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A Nonsense Anthology

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ABSTEMIA Gelett Burgess Abstrosophy Gelett Burgess Aestivation O. W. Holmes Ahkond of Swat, The Edward Lear Alone As with my Hat upon my Head Dr. Johnson Auld Wife, The C. S. Calverley Aunt Eliza Col. D. Streamer Autumn Leaves, The

BABY AND MARY Ballade of the Nurserie John Twig Ballad of Bedlam Ballad of High Endeavor, A Ballad with an Ancient Refrain Bison, The Hilaire Relloc Bloated Biggaboon, The H. Cholmondeley-Pennell Blue Moonshine Francis G. Stokes Boy, The Eugene Field Bulbul, The Owen Seaman Buz, quoth the Blue Fly Ben Jonson

CENTIPEDE, A Chimpanzee, The Oliver Herford Chronicle, A Classic Ode, A Charles Battell Loomis Cobbe's Prophecies Cock and the Bull, The C. S. Calverley Collusion between a Alegaiter and a Water-Snaik J. W. Morris Companions C. S. Calverley Cossimbazar Henry S. Leigh Cow, The Oliver Herford Cruise of the "P. C.", The Cumberbunce, The Paul West

DARWINITY Herman Merivale Dinkey-Bird, The Eugene Field Dirge of the Moolla of Kotal George T. Lanigan

ELDERLY GENTLEMAN, THE George Canning Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Oliver Goldsmith Elegy on Madam Blaize Oliver Goldsmith

FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY Thomas Hood Famous Ballad of the Jubilee Cup, The A. T. Stiller-Couch Father William Ferdinando and Elvira W. S. Gilbert Fin de Siecle Newton Mackintosh Flamingo, The Lewis Gaylord Clark Forcing a Way Frangipanni Frog, The Hilaire Belloc

GENERAL JOHN W. S. Gilbert Gentle Alice Brown W. S. Gilbert Great Man, A Oliver Goldsmith Guinea Pig, The

HEN, THE Oliver Herford Her Dairy Peter Newell Here is the Tale Anthony C. Deane Her Polka Dots Peter Newell Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The A. C. Swinburne Hippopotamus, The Oliver Herford Holiday Task, A Gilbert Abbott a Becket Hunting of the Snark, The Lewis Carroll Hyder iddle diddle dell Hymn to the Sunrise

IF If Half the Road If a Man who Turnips Cries Dr. Johnson I Love to Stand Imitation of Wordsworth Catharine M. Fanshawe Impetuous Samuel Col. D. Streamer Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly Edward Lear Indifference In Immemorian Cuthbert Bede In the Dumps In the Gloaming James C. Bayles In the Night Invisible Bridge, The Gelett Burgess

JABBERWOCKY Lewis Carroll John Jones A. C. Swinburne Jumblies, The Edward Lear

KEN YE AUGHT O' CAPTAIN GROSE Robert Burns Kindness to Animals J. Ashby-Sterry King Arthur

LAYE OF YE WOODPECKORE, YE Henry A. Beers Lazy Roof, The Gelett Burgess Like to the Thundering Tone Bishop Corbet LIMERICKS: Cleopatra, who thought they maligned her Newton Mackintosh H was an indigent H Bruce Porter I'd rather have habits than clothes Gelett Burgess I wish that my room had a door Gelett Burgess There once was a girl of New York Cosmo Monkhouse There once was a man who said "How" There once was an old man of Lyme Cosmo Monkhouse There once was a person of Benin Cosmo Monkhouse There was a dear lady of Eden There was a gay damsel of Lynn There was an old man in a tree Edward Lear There was an Old Man of Kamschatka Edward Lear There was an Old Man of Leghorn Edward Lear There was an old man of St. Bees W. S. Gilbert There was an old man of Thermopylae Edward Lear There was an old man who said "Do" There was an Old Man who said "Hush" Edward Lear There was an Old Man who supposed Edward Lear There was an old person of Ware Edward Lear There was an old person of Wick Edward Lear There was an old person of Woking Edward Lear There was an old stupid who wrote Walter Parke There was once a man with a beard Edward Lear There was a princess of Bengal Walter Parke There was a small boy of Quebec Rudyard Kipling There was a young lady of Milton There was a young lady of Niger There was a young lady of Wales There was a young maid who said "Why" There was a young man at St. Kitts There was a young man of Cohoes Robert J. Burdette There was a young man who was bitten Walter Parke Vers Nonsensiques George du Maurier When that Seint George hadde sleyne ye dragon Lines by a Fond Lover Lines by a Medium Lines by a Person of Quality Alexander Pope Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon Lines to a Young Lady Edward Lear Little Billee W.M. Thackeray Little Peach, The Little Willie Lobster wooed a Lady Crab, A Lovers and a Reflection C.S. Calverley Love Song by a Lunatic Lugubrious Whing-Whang, The James W. Riley Lunar Stanzas H.C. Knight

MALUM OPUS J. Appleton Morgan Man in the Moon, The James W. Riley Martin Luther at Potsdam Barry Pain Martin to his Man Mary Ames Mary Jane Master and Man Mayor of Scuttleton, The Mary Mapes Dodge Melancholia Metaphysics Oliver Herford Minnie and Winnie Lord Tennyson Misfortunes Col. D. Streamer Mr. Finney's Turnip Modern Hiawatha, The Monkey's Glue, The Goldwin Goldsmith Monkey's Wedding The Monsieur McGinté Moon is up, The Moorlands of the Not Mors Iabrochii Muddled Metaphors Tom Hood, Jr. My Dream My Feet Gelett Burgess My Home My Recollectest Thoughts Charles E. Carryl

Nephelidia A. C. Swinburne Noble Tuckman, The Jean Ingelow Nonsense Nonsense Thomas Moore Nonsense Verses Charles Lamb Not I R.L. Stevenson Nyum-Nyum, The

Ocean Wanderer, The Odd to a Krokis Ode to the Human Heart Laman Blanchard Of Baiting the Lion Owen Seaman Oh, my Geraldine F.C. Burnand Oh, Weary Mother Barry Pain On the Oxford Carrier John Milton On the Road Tudor Jenks Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The Edward Lear

PANTHER, THE Parson Gray Oliver Goldsmith Parterre, The E. H. Palmer Personified Sentimental, The Bret Harte Pessimist, The Ben King Platypus, The Oliver Herford Pobble who has no Toes, The Edward Lear Poor Brother Poor Dear Grandpapa D'Arcy W. Thompson Psycholophon Gelett Burgess Puer ex Jersey Purple Cow, The Gelett Burgess Python, The Hilaire Belloc

QUATRAIN

RIDDLE, A Rollicking Mastodon, The Arthur Macy Russian and Turk

SAGE COUNSEL A. T. Quiller-Couch Sailor's Yarn, A James Jeffrey Roche Sea, The Sea-Serpent, The Planché She's All my Fancy Painted Him Lewis Carroll She Went into the Garden S. Foote Shipwreck, The E. H. Palmer Silver Question, The Oliver Herford Sing for the Garish Eye W. S. Gilbert Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting, The Guy W. Carryl Some Geese Oliver Herford Some Verses to Snaix Song of Impossibilities William M. Praed Song of the Screw, The Song on King William III Sonnet Found in a Deserted Madhouse Sorrows of Werther, The W. M. Thackeray Spirk Troll-Derisive James W. Riley Story of Cruel Psamtek, The Story of Prince Agib, The W. S. Gilbert Story of Pyramid Thothmes Story of the Wild Huntsman Heinrich Hoffman Sun, The J. Davis Sunbeam, The Superior Nonsense Verses Susan Swiss Air Bret Harte Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll

Tender-Heartedness Col. D. Streamer Tender Infant, The Dr. Johnson There was a Frog There was a Little Girl H. W. Longfellow There was a Monkey Three Acres of Land Three Children Three Jovial Huntsmen Threnody George T. Lanigan Thy Heart Timid Hortense Peter Newell Timon of Archimedes Charles Battell Loomis 'Tis Midnight and the Setting Sun 'Tis Sweet to Roam To Marie To Mollidusta Planché Transcendentalism Trust in Women Turvey Top Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee

Uffia Harriet R. White Uncle Simon and Uncle Jim Artemui Ward Unsuspected Fact, An Edward Cannon Uprising See the Fitful Lark

Villon's Straight Tip W. E. Henley

Walloping Window-Blind, The Charles E. Carryl Walrus and the Carpenter, The Lewis Carroll Ways and Means Lewis Carroll Whango Tree, The What the Prince of I Dreamt H. Cholmondeley-Pennell When Moonlike ore the Hazure Seas W.M. Thackeray Where Avalanches Wail Wild Flowers Peter Newell Wonderful Old Man, The Wreck of the "Julie Plante" W.H. Drummond

Yak, The Hilaire Belloc Yonghy-Bonghy-BO, The Edward Lear

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