INDEX.
Reading edition
The authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in small capitals, followed by the Parodies.
Charles S. Calverley.
Notice of 62
Thomas Campbell.
HOHENLINDEN—
"In London, when the Queen was Low," 1882 12
William Cowper.
JOHN GILPIN—
John Bulljohn, 1882 12
Bret Harte.
PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES 135
The Heathen Pass-ee 135
A Kiss in the Dark 136
That Germany Jew, 1874 137
St. Denys of France, 1882 137
That Infidel Earl, 1882 138
Truthful James's Song of the Shirt 139
FURTHER LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES 138
Remarks about Othello, 1876 139
The Bloomin' Flower of Rorty Gulch 140
Thomas Hood.
THE SONG OF THE SHIRT—
Trials and Troubles of a Tourist 114
The Song of the Spurt, 1865 114
The Song of the Sheet, 1865 115
The Song of the Street, 1865 115
The Song of the Stump, 1868 116
The Song of the Flirt, 1872 116
The Song of the Wire, 1874 117
The Song of Love, 1874 117
The Song of the Cram, 1876 118
The Slave of the Pen, 1875 118
The Song of the Sword 118
The Song of a Sot 119
The Song of "The Case," 1875 119
The Song of the Turk in 1877 120
The Song of the Flirt, 1880 120
The Janitor's Song 121
The Song of the Shirk, 1882 121
The Brood on the Beard 122
The Song of the Dirt, 1884 123
The Wail of a Proof-reader, 1884 123
The Bitter Cry, 1884 124
The Song of the Lines, 1873 129
The Song of the Drunkard 129
The Song of the "Prickly Heat," 1859 129
The Song of the Clerk 130
The Song of the Horse, 1844 190
The Lament of Ashland 190
The Song of the Post, 1877 191
The Song of the Dance, 1877 191
The Song of the Soldier's Shirt, 1879 192
The Song of the Pen 192
I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER—
Nursery Reminiscences 124
Parody from "Notes and Queries," 1871 124
Parodies from "The Figaro," 1874 125
Parody from "Idylls of the Rink," 1876 125
Parody from "The Man in the Moon" 130
THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS—
"One more unfortunate, Ploughed for degree," 125
The Hair of the Dead, 1875 126
"Take him up tendahly, Lift him with caah" 126
The Rink of Sighs, 1876 127
The Last Appeal for Place, 1878 127
"One more Unfortunate Author in debt," 1883 128
Boots of Size 128
THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM—
The Fall of the Eminent I. (on Henry Irving) 130
On "The Iron Chest" at the Lyceum Theatre, 1879, "'Twas in the Strand, a great demand" 131
"The sky was clear; no ripple marked" 131
"'Twas in the dim Lyceum pit" 132
MISS KILMANSEGG—
The Thread of Life 132
"Young Ben, he was a nice young man," 1845 133
"By different names were poets called," 1859 133
"A world of whim I wandered in of late," 1878 134
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
A PSALM OF LIFE—
A Psalm of Life Assurance, 1869 63
A Psalm of Fiction 63
Miss M. to Mr. Green 63
Bachelor's Life, 1872 64
The Maiden's Dream of Life 64
On Campbell's "Lives of the Chancellors" 64
A Noble Ambition, 1873 66
The Liberal Psalm of Life, 1875 66
A Psalm of Life at Sixty, 1879 66
"Lives of wealthy men remind us" 67
To my Scout at Breakfast 67
"Wives of great men all remind us" 67
BEWARE!
Take Care 67
Beware! (of the Rink), 1876 67
Beware! (of Lord Salisbury), 1882 68
SONG OF THE SILENT LAND—
Song of the Irish Land, 1881 91
Song of the Oyster Land, 1882 91
THE NORMAN BARON—
The Repentant Baron, 1871 91
THE SKELETON IN ARMOUR—
Calverley's Ode to Tobacco 92
THE SONG OF HIAWATHA—
Hiawatha, a Parody 71
The Song of Drop o' Wather, 1856 72
Song of In-the-Water 75
Song of Lower-Water 75
The Wallflowers, 1872 75
The Song of Nicotine, 1874 76
The Bump Supper, 1874 76
The Legend of Ken-e-li, 1875 77
The Song of the Beetle 77
The Hunting of Cetewayo, 1879 78
Hiawatha's Photographing, 1883 78
The Lawn-Tennis Party at Pepperhanger, 1883 79
The Song of Hiawatha, by Shirley Brooks 80
Howlawaya, the Quack Doctor, 1853 80
Milk-and-Watha 80
Princess Toto 80
Revenge, a Rhythmic Recollection, 1877 80
The Song of Big Ben, 1877 95
The Song of Pahtahquahong, 1881 98
Piamater, by Alfred Longcove 98
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH—
Shortfellow sums up Longfellow 80
EVANGELINE—
The Wagner Festival 80
Picnic-aline, 1855 80, 102
Nauvoo 94
Town and Gown, 1865 102
A Voice from the Far West, 1859 103
Sister Beatrice, 1882 103
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH—
The Village Blacksmith as he is, 1873 68
The Night Policeman, 1875 68
The Village Grog Shop, 1878 69
The English Judge, 1879 69
The Village Beauty, 1880 69
The British M.P., 1883 70
The Village Pax 70
The Village Woodman, 1884 70
EXCELSIOR—
Excelsior in "Pidgin English"—"Topside Galah" 81
"Your name and college," 1863 81
XX—oh lor! 82
The Theatre. "Ugh! Turn him out," 1874 82
"The price of meat was rising fast," 1876 83
"Clean Your Door-step, Marm!" 83
"Egg-shell she o'er," 1876 83
Those Horrid Schools, 1861 84
That Thirty-four, 1880 84
Tobacco Smoke, 1864 84
Obstructionists 85
Endymion (by Lord Beaconsfield), 1880 85
A "Common" Grievance—"The Heath is ours!" 85
"And felt so sore" 86
Sapolio 86
13, Cross Cheaping 87
Pilosagine 87
The Imperceptible 87
Ozokerit, 1870 87
A Plumber, 1883 99
Dyspepsia, 1868 100
The Bicycle, 1880 101
Upidee, Upida 101
Exitium, 1884 101
"Don't bother us!" 1884 101
CURFEW—
The Close of the Season 88
The End, 1880 88
THE BRIDGE—
The Bridge (by Longus Socius), 1866 89
The Rink, 1876 89
The Whitefriargate Bridge, 1872 89
Sunset, 1873 90
"I stood in the Quad at Midnight" 98
What is in an aim, 1865 102
THE SLAVE'S DREAM—
The Swell's Dream, 1883 90
THE SAGA OF KING OLAF—
Queen Sigrid, the Haughty 92
The Saga of the Skaterman, 1884 93
A Modern Saga, 1879 93
The Poets on the Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill (Parodies of Longfellow and Swinburne) 100
The Derby Week, 1878 92
William Morris.
The Monthly Parodies 65
Bayard Taylor.
DIVERSIONS OF THE ECHO CLUB 93
Sir Eggnogg 45
Nauvoo 94
The Sewing Machine 94
Eustace Green 181
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Poet Laureate).
Tennyson's Early Career 3
Tennyson's Lineage 28
Tennyson as Poet Laureate 33
Tennyson's Plagiarisms 181
TIMBUCTOO, The Cambridge Prize Poem, 1829, Thackeray's Parody on 3
LILIAN—
Caroline 5
MARIANA—
Mariana at the Railway Station 4
The Wedding Dress 5
The Bow Street Grange 17
Behind Time 48
The Clerk, 1842 57
The Baggage Man 58
On a Dull old Five-Act Play, 1848 142
The Exiled Londoner, 1848 142
Lord Tomnoddy in the Final Schools, 1868 143
"They lifted him with kindly care" 144
The M.P. on the Railway Committee, 1845 145
The Squatter's 'Baccy Famine, 1880 178
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS—
Recollections of the Stock Exchange 186
A CHARACTER—
A Character (M. Jullien) 24
THE POET—
The Poet of the Period 6
THE BALLAD OF ORIANA—
"Oriana" at the Globe Theatre 4
The Ballad of Boreäna 17
CIRCUMSTANCE—
Tit for Tat 56
Circumstance, 1848 145
THE MERMAN—
The Laureate 5
THE MERMAID—
The Mermaid at the Aquarium 6
MARGARET—
Mary Ann 9
THE TWO VOICES—
The Three Voices 50
The Two Voices, as heard by Jones 186
ŒNONE—
The New Œnone 16
THE SISTERS—
Matrimonial Expediency 7
THE PALACE OF ART—
"I built myself a high-art pleasure-house." 18
"I built my Cole a lordly pleasure-house," 1862 145
"I built myself a lordly picture-place," 1877 146
LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE—
Lady Clara V. de V. 7
Baron Alfred Vere de Vere 27
Baron Alfred, T. de T. 49
Mrs. Biggs, of Brunswick Square 56
The Premier's Lament 56
Captain Falcon of the Guards, 1848 148
The Russian Czar, 1854 148
Rustic Admiration of Lady Clara, 1868 149
Lady Clara in the South, 1870 149
The Vicar's Surplice, 1875 149
Rhyme for Rogers, 1884 166
A Parody Advertisement of Velveteen 185
THE MAY QUEEN—
The Biter Bit 9
The May Queen Corrected, 1879 10
A Farewell Ode to the Brompton Boilers 10
The "May" of the Queen (Judge May) 11
The Play King (Henry Irving) 11
The Opening of the New Law Courts 12
The Queen of the Fête 19
Election's Eve 20
"I'm to be One of the Peers, Vicky" 36
August the Twelfth, 1869 144
A May Dream of the Female Examination 149
The Dray Queen 150
The May Queen in the Existing Climate 151
The Sight-Seeing Emperor, 1877 152
The Welsher's Lament, 1878 152
The Modern May Queen, 1881 152
The Penge Mystery Trial, 1877 152
The May Exam. (By A. Pennysong) 153
The Premier's Lament, 1884 154
The New Lord Mayor, 1881 154
The Lord Mayor to the Lady Mayoress, 1884 154
The Last Lord Mayor to his Favourite Beadle 155
The Eve of the General Election, 1884 155
A Tory Lord on the Franchise Bill, 1884 155
On a Debate on the Franchise Bill, 1884 155
The Premier to Mrs. Gladstone, 1884 156
The Promise of May, 1882 156
The May Queen of 1879 162
"Awake I must, and early," 1861 186
Baron Honour, 1884 186
THE LOTUS EATERS—
The Whitebait Eaters 8
The Ministers at Greenwich 61
A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN—
"I read, before I fell into a doze" 8
"Long time I fed my eyes on that strange scene" 20
A Dream of Queer Women 54
A Dream of Fair Women, and others 55
A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN—
"Dreaming, methought I heard the Laureate's Song" 55
A Dream of Great Players (Lawn Tennis) 160
The Dream of Unfair Women 181
"YOU ASK ME WHY, THO' ILL AT EASE"—
The Laureate in Parliament 54
The New Umbrella, 1882 162
"OF OLD SAT FREEDOM ON THE HEIGHTS"—
"Not Old, Stood Pam Upon the Heights," 1861 163
TITHONUS—
Parody from "The World," 1879 60
Tithonus in Oxford 60
Lord Beaconsfield as Tithonus, 1879 163
LOCKSLEY HALL—
"Cousins, leave me here a little, in Lawn Tennis you excel" 15
Bacchanalian Dreamings 15
The Lay of the Lovelorn 21
Vauxhall 23
Sir Rupert, the Red 24
Cousin Amy's View, 1878 50
Locksley Hall, before he passed his "Smalls" 163
Battue shooting, 1884 164
Granny's House, 1854 177
Codgers' Hall, 1876 185
GODIVA—
The Modern Lady Godiva 13
Madame Warton as "Godiva," 1848 164
THE LORD OF BURLEIGH—
Unfortunate Miss Bailey 47
Parody in "Figaro" 61
The Lord Burghley, 1884 160
The Faithless Peeler, 1848 161
The Lord of Burleigh to the Land Bill, 1881 161
A Burlington House Ballad, 1884 162
THE VOYAGE—
The Excursion Train 61
Parody from "Kottabos," 1875 165
A FAREWELL—
"Flow down, cold Rivulet, to the Sea"—
"Bite on, thou Pertinacious Flea" 30
"Rise up, cold Reverend, to a See" 30
Ode to Aldgate Pump 30
"Flow down, false Rivulet, to the Sea" 30
THE BEGGAR MAID—
The Undergrad 30
BREAK, BREAK, BREAK—
To my Scout 14
The Bather's Dirge 15
The Musical Pitch 15
Tennyson at Billingsgate in 1882 15
Parody from "Snatches of Song" 24
Parody from "Punch's Almanac," 1884 24
The Unsuccessful Stock Exchange Speculator 60
Hot, Hot, Hot 165
Pelt, Pelt, Pelt 165
Wake, Wake, Wake, 1884 166
To Professor O. C. Marsh, U.S. 181
ENOCH ARDEN—
Enoch Arden, continued, 1866 166
Enoch's "Hard 'Un" 167
THE BROOK—
The Tinker 30
The Rinker 31
Song of the Irwell 57
Keeping Term after Commemoration 168
The Maiden's Lament, 1874 168
"Flow down, old River, to the Sea" 169
Our River (Old Father Thames), 1884 169
The (North) Brook 169
The Plumber and Builder 178
On Mr. Gladstone's Visit to Scotland (Liberal Lyrics, 1854) 179
The Train 179
The Mill, 1884 179
THE PRINCESS—
The Princess Ida 52
"HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR, DEAD"—
"Home they brought her Lap-dog Dead" 29
"Home they brought her Sailor Son" 29
"Home they brought Montmorres, dead" 29
"Home they brought the Gallant Red" 57
"Home they brought the news with dread" 58
"Lay the stern old warrior down," 1865 170
"Home they brought her husband, 'tight'" 170
"Home the 'Worrier' comes! We read" 170
TEARS, IDLE TEARS—
Peers, Idle Peers, 1868 170
Tears, Idle Tears, 1866 181
(To the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole).
"ASK ME NO MORE."
To an Importunate Host 170
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE—
Charge of the Light (Irish) Brigade 31
"The Two Hundred" Mechanical Engineers in Dublin, 1865 37
The Half Hundred (of Coals) 37
The Doctor's Heavy Brigade 38
The Charge of the Black Brigade, 1865 38
At the Magdalen Ground 39
Charge of the Fair Brigade 39
The Charge of the "Bustle" 40
On the Six Hundredth Representation of "Our Boys" at the Vaudeville Theatre 40
The Vote of Six Millions 41
The Charge of the "Rad" Brigade 41
A Lay of the Law Courts 41
The Latest Charge (against Mr. Biggar, M. P., for Breach of Promise of Marriage) 41
The Charge of the Gownsmen at the Anti-Tobacco Lecture 52
The Charge of the Light Ballet 53
Tragic Episode in an Omnibus 53
Michael Drayton on the Battle of Agincourt 171
The "Light" Cavalier's Charge 171
The Charge of the Court Brigade, 1874 171
The Battle of Bartlemy's, 1875 172
Charge of the Light Brigade at the Alexandra Palace Banquet, 1875 72
On the Rink, 1876 173
"Half a Duck! Half a Duck!" 173
"Half a League!" (Tea Advertisement) 185
A WELCOME TO ALEXANDRA—
Britannia's Welcome to the Illustrious Stranger, Ismail Pasha, 1869 35
On a Statue to the late John Brown 35
A Welcome to Alexandra (Palace) 61
On the Opening of the Alexandra Palace, May, 1875 173
THE GRANDMOTHER—
Hard Times 58
Parody in "Snatches of Song" 59
"And Willy with Franchise Horn," 1884 168
IN THE GARDEN AT SWAINSTON—
In the Schools at Oxford 32
THE VICTIM—
The Victim 46
The Prophet Enoch, 1860 47
THE HIGHER PANTHEISM—
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell 51
THE VOICE AND THE PEAK—
The Voice and the Pique, 1874 178
"FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL"—
"Terrier in my Granny's Hall" 174
IN MEMORIAM—
Richmond, 1856 25
In Immemoriam 29
In Memoriam, £. s. d., Baden-Baden 48
Punch to Salisbury 48
The Rinker's Solace 48
The Lawyer's Soliloquy 61
"I Hold this Truth with one who sings" 61
Ozokerit 174
In Memoriam Technicam, 1865 174
In Memoriam; a Collie Dog, 1884 186
"RING OUT WILD BELLS TO THE WILD SKY."
"Wring out the Clouds," 1872 174
"Ring out, Glad Bells," 1876 175
"Ring out Fool's Bells," 1881 175
"COME INTO THE GARDEN, MAUD."
"Nay, I cannot come into the garden just now" 7
Maud in the Garden 25
Anti-Maud 25
The Poet's Birth, a Mystery, 1859 175
"Chirrup, chirp, chirp, chirp twitter" 176
Midsummer Madness.—"I am a Hearthrug" 176
"Birds in St. Stephen's Garden" 176
Song by Burne-Jones, "Come into my Studio, Maud," 1878 179
Come into "The Garden," Maud (Covent Garden) 1882 180
THE IDYLLS OF THE KING—
Voyage de Guillaume (Sept. 1883) 13
The Last Peer, December, 1883 27
Parody of the Morte d'Arthur, by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell 32
The Coming K—— 35
Vilien 34
Goanveer 34
The Very Last Idyll 44
Sir Tray; an Arthurian Idyll 44
Sir Eggnogg 45
The Players; a Lawn Tennisonian Idyll 45
An Idyll of Phatte and Leene, 1873 181
Eustace Green, or the Medicine Bottle 181
The Passing of M'Arthur, 1881 182
Garnet. (An Idyll of the Queen), 1882 182
Jack Sprat. 1884 182
The Quest of the Holy Poker, 1870 183
Willie and Minnie, 1876 183
The Latest Tournament, 1872 183
The Princes' Noses, 1880 183
On the Hill; a Fragment, 1882 183
Tory Revels, 1882 183
London to Leicester; a Bicycling Idyll, 1882 183
The Lost Tennisiad, 1883 183
The Lay of the Seventh Tournament, 1883 56, 183
"LATE, LATE, SO LATE," (GUINEVERE)—
Mala-Fide Travellers, 1872 144
THE WAR ("RIFLEMEN FORM")—
"Into them, Gown!" 1861 147
1865-1866—"I STOOD ON A TOWER IN THE WET"—
1867-1868—"I sat in a 'Bus in the Wet" 46
"Tennyson Stood in the Wet" 46
"I Stood by a River in the Wet," 1868 180
ON A SPITEFUL LETTER—
The Spiteful Letter, 1874 59
From Algernon C. Swinburne 60
From Walt Whitman 60
HANDS ALL ROUND—
Slops all Round 43
Drinks all Round 43, 186
Northampton's Freemen 43
Pots all Round 186
Tennysonian Toryism 186
Cheers all Round 186
Howls all Round 186
RIZPAH—
Rizpah, 1883 184
THE REVENGE, A BALLAD OF THE FLEET—
Retribution, a Ballad of the Sloe 42
DE PROFUNDIS—
"Awfully Deep, my Boy, Awfully Deep" 52
"THOSE THAT OF LATE HAD FLEETED FAR AND FAST,"
Prefatory Sonnet to the "Nineteenth Century."
The Last Hat Left.
"Those low-born cubs who sneaked away so fast" 183
MONTENEGRO—
The City Montenegro, 1880 183
ACHILLES OVER THE TRENCH—
A Parody on 47
DESPAIR; A DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE, 1881—
Disgust; a Dramatic Monologue, 1881 184
THE POETASTERS, A DRAMATIC CANTATA, 1884 86
THE PROMISE of MAY—
Reprint of the Play-bill, dated November, 1882 157
Parodies on the Play-bill 159
The Marquis of Queensberry on "The Promise of May" 158
Miscellaneous Parodies on Tennyson.
A Laureate's Log. September, 1883 49
Papa's Theory 57
"The Bugle calls in Bayreuth's Halls" 57
The Amiable Dun, a Fragment 61
Early Spring, in an American Paper 62
"In Hungerford, did some wise man," 1844 145
Mrs. Henry Fawcett on the Education of Women 150
(Apropos of a Parody on the Collegiate Examinations of Female Students.)
"British Birds," by Mortimer Collins 186
Reverend Charles Wolfe.
THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE 105
"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note."
The disputed origin of the Poem 105
"Ni le son du tambour ... ni la marche funèbre" 106
"Not a sous had he got, not a guinea or note" 107
"Not a trap was heard, or a Charley's note" 108
Ode on the Death and Burial of the Constitution, 1832—
"Not a moan was heard—not a funeral note" 108
On the threatened Death of John O'Connell 108
"He looked glum when he heard, by a friendly note," 1864 109
"Not a laugh was heard, not a joyous note," 109
The Flight of O'Neill, the Invader of Canada 109
Running him in, by a Good Templar 110
"Not a hiss was heard, not an angry yell," 1875 110
The Burial of the Title "Queen," 1876 110
On the Downfall of the Beaconsfield Government, 1880 111
"Not a hum was heard, not a jubilant note" 111
"Not a sigh was heard, not a tear-drop fell" 111
The Burial of the Masher, 1883 112
"He felt highly absurd, as he put on his coat" 112
"Not a mute one word at the funeral spoke" 113
A Moonlight Flit 140
The Burial of Pantomime, 1846-7 141
The Burial of Philip Van Artevelde (Princess's Theatre) 141
The Burial of the Bills, 1850 141
A Tale of a Tub 141
The Death of the "Childerses," 1884 187
The Burial of "The Season," 1884 187
The Burial of my Fellow Lodger's Banjo 187
The Fate of General Gordon, 1884 187
One more Victim at Monte Carlo 187
The Burial of the Duke of Wellington 188
The Burial of the Bachelor 188
The Marriage of Sir F. Boore 188
Working Men at the Health Exhibition 188
The Removal of the House of Lords 188
The Spinster Householder Martyr 188
The Murder of a Beethoven Sonata 189
The Burial of the Pauper 189
The Fate of the Franchise Bill, 1884 189
The Defeated Cricket Eleven 190
The Marriage of Sir John Smith, 1854 190
