CAROLS OF COCKAYNE.
Reading edition
By Henry S. Leigh.
With Illustrations By Alfred Concanen.
The Third Edition.
Chatto and Windus,
1874.
TO
TOM HOOD, ESQUIRE
THESE VERSES ARE DEDICATED
BY
HIS FRIEND AND WORKFELLOW,
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
CAROLS OF COCKAYNE.
THE TWINS.
UN PAS QUI COÛTE.
THE GIFT OF THE GAB.
BEHIND THE SCENES.
"WITH MUSICAL SOCIETY."
THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
THE OLYMPIC BALL.
THE TWO AGES.
STANZAS TO AN INTOXICATED FLY.
CHIVALRY FOR THE CRADLE.
CLUMSY SERVANT.
A NURSERY LEGEND.
AN ALLEGORY.
OVER THE WATER.
AN UNAPPRECIATED CRICHTON.
ONLY SEVEN.
SEE-SAW.
A WILD HUNT.
A VERY COMMON CHILD.
CROOKED ANSWERS.
A BEGGING LETTER.
A COCKNEY'S EVENING SONG.
ROMANTIC RECOLLECTIONS.
THE MAD GRANDPAPA.
SHABBY-GENTEEL.
CUPID'S MAMMA.
THE CRUSADER'S FAREWELL.
LAYS OF MANY LANDS.
THE SEASONS.
BROKEN VOWS.
WHERE—AND OH! WHERE?
A FIT OF THE BLUES.
ROTTEN ROW.
A LAST RESOURCE.
WEATHERBOUND IN THE SUBURBS.
MIDAS.
TO A TIMID LEECH.
ANACREONTIC,
THE HOUSE ON THE TOP OF A HILL.
MEN I DISLIKE.
NOT QUITE FAIR.
WISDOM AND WATER.
'TWAS EVER THUS.
MY SONG.
BOW BELLS.
THE PLOT OF A ROMANCE.
THE SUBJECTS OF SONG.
AN OLD CYNIC
THE NIGHTINGALE.
TO MY BRAIN.
WANTED, A SINGER.
ANTICIPATIONS.
THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES.
THE OLD WAG.
ETIQUETTE.
A PLAIN ANSWER
IN A HUNDRED YEARS.
EVENING.
MY POLITICS.
THE MISERIES OF GENIUS.
A DAY FOR WISHING.
THE DILIGENCE DRIVER.
THE BALLAD OF THE BARYTONE,
SONGS OF THE SICK ROOM.
THE COMPACT,
THE VISION OF THE ALDERMAN.
EVENING DRESS.
WINE.
MY ULTIMATUM.
ALL ALONE,
"OH NIGHTS AND SUPPERS," ETC.
THE WEATHER.
"ON CORPULENCE."
THE MOONLIGHT SONATA.
OCCASIONAL VERSES.
CHATEAUX D'ESPAGNE.
TO A CERTAIN SOMEBODY.
THE LORD MAYOR'S APOTHEOSIS.
THE END OF AN OLD YEAR,