nellie Gray _Thomas Hood_ 797
Faithless Sally Brown _Thomas Hood_ 792
False Love and True Logic _Laman Blanchard_ 183
Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents, A
_Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 36
Farewell _Bert Leston Taylor_ 419
Farewell to Tobacco, A _Charles Lamb_ 726
Fastidious Serpent, The _Henry Johnstons_ 887
Father Molloy. _Samuel Lover_ 307
Father O'Flynn _Alfred Perceval Graves_ 719
Father William _Lewis Carroll_ 485
Father William _Unknown_ 531
Feminine Arithmetic _Charles Graham Halpine_ 191
Fernando and Elvira _W. S. Gilbert_ 635
Fin de Siècle _Unknown_ 357
Finnigin to Flannigan _S. W. Gillinan_ 225
First Banjo, The _Irwin Russell_ 672
First Love _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 116
Fish Story, A _Henry A. Beers_ 916
Fisherman's Chant, The _F. C. Burnand_ 81
Five Wives _Robert Herrick_ 772
Flamingo, The _Lewis Gaylord Clark_ 894
Foam and Fangs _Walter Parke_ 544
Fool and the Poet, The _Alexander Pope_ 363
For I Am Sad _Don Marquis_ 379
Forlorn One, The _Richard Harris Barham_ (_Thomas Ingoldsby_) 449
Forty Years After _H. H. Porter_ 210
Fragment, A _Unknown_ 450
Friar of Orders Gray, The _John O'Keefe_ 282
Frog, The _Hilaire Belloc_ 907
From a Full Heart _A. A. Milne_ 31
Future of the Classics, The _Anonymous_ 826
G
Gentle Alice Brown _W. S. Gilbert_ 639
Gentle Echo on Woman, A _Dean Swift_ 752
Gifts Returned _Walter Savage Landor_ 198
Giles's Hope _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 363
Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar, A _Guy Wetmore Carryl_ 395
Good and Bad Luck _John Hay_ 334
Goose, The _Lord Tennyson_ 611
Gouty Marchant and the Stranger, The _Horace Smith_ 563
Grain of Salt, A _Wallace Irwin_ 241
Grampy Sings a Song _Holman F. Day_ 670
Great Black Crow, The _Philip James Bailey_ 908
Great Fight, A _Robert H. Newell_ (_Orpheus C. Kerr_) 697
H
Half Hours with the Classics _H. J. DeBurgh_ 779
Hans Breitmann's Party _Charles Godfrey Leland_ 668
Happy Man, The _Gilles Ménage_ 814
He and She _Eugene Fitch Ware_ 109
He Came to Pay _Parmenas Mix_ 447
Height of the Ridiculous, The _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 38
Hen, The _Matthew Claudius_ 892
Hen-Roost Man, The _Ruth McEnery Stuart_ 247
Here Is the Tale _Anthony C. Deane_ 421
Here She Goes and There She Goes _James Nack_ 572
Her Little Feet _William Ernest Henley_ 59
Herring, The _Sir Walter Scott_ 949
Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 458
Hiram Hover _Bayard Taylor_ 113
His Mother-in-Law _Walter Parke_ 75
Hoch! Der Kaiser _Rodney Blake_ 291
Holy Willie's Prayer _Robert Burns_ 272
Home and Mother _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 932
Hom[oe]opathic Soup _Unknown_ 76
Home Sweet Home with Variations _H. C. Bunner_ 498
Honey-Moon, The _Walter Savage Landor_ 366
House That Jack Built, The _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 407
How the Daughters Come Down at Dunoon _H. Chalmondeley-Pennell_ 533
How Often _Ben King_ 489
How to Ask and Have _Samuel Lover_ 181
How to Eat Watermelons _Frank Libby Stanton_ 73
How to Make a Man of Consequence _Mark Lemon_ 280
Humpty Dumpty's Recitations _Lewis Carroll_ 872
Hundred Best Books, The _Mostyn T. Pigott_ 769
Hunting of the Snark, The _Lewis Carroll_ 676
Husband and Heathen Sam _Walter Foss_ 160
Husband's Petition, The _William B. Aytoun_ 454
Hyder Iddle _Unknown_ 879
Hypocrisy _Samuel Butler_ 365
I
Ideal Husband to His Wife, The _Sam Walter Foss_ 246
"I Didn't Like Him" _Harry B. Smith_ 157
Idyll of Phatte and Leene, An _Unknown_ 406
If _Unknown_ 951
If _Mortimer Collins_ 436
If _H. C. Dodge_ 268
If I Should Die To-night _Ben King_ 489
If the Man _Samuel Johnson_ 949
If They Meant All They Said _Alice Duer Miller_ 247
If We Didn't Have to Eat _Nixon Waterman_ 57
If You Have Seen _Thomas Moore_ 444
I Hae Laid a Herring in Saut _James Tytler_ 216
Imaginative Crisis, The _Unknown_ 457
Imagiste Love Lines _Unknown_ 383
Imitation _Anthony C. Deane_ 375
Imitation of Walt Whitman _Unknown_ 434
Imitation of Wordsworth, An _Catherine M. Fanshawe_ 535
Indifference _Unknown_ 950
In Memoriam _Cuthbert Bede_ 463
In Memoriam Technicam _Thomas Hood, Jr._ 413
Invisible Bridge, The _Gelett Burgess_ 855
Invitation to the Zoölogical Gardens, An _Unknown_ 822
Inspect Us _Edith Daniell_ 471
In the Catacombs _Harlan Hoge Ballard_ 52
Irishman and the Lady, The _William Maginn_ 742
Irish Schoolmaster, The _James A. Sidey_ 103
Israfiddlestrings _Unknown_ 472
J
Jabberwocky _Lewis Carroll_ 869
Jabberwocky of Authors, The _Harry Parsons Taber_ 437
Jackdaw of Rheims, The _Richard Harris Barham_
(_Thomas Ingoldsby_) 586
Jacob _Ph[oe]be Cary_ 491
Jester Condemned to Death, The _Horace Smith_ 578
"Jim" _Bret Harte_ 652
Jim Bludso _John Hay_ 661
Jim-Jam King of the Jou-Jous _Alaric Bertrand Stuart_ 851
Job _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 364
Jocosa Lyra _Austin Dobson_ 824
John Barleycorn _Robert Burns_ 730
John Grumlie _Allen Cunningham_ 326
John Thompson's Daughter _Ph[oe]be Cary_ 494
Jovial Priest's Confession, The _Leigh Hunt_ 834
Joys of Marriage, The _Charles Cotton_ 344
Jumbles, The _Edward Lear_ 862
Justice to Scotland _Unknown_ 384
K
K. K.--Can't Calculate _Frances M. Whitcher_ 353
Kentucky Philosophy _Harrison Robertson_ 325
Kindly Advice _Unknown_ 890
Kindness to Animals _J. Ashby-Sterry_ 891
King Arthur _Unknown_ 879
King John and the Abbot _Unknown_ 554
Kilkenny Cats, The _Unknown_ 950
Kiss, The _Tom Masson_ 109
Kiss in the Rain, A _Samuel Minturn Peck_ 123
Kitchen Clock, The _John Vance Cheney_ 220
Kitty of Coleraine _Edward Lysaght_ 130
Kitty Wants to Write _Gelett Burgess_ 646
K. K.--Can't Calculate _F. M. Witcher_ 354
Knife-Grinder, The _George Canning_ 249
Knight and the Lady, The _Richard Harris Barham_
(_Thomas Ingoldsby_) 590
L
Lady Mine _H. E. Clarke_ 221
Laird O'Cockpen, The _Lady Nairne_ 703
Lament of the Scotch Irish Exile _James Jeffrey Roche_ 385
Lanty Leary _Samuel Lover_ 208
Larrie O'Dee, _William W. Fink_ 165
Last Ride Together, The _James Kenneth Stephen_ 431
Latest Decalogue, The _Arthur Hugh Clough_ 261
Laughing Willow, The _Oliver Herford_ 948
Lawyer's Invocation to Spring, The _Henry Howard Brownell_ 402
Lay of Ancient Rome _Thomas R. Ybarra_ 753
Lay of the Deserted Influenzaed _N. Cholmondeley-Pennell_ 746
Lay of the Love Lorn, The _Aytoun, William E._, and _Martin_ 537
Lay of the Lover's Friend, The _William E. Aytoun_ 88
Lazy Roof, The _Gelett Burgess_ 855
Learned Negro, The _Unknown_ 274
Leedle Yawcob Straus _Charles Follen Adams_ 940
Legend of the First Cam-u-el, The _Arthur Guiterman_ 888
Legend of Heinz von Stein, The _Charles Godfrey Leland_ 49
Life _Unknown_ 783
Life in Laconics _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 311
Like to the Thundering Tone _Bishop Corbet_ 848
Lilies _Don Marquis_ 379
Limericks _Carolyn Wells_ 835
Lines _Unknown_ 456
Lines by an Old Fogy _Unknown_ 882
Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon _Unknown_ 830
Lines Written After a Battle _Unknown_ 456
Literary Lady, The _Richard Brinsley Sheridan_ 278
Little Billee _W. M. Thackeray_ 546
Little Breeches _John Hay_ 657
Little Goose, A _Eliza Sproat Turner_ 938
Little Mamma _Charles Henry Webb_ 943
Little Orphant Annie _James Whitcomb Riley_ 934
Little Peach, The _Eugene Field_ 931
Little Star, The _Unknown_ 476
Little Swirl of Vers Libre, A _Thomas R. Ybarra_ 380
Little Vagabond, The _William Blake_ 269
Llama, The _Hilaire Belloc_ 906
Logic _Unknown_ 809
Logical English _Unknown_ 809
Lord Guy _George F. Warren_ 191
Lost Pleiad, The _Arthur Reed Ropes_ 161
Lost Spectacles, The _Unknown_ 287
Love is Like a Dizziness _James Hogg_ 218
Lovers and a Reflection _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 372
Love Knot, The _Nora Perry_ 124
Lovelilts _Marion Hill_ 824
Love Playnt, A _Godfrey Turner_ 408
Love's Moods and Tenses _Unknown_ 812
Lucy Lake _Newton Mackintosh_ 463
Lugubrious Whing-Whang, The _James Whitcomb Riley_ 858
Lunar Stanzas _Henry Coggswell Knight_ 841
Lying _Thomas Moore_ 86
M
Madame Sans Souci _Unknown_ 951
Malbrouck _Father Prout_ 28
Man, The _Stephen Crane_ 248
Man in the Moon, The _James Whitcomb Riley_ 856
Man of Words, A _Unknown_ 790
Man's Place in Nature _Unknown_ 89
Manila _Eugene Fitch Ware_ 949
March to Moscow, The _Robert Southey_ 775
Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream _Oliver Herford_ 30
Martial in London _Mortimer Collins_ 316
Martin Luther at Potsdam _Barry Pain_ 404
Maud _Henry S. Leigh_ 188
Maudle-in-Ballad _Unknown_ 510
Mavrone _Arthur Guiterman_ 378
Meeting of the Clabberhuses, The _Sam Walter Foss_ 244
Melton Mowbray Pork-Pie, A _Richard le Gallienne_ 472
Mendax _Lessing_ 369
Messed Damozel, The _Charles Hanson Towne_ 471
Mexican Serenade _Arthur Guiterman_ 902
Microbe, The _Hilaire Belloc_ 907
Midsummer Madness _Unknown_ 377
Mighty Must, The _W. S. Gilbert_ 376
Millennuim, The _Robert Browning_ 60
Minguillo's Kiss _Unknown_ 122
Miniver Cheevy _Edward Arlington Robinson_ 229
Misadventures at Margate _Richard Harris Barham_
(_Thomas Ingoldsby_) 558
Mis' Smith _Albert Bigelow Paine_ 119
Modern Hiawatha, The _Unknown_ 482
Modest Wit, A _Selleck Osborn_ 260
"Mona Lisa" _John Kendrick Bangs_ 95
Money _Jehan du Pontalais_ 323
More Impressions _Oscuro Wildgoose_ 509
More Walks _Richard Harris Barham_ (_Thomas Ingoldsby_) 950
Mr. Finney's Turnip _Unknown_ 847
Mrs. Smith _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 155
Musical Ass, The _Tomaso de Yriarte_ 249
My Angeline _Harry B. Smith_ 158
My Aunt's Spectre _Mortimer Collins_ 600
My Dream _Unknown_ 853
My Feet _Gelett Burgess_ 855
My Foe _Unknown_ 529
My Love and My Heart _Henry S. Leigh_ 204
My Madeline _Walter Parke_ 773
My Mistress's Boots _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 153
N
Naughty Darkey Boy, The _Unknown_ 927
Nemesis _J. W. Foley_ 94
Nephelidia _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 459
"Never Forget Your Parents" _Franklin P. Adams_ 394
New Church Organ, The _Will Carleton_ 162
New Song, A _John Gay_ 754
New Version, The _W. J. Lampton_ 90
New Vestments _Edward Lear_ 866
Ninety-Nine in the Shade _Rossiter Johnson_ 781
Nirvana _Unknown_ 900
No! _Thomas Hood_ 792
No Fault in Women _Robert Herrick_ 166
Nocturnal Sketch, A _Thomas Hood_ 823
Nongtongpaw _Charles Dibdin_ 808
Nonsense Verses _Charles Lamb_ 848
Nora's Vow _Sir Walter Scott_ 159
Northern Farmer _Lord Tennyson_ 354
North, East, South and West _Unknown_ 403
Nothing _Richard Porson_ 786
Nothing to Wear _William Allen Butler_ 148
Noureddin, The Son of the Shah _Clinton Scollard_ 199
Nun, The _Leigh Hunt_ 206
Nursery Legend, A _Henry S. Leigh_ 937
Nursery Rhymes à la Mode _Unknown_ 509
Nursery Song in Pidgin English _Unknown_ 530
O
Ocean Wanderer, The _Unknown_ 879
Ode for a Social Meeting _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 833
Ode for a Social Meeting _Leigh Hunt_ 834
Ode to a Bobtailed Cat _Unknown_ 936
Ode to the Human Heart _Laman Blanchard_ 784
Ode to Tobacco _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 732
Ode to Work in Springtime _Thomas R. Ybarra_ 47
O D V _Unknown_ 788
Of a Certain Man _Sir John Harrington_ 282
Of All the Men _Thomas Moore_ 370
Of a Precise Tailor _Sir John Harrington_ 322
Of Baiting the Lion _Owen Seaman_ 893
Officer Brady _Robert W. Chambers_ 232
Oh, My Geraldine _F. C. Burnand_ 180
Old Bachelor, An _Tudor Jenks_ 98
Old Fashioned Fun _W. M. Thackery_ 33
Old Grimes _Albert Gorton Greene_ 766
Old Line Fence, The _A. W. Bellaw_ 760
Old Man and Jim, The _James Whitcomb Riley_ 678
Old Song by New Singers, An _A. C. Wilkie_ 506
Old Stuff _Bert Leston Taylor_ 48
On the Aristocracy of Harvard _Dr. Samuel G. Bushnell_ 949
On a Bad Singer _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 364
On Butler's Monument _Rev. Samuel Wesley_ 370
On a Deaf Housekeeper _Unknown_ 76
On the Death of a Favorite Cat _Thomas Gray_ 557
On the Democracy of Yale _Dean Jones_ 949
On the Downtown Side of an Uptown Street _William Johnstone_ 79
On a Full-Length Portrait of Beau Marsh _Lord Chesterfield_ 369
On Hearing a Lady Praise a Certain Rev. Doctor's Eyes
_George Outram_ 368
On Knowing When to Stop _L. J. Bridgman_ 312
On a Magazine Sonnet _Russell Hilliard Loines_ 281
On the Oxford Carrier _John Milton_ 780
On Scotland _Cleveland_ 369
On a Sense of Humor _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 367
On Taking a Wife _Thomas Moore_ 367
Only Seven _Henry S. Leigh_ 543
Optimism _Newton Mackintosh_ 445
Origin of Ireland, The _Unknown_ 106
Original Lamb, The _Unknown_ 477
Orphan Born _Robert J. Burdette_ 903
Oubit, The _Charles Kingsley_ 330
O-u-g-h _Charles Battell Loomis_ 761
Ould Doctor Mack _Alfred Perceval Graves_ 717
Our Hymn _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 374
Our Native Birds _Nathan Haskell Dole_ 53
Our Traveller _Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell_ 445
Out of Sight, Out of Mind _Barnaby Googe_ 807
Out Upon it _Sir John Suckling_ 218
Over the Way _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 125
Owen Seaman _Louis Untermeyer_ 480
Owl and the Pussy Cat, The _Edward Lear_ 901
Owl-Critic, The _James Thomas Fields_ 309
P
Paddy O'Rafther _Samuel Lover_ 571
Pairing-Time Anticipated _William Cowper_ 212
Palabras Grandiosas _Bayard Taylor_ 407
Panegyric on the Ladies _Unknown_ 803
Paradise _George Birdseye_ 281
Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months, A
_Thomas Hood_ 941
Parson Gray _Oliver Goldsmith_ 741
Parterre, The _E. H. Palmer_ 180
Pensées de Noël _A. D. Godley_ 336
Pessimism _Newton Mackintosh_ 338
Pessimist, The _Ben King_ 358
Pet's Punishment _J. Ashby-Sterry_ 184
Phillis's Age _Matthew Prior_ 332
Philosopher, A _Sam Walter Foss_ 242
Phyllis Lee _Oliver Herford_ 139
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The _Robert Browning_ 603
Pig, The _Robert Southey_ 914
Pilgrims and the Peas, The _John Wolcot_ 621
Pin, A _Ella Wheeler Wilcox_ 132
Plaidie, The _Charles Sibley_ 190
Plain Language from Truthful James _Bret Harte_ 648
Played-Out Humorist, The _W. S. Gilbert_ 25
Plea for Trigamy, A _Owen Seaman_ 68
Pobble Who Has No Toes, The _Edward Lear_ 865
Poe-'em of Passion, A _C. F. Lummis_ 532
Poets at Tea, The _Barry Pain_ 486
Polka Lyric, A _Barclay Philips_ 832
Poor Dear Grandpapa _D'Arcy W. Thompson_ 950
Pope, The _Chas. Lever_ 70
Pope and the Net, The _Robert Browning_ 286
Portrait, A _John Keats_ 496
Positivists, The _Mortimer Collins_ 315
Post Captain, The _Charles E. Carryl_ 615
Post-Impressionism _Bert Leston Taylor_ 235
Practical Joker, The _W. S. Gilbert_ 26
Prayer of Cyrus Brown, The _Sam Walter Foss_ 54
Prehistoric Smith _David Law Proudfit_ 83
Presto Furioso _Owen Seaman_ 417
Prior to Miss Belle's Appearance _James Whitcomb Riley_ 925
Promissory Note, The _Bayard Taylor_ 429
Propinquity Needed _Charles Battell Loomis_ 51
Purple Cow, The _Gelett Burgess_ 948
Q
Quaker's Meeting, The _Samuel Lover_ 576
Quest of the Purple Cow, The _Hilda Johnson_ 100
Questions with Answers _Unknown_ 810
Quite by Chance _Frederick Langbridge_ 205
R
Razor Seller, The _John Wolcot_ 297
Reasons for Drinking _Dr. Henry Aldrich_ 364
Recruit, The _Robert W. Chambers_ 230
Reflections on Cleopathera's Needle _Cormac O'Leary_ 105
Rejected "National Hymns," The _Robert H. Newell_
(_Orpheus C. Kerr_) 387
Religion of Hudibras, The _Samuel Butler_ 271
Remedy Worse than the Disease, A _Matthew Prior_ 365
Report of an Adjudged Case _William Cowper_ 82
Retired Cat, The _William Cowper_ 910
Retired Pork-Butcher and the Spook _G. E. Farrow_ 685
Retort, The _George Pope Morris_ 174
Rev. Gabe Tucker's Remarks _Unknown_ 312
Reuben _Ph[oe]be Cary_ 493
Rhyme for Musicians, A _E. Lemke_ 772
Rhyme of the Rail _John G. Saxe_ 748
Rhymester, A _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 363
Riddle, A _Unknown_ 951
Rigid Body Sings _J. C. Maxwell_ 483
Robert Frost _Louis Untermeyer_ 479
Robinson Crusoe's Story _Charles E. Carryl_ 617
Rollicking Mastodon, The _Arthur Macy_ 853
Romance of the Carpet, The _Robert J. Burdette_ 674
Romaunt of Humpty Dumpty The _Henry S. Leigh_ 411
Rondeau, The _Austin Dobson_ 782
Rondelay, A _Peter A. Motteux_ 41
Rory O'More; or, Good Omens _Samuel Lover_ 141
Ruling Passion, The _Alexander Pope_ 285
Rural Bliss _Anthony C. Deane_ 97
Rural Raptures _Unknown_ 450
S
Sabine Farmer's Serenade, The _Father Prout_ 214
Said Opie Reed _Julian Street_ and _Montgomery Flagg_ 948
Sailor's Yarn, A _James Jeffrey Roche_ 680
Sainte Margerie _Unknown_ 477
Salad _Mortimer Collins_ 436
Salad _Sydney Smith_ 93
Sally in Our Alley _Henry Carey_ 182
Sally Simkin's Lament _Thomas Hood_ 800
Same Old Story _Harry B. Smith_ 360
Sary "Fixes Up" Things _Albert Bigelow Paine_ 192
Saying, Not Meaning _William Basil Wake_ 666
School _James Kenneth Stephen_ 60
Schoolmaster, The _Charles Stuart Calverley_ 64
Scientific Proof _J. W. Foley_ 880
Secret Combination, The _Ellis Parker Butler_ 209
Select Passages from a Coming Poet _F. Anstey_ 410
Senex to Matt. Prior _James Kenneth Stephen_ 362
Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe _H. C. Bunner_ 40
Shipwreck, The _H. Palmer_ 876
Siege of Belgrade, The _Unknown_ 813
Siege of Djklxprwbz, The _Eugene Fitch Ware_ 96
Similes _Unknown_ 791
Simile, A _Matthew Prior_ 262
Sing for the Garish Eye _W. S. Gilbert_ 875
Sir Guy the Crusader _W. S. Gilbert_ 644
Sketch from the Life, A _Arthur Guiterman_ 121
Skipper Treson's Ride _John Greenleat Whittier_ 688
Sky-Making _Mortimer Collins_ 314
Smack in School, The _William Pitt Palmer_ 128
Smatterers _Samuel Butler_ 365
Society upon the Stanislaus The _Bret Harte_ 650
"Soldier, Rest!" _Robert J. Burdette_ 374
Some Hallucinations _Lewis Carroll_ 874
Some Ladies _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 367
Some Little Bug _Roy Atwell_ 77
Somewhere-in-Europe-Wocky _F. G. Hartswick_ 482
Song _Joseph Addison_ 751
Song _George Canning_ 84
Song _John Donne_ 330
Song _Richard Lovelace_ 241
Song _J. R. Ptanche_ 99
Song of Impossibilities, A _Winthrop Mackintosh Praed_ 327
Song of Sorrow, A _Charles Battell Loomis_ 386
Song of the Springtide _Unknown_ 527
"Songs Without Words" _Robert J. Burdette_ 413
Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House _Unknown_ 851
Sonnet to a Clam _John G. Saxe_ 734
Sorrows of Werther, The _W. M. Thackeray_ 140
'Spacially Jim _Bessie Morgan_ 129
Spirk Throll-Derisiye _James Whitcomb Riley_ 855
Splendid Fellow, A _H. C. Dodge_ 267
Splendid Shilling, The _John Philips_ 316
St. Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes _Abraham á Sancta-Clara_ 251
Stanzas to Pale Ale _Unknown_ 732
St. Patrick of Ireland, My Dear! _William Maginn_ 101
Story of Prince Agib, The _W. S. Gilbert_ 641
Strictly Germ-Proof _Arthur Guiterman_ 87
Strike Among the Poets, A _Unknown_ 785
Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink _Rudyard Kipling_ 226
Styx River Anthology _Carolyn Wells_ 521
Surnames _James Smith_ 804
Susan _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 157
Susan Simpson _Unknown_ 774
Sympathy _Reginald Heber_ 270
T
Takings _Thomas Hood, Jr._ 817
Tam o' Shanter _Robert Burns_ 623
Ternary of Littles, Upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady, A
_Robert Herrick_ 806
Terrible Infant, A _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 156
'Tis Midnight _Unknown_ 843
'Tis Sweet to Roam _Unknown_ 878
That Gentle Man from Boston Town _Joaquin Miller_ 629
That Texan Cattle Man _Joaquin Miller_ 288
Thingumbob, The _Unknown_ 882
Then Ag'in _Sam Walter Foss_ 357
"There's a Bower of Bean-vines" _Ph[oe]be Cary_ 493
There Was a Little Girl _Unknown_ 926
Third Proposition, The _Madeline Bridges_ 345
Thought, A _James Kenneth Stephen_ 248
Three Black Crows, The _John Byrom_ 254
Three Children _Unknown_ 843
Three Jovial Huntsmen _Unknown_ 878
Thursday _Frederick E. Weatherly_ 313
Tim Turpin _Thomas Hood_ 795
To a Blockhead _Alexander Pope_ 362
To a Capricious Friend _Joseph Addison_ 368
To a Fly _John Wolcot_ 734
To an Importunate Host _Unknown_ 534
To a Slow Walker and Quick Eater _Lessing_ 369
To a Thesaurus _Franklin P. Adams_ 825
To Be or Not To Be _Unknown_ 891
To Doctor Empiric _Ben Jonson_ 365
To Julia in Shooting Togs _Owen Seaman_ 418
To Marie _John Bennett_ 852
To Minerva _Thomas Hood_ 49
To My Empty Purse _Geoffrey Chaucer_ 58
To My Nose _Alfred A. Forrester_ (_Alfred Croquill_) 832
Too Late _Fitz Hugh Ludlow_ 348
To Ph[oe]be _W. S. Gilbert_ 28
To the Pliocene Skull _Bret Harte_ 46
To the Portrait of "A Gentleman" _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 236
To the Terrestrial Globe _W. S. Gilbert_ 256
Town of Nice, The _Herman C. Merivale_ 438
Tragic Story, A _W. M. Thackeray_ 850
Transcendentalism _Unknown_ 92
Translated Way _Franklin P. Adams_ 427
Travesty of Miss Fanshawe's Enigma _Horace Mayhew_ 763
Triolet _Paul T. Gilbert_ 120
Triolet, The _William Ernest Henley_ 782
True to Poll _F. C. Burnand_ 275
Trust in Women _Unknown_ 276
Truth About Horace, The _Eugene Field_ 50
Tu Quoque _Austin Dobson_ 146
Turtle and the Flamingo, The _James Thomas Fields_ 923
Turvey Top _William Sawyer_ 884
'Twas Ever Thus _Henry S. Leigh_ 544
Twelve Articles _Dean Swift_ 279
Twins, The _Henry S. Leigh_ 108
Two Fishes _Unknown_ 188
Two Men _Edwin Arlington Robinson_ 35
Two Old Bachelors, The _Edward Lear_ 868
U
Uffia _Harriet R. White_ 877
Ultimate Joy, The _Unknown_ 32
Unattainable, The _Harry Romaine_ 141
Uncle Simon and Uncle Jim _Charles Farrar Browne_
(_Artemus Ward_) 849
Under the Mistletoe _George Francis Schults_ 196
Unexpected Fact, An _Edward Cannon_ 844
Unfortunate Miss Bailey _Unknown_ 702
Unsatisfied Yearning _R. K. Munkittrick_ 889
Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party _Thomas Moore_ 367
Up the Spout _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 460
Usual Way, The _Frederick E. Weatherly_ 200
V
Vague Story, A _Walter Parke_ 74
V-A-S-E, The _James Jeffrey Roche_ 227
Village Choir, The _Unknown_ 528
Villanelle of Things Amusing _Gelett Burgess_ 73
Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves _William Ernest Henley_ 399
Viper, The _Hilaire Belloc_ 906
Visit from St. Nicholas, A _Clement Clarke Moore_ 935
W
Walrus and the Carpenter, The _Lewis Carroll_ 896
The Whango Tree _Unknown_ 842
War: A-Z, The _John R. Edwards_ 829
War Relief _Oliver Herford_ 901
Ways and Means _Lewis Carroll_ 870
Way to Arcady, The _H. C. Bunner_ 201
Wedding, A _Sir John Suckling_ 704
Wedding, The _Thomas Hood, Jr._ 412
Well of St. Keyne, The _Robert Southey_ 584
What is a Woman Like? _Unknown_ 118
What's In a Name? _R. K. Munkittrick_ 347
What's My Thought Like? _Thomas Moore_ 370
What Will We Do? _Robert J. Burdette_ 311
Whatever Is, Is Right _Laman Blanchard_ 786
What Mr. Robinson Thinks _James Russell Lowell_ 292
Whenceness of the Which _Unknown_ 476
When Lovely Woman _Phoebe Cary_ 494
When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas _W. M. Thackeray_ 34
When the Frost Is on the Punkin _James Whitcomb Riley_ 34
Which Is Which _John Byrom_ 368
Whistler, The _Unknown_ 133
Why? _H. P. Stevens_ 214
Why Don't the Men Propose? _Thomas Haynes Bayly_ 131
Why Doth a Pussy Cat? _Surges Johnson_ 895
Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles _Frances M. Whicher_ 195
Widow Malone, The _Charles Lever_ 126
Wife, A _Richard Brinsley Sheridan_ 366
Wife, The _Phoebe Cary_ 494
William Brown of Oregon _Joaquin Miller_ 653
Willows, The _Bret Harte_ 423
Willow-Tree, The _W. M. Thackeray_ 439
Wing Tee Wee _J. P. Denison_ 139
Winter Dusk _R. K. Munkittrick_ 42
Within and Without _James Russell Lowell_ 359
Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, The
_W. M. Thackeray_ 552
Woman's Will _John G. Saxe_ 362
Wonders of Nature _Unknown_ 470
Wordsworthian Reminiscence _Unknown_ 470
Wreck of the "Julie Plante" _William Henry Drummond_ 662
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos _Lord Byron_ 80
Y
Yak, The _Hilaire Belloc_ 906
Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" _W. S. Gilbert_ 632
Yonghy-Bonghy Ho, The _Edward Lear_ 859
Young Gazelle _Walter Parke_ 918
Young Lady of Niger, The _Unknown_ 948
Young Lochinvar _Unknown_ 381
Youth and Art _Robert Browning_ 339
Z
Zealless Nylographer, The _Mary Mapes Dodge_ 759
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Transcriber's Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
It is not always obvious if verses in the original have been split
through pagination; if there is doubt the split has been retained.
'Ode for a Social Meeting' has some words struck out and replaced
above with alternatives. This has been represented with the
struck-out words underlined in red and the alternate words in boxes
above. The font has been switched to monospaced to accurately align
the two.
Both "Geoffrey" and "Goeffrey" are used as spellings for Geoffrey
Chaucer's name without obvious reason. The spelling has been
standardised here to the more commonly accepted (today) version
"Geoffrey".
The title of "Spirk, Troll-Derisive" uses both "Troll" and "Throll"
throughout the original text. The spelling has been standardised
here to "Troll".
"There is no poem in the original beginning 'Oh! Weary mother' and
it appears to have been an error. The page reference, '000,' is
from the original."