Volume 5 — End of Volume V.

INDEX.

The Authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in italics, followed by the Parodies. The Authors of the Parodies are named in italics.

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Joseph Addison.

On the Immortality of the Soul. “Cato” 311

Mitchell’s Soliloquy. 1729 311

The Belle’s Soliloquy. J. P. Roberdeau 312

Lady Townley’s Soliloquy 312

“Ovid, it must be so--thou reason’st well” 312

Joseph Addison’s prose writings parodied in Posthumous Parodies. 1814 312

Rev. Richard Harris Barham.

The Ingoldsby Legends 293

Misadventures at Margate 293

The Vulgar Little Boy 294

Misadventures at the Mansion House. Truth 295

The Little Vulgar (Scotch) Boy. Punch. 1881 296

Sixty Years after. The Globe. 1887 296

The Little Bulgar Boy. Punch. 1885 297

The Boy and the Bear. Punch. 1887 297

The Jackdaw of Rheims. 1837 297

The Story of the Latest Curse. Truth. 1888 298

The Execution 299

The Frolics of Boreas 300

A Parliamentary Legend 300

The Lord of Intrigue. 1876. 301

The Devil’s Billiard Match. Rare Bits. 301

A Row in the Upper Circles. Judy. 1880 302

The Enchanted Net. Mirth & Metre. 1855 303

Handy Jack. Punch. 1882 304

The Cardinal’s Hat. Ipsedixit. 1851 304

Temptation of the Good St. Gladstone. 1886 305

The Roll Scroll of the Odd Volumes. 1888 306

Barney Maguire on the Coronation. 1837 306

Barney Maguire on the Jubilee. Lady’s Pictorial 307

A Lay of St. Dunstan’s. 1882 (on Temple Bar and the Griffin) 308

Pigeon shooting at Hurlingham. R. L. Francis 309

A I Laye a-thynkyne 310

As I Sate a-drynkynge 310

The Jingoldsby Legends. 1882 311

The Corkscrew Papers. 1876 311

Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Contradictory statements as to her birth 228

Mr. Ingram’s final settlement of the date 229

Mrs. Browning’s personal appearance 229

The Cry of the Children 229

The Wail of the Children. Punch. 1884 230

The Bitter Cry of Agriculture. J. D. Beeston 230

Church or Stage. The Referee. 1884 231

Down East. Edmund H. Yates 231

Gwendoline. Echo Club Papers, Bayard Taylor 232

A Tool of Trade 232

The Origin of Pan. Harry Furniss 232

The Rhyme of Sir Launcelot Bogle 233

The Spirit of Mrs. Browning to her husband. From Strange Visitors. New York. 1869 273

Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The Ancient Mariner. 1798 107

The Sheriff’s Officer. 1834 108

Le lecturé malgré lui. 1847 108

The Rhime of the Seedy Barrister. 1847 109

The Prolix Orator. 1849 110

The Rime of the Ancient Alderman. In V. Parts. Shirley Brooks. 1855 110

The Ancient Mariner, or the Deceived Husband 112

Classical versus Modern. 1869 113

New Version of Ancient Mariner. W. J. Wiegand. 113

The Rime of the Modern Shipowner. 1873 113

The Fight of the Fifth of November. 1874 114

The Rime of the Ancient Premier. 1875 115

The Rime of ye Ancient Dowager. 1876. (On Henry Irving in Othello) 115

The Wedding Guest’s Version. 1878 116

The Rhyme of the Ancient Blue. 1881 117

The Rime of the Potent Minister. 1882 117

Our Regimental Mess. E. Oliver 118

An American Version. 1885 118

The Admiralty Goose. 1885 118

The Rime of the Antient Missionere. 1886 119

Ye Ancient Father Thames. Truth Competition Parodies. 1884 120

The Lay of the Modern Millinere. 1886 121

The Ancient Philosopher. W. J. Prowse. 1868 122

The Rime of the Ancient Waggonere. 1819 122

The Cockney Mariner. G. A. à Beckett. 1846 122

The Rime of the New-made Baccalere. 1841 122

The Wise Men of Gotham. T. L. Peacock. 123

It was an Ancient Marriager. 1885 123

The Rime of the Ancient Statesman. 1874 123

The Birmingham Speech, by W. E. G. 1880 123

The Rime of the Ancient Rinking Man. 1876 123

The Meeting of the Justices. 1867 123

The Ancient Story (Tichborne case) 136

Love 123

The Power of Science. J. B. Stephens. 1880 124

To a Young Ass. 1794 126

Playhouse Musings. Rejected Addresses. 1812 125

Kubla Khan.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 126

In Hungerford did some wise man. 1844 127

Christabel. 1797 127

Continuation by Dr. Maginn. 1819 129

The Dream. Warreniana. 1824 131

A Parody of Christabelle. The Dejeuné. 1820 133

Christobell, a Gothic Tale. 1815 135

Geraldine, a sequel to Christabel. Martin F. Tupper. 1838 135

Christabel, continued. Eliza Stewart. 1841 135

Christabess, by S. T. Colebritche. 1816 135

Isabelle. James Hogg. 1816 135

The Cherub. 1816 135

Chrystabelle; or, the Rose without a Thorn. Edmund Falconer. 1860 135

Notes of other Parodies of Christabel 135

A Vision. Thomas Moore. 1826 135

Fragment of a Vision. William Maginn. 1821 136

The Devil’s Progress on Earth 189

The Devil’s Walk, variously ascribed to Professor Porson, Robert Southey, and to S. T. Coleridge 189

Various Imitations 190

Satan Reformer. 1832 191

The Devil’s Drive. Lord Byron. 191

Death’s Walk. 1832 192

The Printer’s Devil’s Work. 1832 192

The Devil’s Dream. The Hornet. 1871 193

The Devil’s Politics. 1878 194

The Forestaller’s Walk. 1881 194

The Devil’s Walk. 1883 194

The Devil’s latest Walk. 1887 195

The Devil’s Excursion to London. W. Phillips 195

There’s a Lying Spirit Abroad. E. A. Beard 196

William Collins.

Ode on the Passions 312

Ode to the Passions 313

The Aspirants. An Ode for Music. From Posthumous Parodies. 1814 313

The Victims. Thomas Dibdin. 1813 314

The Sessions. An Ode for Music. C. H. Waring 314

Ode to the Fashions. Comic News. 1864 315

William Cowper.

The Diverting History of John Gilpin. 1782. 64

Mrs. Gilpin riding to Edmonton 67

The History of Moore’s Life of Byron. 1831 67

A Ballad for all True Sportsmen. 1845. “Prince Albert is a Sportsman Bold” 67

The Political John Gilpin. (George Bentinck) 68

The new John Gilpin. (Sir Robert Peel.) 1846 68

The Modern Peeping Tom. (Viscount Ranelagh). 1868 69

The Railway Gilpin 70

The Diverting History of Tom Tucker. 1831 71

John Gilpin’s Voyage to Vauxhall. 1885 71

Davy Jones. B. de Burgh. 1823 71

John Gilpin in Latin 71

The Connaught Rangers. 1876 72

Paudy and the Mormon. J. H. Turner. 1878 72

Burbaban’s Defeat. 1863 86

The Modern Gilpin, or the adventures of John Oldstock. 1838 322

The Rose 72

Cowper’s first draft of the poem 72

My Uniform, by a Volunteer in 1860 72

April, or the new hat. C. S. Calverley 73

The Rink had been washed. A. W. Mackenzie 73

The Rose and the Buckets. 1812 73

To Mary

Mary Anderson. 1883 73

The Negro’s Complaint 74

On the Death of the Princess of Wales. 1819 76

Bishop Philpott’s Complaint. 1833 74

Lord Grey’s Complaint. 1834 74

Jumbo s Jeremiad. 1882 74

The School Boy’s Complaint 75

Farewell to the Camp. Shirley Brooks. 1853 75

“I am Monarch of all I survey” 76

Verses supposed to have been written by Leigh Hunt. “I am tenant of nine-feet by four” 77

Verses ascribed to the Duke of Wellington 77

The Monarch of all they survey. By a Railway Director. 1845 78

Verses ascribed to William Smith O’Brien. 78

The original song of Robinson Crusoe. 1848 78

Ballad of the Exeter Arcade Beadle. 1848 79

A Savage Parody. 1867 79

Lines by the “Head of the Family.” 1871 79

“She is Monarch of all she surveys.” 1874 80

Enforced Solitude. 1874 80

Verses ascribed to Dr. E. V. Kenealy. 1875 80

The Frozen-out Fox Hunter. The World. 1879 81

The Lay of the New Ameer. 1879 81

Ex-King Cetewayo’s Lament. 1879 81

I am “Cock of the Walk.” F. B. Doveton 82

The Griffin’s Lament. 1880 82

The Parvenu. 1882 82

Lawn Tennis. A. W. Mackenzie. 1883 83

On the Annexation of New Guinea. 1883 83

Soliloquy by a Disgusted Dandy. 1883 83

Verses by Salisbury Selkirk. 1884 84

The Tortures of Tourists. 1885 84

The Limited “Monarch.” 1885 85

A song for Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. 1886 85

The Lament of the Sportive M.P. 1886 85

Verses by Sir Charles Warren. 1887 86

Lines supposed to be written by Robinson Crusoe. C. M. Fanshawe 102

A Riddle by William Cowper. 1806 86

The Answer 86

“Bless my Heart, how Cold it is” 87

Thomas Gray.

An Elegy wrote in a Country Church-yard. 1751 1

A Reprint of the first edition, and history of the poem.

An Evening contemplation in a College. 1753 John Duncombe, M.A. 3

The Nunnery, an Elegy 5

Elegy on “The Guardian outwitted.” 1764 6

An Epitaph on a certain Poet 7

An Elegy in Covent Garden. 1777 7

An Elegy in Westminster Hall 9

An Elegy written in St. Stephens. 1784 10

Elegy written in a Grub street Garret. 1789 10

Elegy written in Bartlemy Fair. 1810 11

Elegy written in Drury Lane Theatre. 1818 12

Elegy written at a Christmas Feast. 1803 13

Elegiac Stanzas written in a London Alley 14

Elegy on the Last of the Lotteries 15

Elegy written in King’s Bench Prison. 1821 16

“ “ “ “ by A Minor. 17

Epitaph on a late Administration. 1811 18

An Elegy in a London Churchyard. 1799 18

Nightly Thoughts in the Temple. 1806 19

Nocturnal Contemplations in Barham Downs Camp. 1806 20

Elegy on a Pair of Breeches. T. Brand. 1818 22

Elegy written in a College Library. 1824 22

Elegy on the Death of Bow Fair. 1823 23

The Long Vacation, 1823 23

Lucubrations in an Apothecary’s shop 24

Elegy on Sir Francis Burdett, M.P. 1811 24

Elegy addressed to a little Attorney. 1819 25

Elegy written in the Long Vacation. 1831 26

The Woes of Change. T. Dibdin. 1832 26

The Gambler. 1832 27

Dry Goods: A Manchester Elegy. 1833 28

Meditations on Barry’s New Houses of Parliament. 1844 28

Elegy in a London Theatre. 1843 29

Night Thoughts. Albert Smith (?) 1848 30

Elegy in a London Churchyard. 1849 30

“ “ “ Diogenes. 1853 30

Elegy on a Betting office. 1853 31

Elegy written in a Railway Station. 1853 31

Elegy written near a Suburban Station House. 32

A Lunatic Parody. Fun. 1865 33

Elegy written in the House of Commons. 1867 33

An Elegy on Cremation. 1875 34

Lament of the Eminent One. (H. Irving.) The Figaro, 1875 34

Elegy written in Rotten Row. 1876 34

Elegy written in a Country Skating Rink. 1877 35

Cremorne: An Elegy. 1878 36

Circuit Elegy. By Lord Chelmsford. 1881 36

Elegy on a favourite Washerwoman. 1882 37

Gray’s Elegy in an Irish Prison. 1882 38

The S.K. Ring’s Requiem. 1886 38

Parnell-egy in Westminster Palace. 1887 38

Epitaph on “The Pic-Nic.” 1803 39

Epitaph on a noted Highwayman. 1806 39

A Political Parody. The British Press. 1812 39

Elegy in St Stephen’s Chapel. 1809 40

Elegy for “The Mirror.” 1825 41

Elegy written in a Town Church-yard. 1885 41

Elegy in Newall’s Buildings 42

The Scales 42

Lord Grey’s Elegy. 1881 42

A Perversion 42

The Author 42

Pensive in a Bone Yard. 1885 42

Imitations of “The Elegy” 42

A Supplement to Gray’s “Elegy.” 1823 42

The Foundlings. An Elegy. 1763 43

An Evening Contemplation in a French Prison. 1809 43

An Elegy written under a Gallows. 1768 43

Lord Mayor’s Day. A Mock Elegy. 1786 43

Elegy written at Bristol Hot Wells. 1789 44

Elegy written in Poet’s Corner. 1803 44

The Nunnery 44

Elegy written on a Field of Battle. 1818 44

Elegy written in a City Churchyard. 1848 44

Translations of “The Elegy” 44

“The Elegy” in French 45

Articles and Notes on “The Elegy” 48

Legs in Tattersall’s yard. 1828 46

An Elegy on the Departed Season. 1867 47

“The Elegy” in Latin 317

An Imitation of the “Elegy.” By a Sailor 317

Elegy in Newgate. The Satirist. 1810 317

Elegy written in the Temple Gardens, by Mr. Justice Hayes 317

Elegy written in a Ball Room. W. Maginn 318

The Elegy “travestied.” The Umpire. 1888 318

“Wimbledon,” an Elegy. July 1888. E. B. Anstee, L.R.B. 319

Parody in The Court of Session Garland by Colin Maclaurin 320

INDEX TO FIRST LINES.

The Curfeu tolls the knell of parting Day 2

The Curfew tolls the hour of closing gates 3

Retirement’s hour proclaims the tolling Bell 5

The shrill bell rings the knell of “Curtain rise” 6

St. Paul’s proclaims the solemn midnight hour 7

The Courts are shut--departed every Judge 9

Gazettes now toll the melancholy knell 10

Now sinks the sun within the azure main 10

The clock bell tolls the hour of early day 11

The prompter rings the lofty curtain down 12

The clock proclaims the welcome dinner hour 13

The watchman drawls the hour of dawning day 14

The Chancellor has passed the stern decree 15

The turnkey rings the bell for shutting out 16

The surly crier rings his nightly knell 17

Great Tom now sounds the close of busy day 18

St. Dunstan’s bells proclaim departing day 19

The moon slow setting sends a parting ray 20

The chapel bell, with hollow mournful sound 22

The Bow-bell tolls the knell of Bow-fair fun 23

My Lord now quits his venerable seat 23

The twilight curtains round the busy day 24

The pealing clock proclaims the close of day 24

The Judges toll the knell of Burdett’s fame 24

The vacant seats proclaim the parting day 26

Improvement tolls the knell of what, of yore 26

The lamps refract the gleam of parting day 27

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day 28

The wharf-bell tolls the knell of starting steam 28

The curtain falls, the signal all is o’er 29

Saint Martin tolls the hour of long past day 30

The sexton tolls the knell till parting day 30

St. Clement’s tolls the knell of parting day 30

The Station clock proclaims the close of day 31

The muffin-bell proclaims the parting day 32

The curlew rolls amidst the darting spray 33

The big clock tolls the knell of parting day 33

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day 34

The Park proclaims the season’s had its day 34

The church clock strikes the knell of parting day 35

The builder tolls the knell of Cremorne’s day 36

The trumpets sound the coming of the Judge 36

Farewell old friend, and memory ever dear 37

They think to toll the knell of prisoned Gray 38

The turret-clock proclaims the hour eleven 38

The clock-tow’r tolls the bell of coming day 38

The candles tell the close of parting day 40

The pealing clock proclaims the close of day 41

The church-bells peal the message 41

The clanging crow-bar rings the pile’s decay 42

The piano sounds the knell of parting day 42

Rads toll the knell of England’s passing day 42

Le rappel a marqué le jour en son déclin 45

The dustman tolls the coming of the morn 46

The porter tolls the bell on starting day 47

The whistle shrieks the knell of parting day 48

The Curfew tolls the hour of locking up 317

The gard’ner rings the bell at close of day 317

The beaux are jogging on the pictured floor 318

The shops are closed--the sign of closing day 318

The sound of gunfire marked the closing day 319

The bell now tolls, soon after dawn of day 320

Ode on the Spring 48

Ode on the Spring, by a Man of Fashion 48

Ode on the closing of the House of Commons 49

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 49

’Twas in a new constructed boat. 1805 50

’Twas on the pavement of a Lane. 1800 50

’Twas on the lofty Treasury’s side. 1762 51

Ode on the Amputation of a Cat’s Tail. 1795 51

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 1747 51

Ode on Ranelagh. 1775 52

Ode to Sir John Soane. 1824 53

Ode on the Distant Prospect of a Good Dinner. Blackwood’s Magazine. 1828 53

Ode on a Prospect of the Abolition of Eton Montem. 1846 54

Ode on a Close Prospect of Eton. 1882 54

The Bard. A Pindaric Ode 54

The Bard. A Covent Garden Ode. 1809 56

The Union (Cambridge). 1817 57

The Barber. Thomas Erskine. 1824 58

“Ruin seize thee, ruthless Earl.” The World. Competition Parody. 1879 60

“Ruin seize thee, reckless guide” 60

“Plague upon thee, Earl of B----.” F. B. Doveton. 1880 61

The Bostonian Prophet. 1779 61

Parody in the Life of Mrs. M. A. Clarke. 1809. (Connected with the Duke of York) 61

The Descent of Odin 61

The Descent of Timothy. J. H. Beattie. 1794 61

The Triumphs of Owen. Shirley Brooks. 1861 62

Gray’s Pindaric Odes 63

Ode to Oblivion. By G. Colman 63

Ode to Obscurity. and R. Lloyd 63

Ode for Music. Cambridge. 1769 63

Two Travesties. 1786 63

A Long Story 64

A sequel. John Penn 64

A sequel. Henry James Pye 64

Latin translations of Gray’s Poems. 1775 64

Mason’s continuation of Gray’s Ode 64

Runic Odes, in the manner of Mr. Gray. Thomas James Mathias. 1781 64

Ode in imitation of Gray. C. M. Fanshawe 102

John Home.

My Name is Norval. (From “Douglas”) 206

My name is Moses. J. P. Roberdeau 206

My name’s the Doctor. 1819 207

My name is Scragg’em 207

My name’s Tom Dibdin. The Times. 1803 207

My name is Whitbread. Morning Post. 1812 208

My name is Canning. The Mélange. 1834 208

My name is Lardner. 1831 208

“My name is Norval,” burlesqued 208

My name is Randolph. Figaro. 1886 209

My name is Balfour. Fun. 1887 209

Leigh Hunt.

Abou Ben Adhem 144

Making up the Slate 144

Ben Disraeli. 1867 144

The Bluecoat Boy 144

Abou Ben Folsom 144

Adam Mac Adam 144

Abou Ben Butler. 1886 145

Francesca Da Rimini. Bon Gaultier Ballads 145

A Nursery Ode. Warreniana 145

Carlotta Grisi 145

Song of October 146

Manners (Lord John) and Civility 146

Matthew Gregory Lewis.

Alonzo the Brave, and the fair Imogine 137

Giles Jollup the grave, and Brown Sally Green 138

Pilgarlic the Brave, and Brown Celestine 136

St. George and Caroline. 1820 139

Colenso the Brave. Shirley Brooks. 1865 139

Alfonso of Spain. 1875 140

A Terrible Tale. The Referee. 1884 140

Fire and Ale. Rejected Addresses. 1812 141

Fire and Water. 1887 142

Peggy the Gay, and the Bold Roger Gray. The True Briton. 1799 321

“A Bulldog so fierce, and a Spaniel so meek” 321

The Little Green Man 321

“Lemona was daughter of Hudda the Brave” 321

The Erl King and the Cloud King 142

The Cinder King 142

The Fire King, the Water King, and the Cotton King. 1832. 142

The old Hag in a Red Cloak. 1802 142

The Squeaking Ghost. 1804 321

Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton.

A Midnight Meditation. W. E. Aytoun 222

The New Timon. 1846 223

The New Timon and the Poets. A. Tennyson 223

O, Darling room, my heart’s delight 223

Lord Lytton’s foppery 224

The Lady of Lyons. 1838 224

The Bellows Mender. By W. T. Moncrieff 224

Melnotte’s Speech on his (Visionary) Palace 224

A Parody from “Cinderella.” Albert Smith 224

A Parody from H. J. Byron’s burlesque “The very latest Edition of the Lady of Lyons” 225

The Model Health Palace 225

The Lady of Lyons Married and Settled. By H. C. Merivale 225

The Sea Captain; or, the Birthright. 1839 225

Thackeray’s burlesque criticism on the play 226

The Rightful Heir. Lyceum Theatre. 1868 228

The Frightful Hair; or, Who Shot the Dog? 228

The Right-Fall Hair. H. T. Arden 228

The very last Days of Pompeii. R. Reece 228

An Epigram. W. S. Landor 228

Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay.

Lord Macaulay at tea 103

The Armada. 1832 146

A Conclusion by Dr. W. C. Bennett 146

A Conclusion by the Rev. H. C. Leonard 147

The Feast of Lanterns. Shirley Brooks. 1863 149

The Lord Mayor’s Show. The World. 1879 150

On Gladstone’s Midlothian Speeches. 1884 151

Horatius 151

The Fight of the Crescent. Cambridge. 1846 153

Marcus Curtius, the Honest Lawyer. E. Allen 154

Gustavus of Drury Lane. E. H. Yates. 1855 155

Johnson. E. H. Yates. 1856 156

Sibthorpius, Puppet Showman’s Album. 1848 159

The Fight for the Championship (Thomas Sayers and Heenan, 1860). H. C. Pennell. 160

The Fight of Sayerius and Heenanius. 1860 161

The Battle of the Bridge (Blackfriars). 1869 162

A Lay of Ancient Stoke. 1875 163

Match between Dryburgh and Sludgeborough. Pastime. 1883 164

The Battle of the Asses’ Bridge. J. M. Lowry. 165

Harcourtius of Derbiae. Truth. 1884 166

The Battle of the Institute (of Mechanical Engineers, November 5, 1875) 168

A Lay of Modern England. Auberon Herbert. Pall Mall Gazette. 1884 169

Lars Porsenna. College Rhymes. 1855 169

Mustering of the Hobbies. 1847 170

The Sibylline Books. 1856 170

How Titus Manlius Macauleius was made a Patrician. 1857 170

The Battle of Lake Glenlivit. S. Lover. 1857 170

Lay of Modern England. Punch. 1866 171

The Lay of Mr. Colt. Bon Gaultier. 171

The Great Durbar. Lyrics and Lays. 1867 172

Before the Comitia. 1873 172

The Dauntless Three. A Town and Gown Row. 1874 172

Thanatos. By the Ghost of Macaulay. 1875 173

Fifth of November. Town and Gown Row. By Adon. 1874 173

Christ Church Beseiged. 1877 173

Lay of the Last Commemoration Dinner. 1880 174

Obstruction Utilised. 1881 174

How Horatius kept the Bridge. The Blue. 1881 175

A Lay of Modern Hammersmith. 1882 175

How Gladstone won the Election. 1885 175

Gladstonius. 1885 177

“Now Joseph C. of Birmingham.” 1885 177

A Lay of Modern London. 1880 177

Volumnia 177

The Battle of the Lake Regillus 178

The Chiswick Flower Fête. 1846 179

The Battle of the Vestries. The Tomahawk. 179

A Lay of Modern London. 1872 180

The Football Match. 1878 180

A Prophecy of Capers. Fun. 181

The Battle of Lake Mort. (The Boat race) 182

The Dioscuri in Egypt. 1884 183

In the Arena. 1888 183

Henry of Navarre 184

The War of the Normas. (On Jenny Lind and Grisi). Man in the Moon. 1847 184

The Lord Mayor’s Show. 1884 184

Ireland, 1890. Topical Times. 1886 184

The Great Rent Case. 1867 185

Ivry.

Before the Battle. The Daily News. 1886 185

Lay of the (Royal) Amphitheatre. 1845 186

A Lay of Modern England. 1847 186

The Inauguration of the Mayor. 1851 186

The City Tournament. Diogenes. 1853 187

A Lay of Ancient Rome. Albert Smith. 187

Burlington. J. D. Parley. 1872 187

Routhe’s Revenge. Light Green. 1882 187

The New Naseby 187

Parodies in Punch 188

Landbillia 188

Hibernia 188

Song of December 189

The Laureate’s Tourney. Bon Gaultier 189

A Lay of Modern Exon. Exeter 1879 322

Rev. Thomas Moss.

The Beggar’s Petition

Pity the sorrows of a poor old Man. 1769 203

Pity the sorrows of a poor old Goose. 1804 203

Hebrew translation. Kottabos. 1881 203

Pity the Sorrows of a third class man. 1845 204

Pity the sorrows of a poor old “Stag.” 1845 204

Pity the sorrows of a poor old bridge. 1846 204

The Begging Imposter’s Petition. 1849 205

Pity the troubles of a poor young Prince. 1850 205

Pity the sorrows of a poor young Girl. 1853 205

Pity the sorrows of a poor old Clerk. 1856 205

Pity the sorrows of an ill-used Man. 1872 206

Pity the sorrows of a poor old Bar. 1874 206

Winthrop Mackworth Praed.

The Chaunt of the Brazen Head. 196

The Chaunt of the Political Brazen Head. 1882 196

Plus de Politique. 1832 197

A Lyric from Highbury. Pall Mall. 1886 197

A Letter of Advice 197

On an Election at the Athenæum. 1888 197

I remember, I remember. 1833 198

The Nelson Column Drama. 1843 198

The Farmer’s Corn Law Song. 1846 198

About the Weather 198

The Bankrupt to the Commissioner. 1848 199

Mistletoe Anticipations. Cuthbert Bede. 1851 199

Good Night to the Season 199

Good-bye to the Commons. 1880 200

Vale. Punch. 1883 200

A Parody from Life. 1883 201

A Parody from Truth. 1885 201

Farewell to the Season. 1886 201

So the Jubilee’s over! Truth. 1887 202

Good-bye to the (Cricketing) Season. Punch 324

To a Jilt 202

“Sleep, Mr. Speaker, ’tis surely fair.” By W. M. Praed 202

Samuel Rogers.

The Pleasures of Memory. 1792 316

The Pains of Memory. P. Bingham. 1812 316

On a Tear 316

On a Tear. Fun 316

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Forged letters, published in 1852 233

The Cenci, performance in 1886 233

The Salacious Shelley Society. Truth 1886 233

To a Skylark 233

To a Bicycle. Moonshine. 1885 233

The Cloud 234

The Cloudy. The World. 1885 234

The Cloud, from Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack 234

The Other Cloud. Punch. 1880 235

Seaward 235

Thrown Out. Hugh Cayley 235

The Tale of the Sensitive “Freak.” The Umpire 236

Horace Smith.

Address to an Egyptian Mummy 236

The Answer of the Egyptian Mummy 237

Lines to the Western Mummy. Gallaudet 238

On Sir Moses Montefiore. Botcher. 1884 238

A Parody on Horace Smith’s “George Barnewell.” By Shirley Brooks. 1858 239

William Makepeace Thackeray.

Violets. By L. E. L. 212

Cabbages. W. M. Thackeray 212

The Willow Tree. Two versions. Thackeray 213

There were Three Sailors of Bristol City 214

“There were three dwellers in Gotham City.” Punch. 1884 214

There were some Commissioners. 1887 214

Werther had a love for Charlotte 215

Peg of Limavaddy. 1843 215

A Beautified Being 216

Whiskey, drink divine. 1840 216

Henry (Irving) and Ellen (Terry). 1884 217

The Battle of Limerick 217

The Hampton Court Bicycle Meet. 1880 218

The Battle of O’Brine. The Globe. 1887 218

Love at Two Score 219

Love at Sixteen 219

The Snob’s version of the Cane-bottom’d Chair 220

There was a King of Yvetot 220

It was the “crack” news-maker. 1886 220

“Inaugurative Ode” in The Cornhill Mag. 220

When moonlike ore the hazure seas 220

The Arcana of Cabinet-making 221

The Ballad of a Rural Pleceman 221

Old Fashioned Fun 222

Edmund Waller.

Go lovely Rose! 210

Go, wedding cake! Diogenes. 1853 210

Go, flaunting Rose! Punch. 1881 210

Go, my Primrose! Punch. 1886 210

Wanted--a Governess 211

Wanted, an Alderman 211

Wanted, an Editor 211

William Wordsworth.

We are Seven 88

The seven new Peers. 1831 88

The Trustee 89

Only seven. Henry S. Leigh. 1865 89

They are three. Shotover Papers. 1874 90

I’ve got seven. E. Compton. 1878 90

Lay by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 1877 91

The Ballad of the ’Bus. 1885 92

They are seven. Fun. 1885 92

We are seven. The Judge. 1885 92

More than seven 93

We are one 93

We are seven (Irish M.P.’s). 1877 93

They are five. 1877 94

We are seven (Unionists), 1886 94

Lucy. 1779 94

On Wordsworth. Hartley Coleridge 94

Jacob. Phoebe Carey. 1854 95

Emancipation. F. B. Doveton. 95

The Baby’s Debût. Rejected Addresses. 1812 95

The Pet Lamb 96

Rink, pretty creature, Rink. A. W. Mackenzie 96

My Heart leaps up 96

A Parody. William Maginn. 1820 97

“I met an old man on the road.” 1811 97

She was a Phantom of delight. 97

“It was a phantom of delight.” 1886 97

He was a great Panjandrum, quite. 1886 98

Dusty Bob. Comic Magazine. 1834 98

To the Cuckoo 98

“O Blythe newspaper! From thy page.” By F. B. Doveton 98

The Reverie of poor Susan 99

The Reverie of a poor Squeezed ’un. 1885 99

Violets, do what they will 99

Fair women win the hearts of men. 1813 99

What women make of men 99

The Yarra-Yarra unvisited. 1872 100

A Sonnet on the Sonnet 100

French translation by M. de St. Beuve 100

Scorn not the Meerschaum 101

Oh! Bull, strong labourer. 1846 101

Billy Routing. William Maginn 101

The Kail Pot. Blackwood’s Magazine. 1821 101

Billy Blinn. William Maginn 101

There is a River clear and fair. C. M. Fanshawe 101

Ralph Rattat. 1885 102

The Poets at tea 103

Containing imitations of

Lord Macaulay

Lord Tennyson

A. C. Swinburne

William Cowper

Robert Browning

William Wordsworth

E. A. Poe

D. G. Rossetti

Robert Burns

Walt Whitman

Ode on the Installation of Prince Albert. 1847 106

Peter Bell 104

A parody by Reynolds. 1819 104

A Parody by Shelley 104

The Dead Asses. 1819 104

Benjamin the Waggoner. 1819 105

Lord Byron on “Peter Bell.” 1820 105

“There’s something in a flying horse.”

“There’s something in a stupid ass.”

A mood of my own mind. T. L. Peacock. 105

Old Cumberland Pedlar. 1824 105

The Stranger. James Hogg. 1816 105

The Flying Tailor. 1816 105

James Rigg. 1816 105

Doctor Pill and Gaffer Quake 105

Tim the Tacket. 1881 106

William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate. 1843 106

POETS OF THE UNITED STATES.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

All or Nothing. By Bayard Taylor 245

Brahma. 1857 246

Damn, ah! 246

Mutton 246

Colonel John Hay.

Jim Bludso 246

The Bloomin’ Flower of Rorty Gulch. Charles H. Ross 247

Joseph Swife and Potiphar. Funny Folks. 1876 272

The Mystery of Gilgal 247

Big Bill. Bayard Taylor 248

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Contentment 253

Contentment, a Parody. St. James’ Gazette 253

The Deacon’s Masterpiece 254

Sequel to the “One Hoss Shay.” C. F. Adams 255

Ode for a Social Meeting 255

The Poet at the Breakfast Table. Funny Folks 255

The Psycho-Physical Muse. Bayard Taylor 256

The Wheelless. J. G. Dalton. 1880 256

James Russell Lowell.

The Pious Editor’s Creed 248

The Pious Chancellor’s Creed. Punch. 1878 249

The Jingo’s Creed. Funny Folks. 1879 249

The Unionist Editor’s Creed. Pall Mall. 1887 250

Joe Chamberlain to Himself 250

When Doctors Disagree 250

On Recruiting 250

Renegaders. William Guise. 1888 251

The Official Explanation. Chicago News. 251

Tennyson’s latest. 1882 251

The Saga of Ahab Doolittle. Bayard Taylor 252

Jonathan to John 276

Joaquin Miller.

The Fate of the Frontiersman. Bayard Taylor 270

Edgar Allan Poe.

E. A. Poe at tea 103

Deborah Lee. American Paper 282

Camomile Tea. Punch’s Almanac. 1883 283

W. E. G. Judy. 1885. 283

Albert McGee. University News Sheet. 284

The Swells. Dramatic College Annual. 1868 284

The Polls. St. James’s Gazette. 1885 285

The Bills. Funny Folks. 1886 285

The Sleigh Bells. Topical Times. 1886 285

Autumn Bells. Fun. 1886 285

The Bells. C. H. Waring. 1886 286

The Christmas Party. American Paper 286

The Bills. The Umpire. 1888 286

Christmas Bills. Pippins and Cheese. 1868 286

The Yells. John C. Morgan 286

An Appeal (Parody of “The Raven.”) Relating to Ruddigore. Pall Mall Gazette 286

An Artist’s Ravin’. Funny Folks 287

The Weekly Dispatch parody competition, October 31, 1886. Poem by J. C. Rose 288

Poem by F. B. Doveton 288

“Joe” a Chamberlainian Dream. Pall Mall Gazette. 1887 288

The Yankee Cryptogram. Topical Times. 1887 289

A Vision. Prison Poems by T. D. Sullivan, M.P. 290

Tullamore, The Weekly Dispatch. 1888 291

A list of Parodies of “The Raven.” 291

The Dutchman and the Raven 322

The Whitechapel Murders. Marcus 323

Christmas Boxes. Moonshine. 1887 291

The Ladies, after Dinner 292

To William (Gladstone). Saturday Review 292

Leonainie. The Daily News. 1886 292

The Lost Soul. Strange Visitors. 1869 292

Walt Whitman.

Song of Myself; Miracles; On Thanksgiving Day 256

To Walt Whitman in America. A. C. Swinburne 257

A Parody from Once a Week. 1868 257

Walt Whitman on Oxford. Shotover Papers. 257

Home--sweet Home. H. C. Bunner 258

This is a Poem. The Cambridge Meteor. 1882 258

Camerados. Bayard Taylor 258

A Parody from San Francisco 258

A Parody from “The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys” 259

A Parody from Judy. 1884 259

Whitman in London. Punch. 1887 260

A Pension for Walt Whitman 260

St. Smith of Utah. Walter Parke 260

Poem of the Ride. J. G. Dalton. 1880 262

Pods of Pease. Rejected Tercentenary Songs 262

A Mad Parson. Julian Sturgis. 1884 262

Walt Whitman at tea 103

John Greenleaf Whittier.

Maud Müller 239

Mrs. Judge Jenkins, a sequel. Bret. Harte 240

Kate Ketchem. Phœbe Carey 240

Maud Müller in Dutch 241

The Maud Müller (Improved) 242

Maud Müller in Urbe 242

The Modern Maud Müller. Cincinnati Paper 242

Maud Müller and the Judge 243

Maud Müller on the Ice. Brooklyn Eagle 243

Miss Müller. Funny Folks. 1884 243

Barbara Fritchie 244

Barbara Fritchie in Dutch 244

Hiram Hover. The Echo Club Papers 245

MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN POEMS.

Beautiful Snow. James M. Watson 268

A History of the Poem by James Hogg 268

Another version by Major Sigourney 269

London Snow. The Globe. 1886 269

That Beautiful Kiss 269

A Critique on Adelina Patti 209

“The Beautiful Snow,” extra verse. W. F. Fox 323

The Gallant Three Hundred. (On the disputed authorship of the poem) 323

Der Good-lookin Shnow 323

By the Sad Sea Waves. Walter Parke. 1874 271

His Mother-in-Law. San Francisco News Letter 272

Falling leaf and fading tree 265

Easy chair and soft young man 265

Hans Breitmann’s Barty. C. G. Leland 270

The Fate of the Four 270

Her washing ended with the day. Phœbe Carey 273

Leedle Yawcob Strauss. Charles F. Adams 267

Leedle Eduard Strauss. Punch. 1885 267

On the Pier. W. Wilkins in Kottabos 272

Sheridan’s Ride. Thomas B. Read 262

Schlosser’s Ride 263

Schneider’s Ride 263

A Sylvan Scene. Bayard Taylor 263

Strange Visitors. Published in New York. 1869 273

Trust not Man, for he’ll deceive you! 263

Trust not woman, she’ll beguile you? 264

Temptation and Explanation. E. W. Wilcox 264

A Newspaper Parody 264

The Night before Christmas. C. C. Moore 265

The Night after Christmas 265

The Picket Guard. Thad. Oliver 266

Along the St. Lawrence. New York World 266

The Lessons of the Birds. G. W. Doane 267

What is that, Mother? E. Lawson Finerty 267

You kissed me. Josephine Hunt. 1857 264

You kicked me. 1881 264

Woodman, spare that tree. G. P. Morris 271

The Woodman’s reply. Godfrey Turner 271

NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A List of the Principal Songs 274

Yankee Doodle. 1755 274

The origin of Yankee Doodle. G. P. Morris 275

“The Mighty Brougham’s come to Town.” Liverpool Election. 1812 275

An Appendix to “Yankee Doodle.” 1851 275

“Punch” on the Civil War. 1861 276

Jonathan to John. James R. Lowell 276

“Yankee Doodle” from the Southern point of view 277

A Yankee Soldier’s Song 278

Cock-a-Doodle. Truth. 1882 278

Randy Churchill. American Paper. 1887 278

John Brown’s Body 278

A Radical Song. D. Evans 278

Three Hundred Thousand more. John S. Gibbons. July 16, 1862 279

To Abraham Lincoln. Shirley Brooks 279

Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! the Boys are marching! 279

A political parody. Truth. 1886 279

My Maryland. James R. Randall. 1861 280

The Karamanian Exile. J. C. Mangan 280

A Northern States parody of “Maryland” 281

A Liberal Lyric. England. 1884 281

Yankee-Land. J. G. Dalton. 1885 281

Canada, my Canada. The Brooklyn Eagle 323

Hail, Columbia. Oliver Wendell Holmes 282

CONTENTS

VOLUMES I., II., III., and IV. PARODIES.

Each Part may be purchased separately.

Volume I.

Part 1. Alfred Tennyson’s Early Poems.

Part 2. Alfred Tennyson’s Early Poems.

Part 3. Alfred Tennyson’s Later Poems.

Part 4. Page 49 to 62. Tennyson’s Poems.

Page 62 to 64. H. W. Longfellow.

Part 5. Page 65. A Parody of William Morris.

Page 65 to 80. H. W. Longfellow.

Part 6. Page 81 to 96. H. W. Longfellow.

Part 7. Page 97 to 105. H. W. Longfellow. Hiawatha.

Page 105 to 112. Rev. C. Wolfe. Not a Drum was heard.

Part 8. Page 113. Not a Drum was heard.

Page 113 to 128. The Song of the Shirt.

Part 9. Page 129 to 135. Thomas Hood.

Page 135 to 140. Bret Harte.

Pages 140 & 141. Not a Drum was heard.

Page 142 to 144. Alfred Tennyson.

Part 10. Page 145 to 160. Alfred Tennyson.

Part 11. Page 161 to 176. Alfred Tennyson.

Part 12. Page 177 to 186. Alfred Tennyson.

Page 187 to 190. Not a Drum was heard.

Page 190 to 192. Song of the Shirt.

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Volume II.

Part 13. Page 1 to 4. Bret Harte.

Pages 4 and 5. Thomas Hood.

Page 6 to 16. H. W. Longfellow.

Part 14. Page 17 to 24. H. W. Longfellow.

Page 25 to 40. Edgar Allan Poe.

Part 15. Page 41 to 64. Edgar Allan Poe.

Part 16. Page 65 to 88. Edgar Allan Poe.

Part 17. Page 89 to 103. Edgar Allan Poe.

Pages 103, 4 & 5. The Art of Parody.

Page 106 to 112. My Mother, by Miss Taylor.

Part 18. Page 113 to 135. My Mother.

Page 136 The Vulture, (After “The Raven.”)

Page 136 A Welcome to Battenberg.

Part 19. Page 137 to 141. Tennyson’s The Fleet, etc.

Page 141 to 143. My Mother.

Page 144 to 160. Hamlet’s Soliloquy.

Part 20. Page 161 to 184. W. Shakespeare. The Seven Ages of Man, etc.

Part 21. Page 185 to 206. W. Shakespeare. Account of the Burlesques of his Plays.

Page 206 to 208. Dr. Isaac Watts.

Part 22. Page 209 to 217. Dr. Isaac Watts.

Page 217 to 232. John Milton.

Part 23. Page 233 John Milton.

Page 233 to 236. Dryden’s Epigram on Milton.

Page 236 to 238. Matthew Arnold.

Page 239 to 244. W. Shakespeare.

Page 244 to 246. Bret Harte.

Page 246 to 255. H. W. Longfellow.

Pages 255 and 256 Thomas Hood.

Part 24. Page 257 to 259. Thomas Hood.

Page 260 to 280. Alfred Tennyson.

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Volume III.

Part 25. A Chapter on Parodies, by Isaac D’Israeli.

Page 3 to 16. Oliver Goldsmith.

Part 26. Page 17 to 20. Oliver Goldsmith.

Page 20 to 40. Thomas Campbell.

Part 27. Page 41 to 47. Thomas Campbell.

Page 48 to 64. Robert Burns.

Part 28. Page 65 to 71. Robert Burns.

Page 71 to 88. Sir Walter Scott.

Part 29. Page 89 to 99. Sir Walter Scott.

Page 99 to 105. Scotch Songs.

Page 106 to 109. Robert Burns.

Page 109 to 112. Thomas Campbell.

Part 30. Page 113 to 116. Coronation Lays.

Page 117 to 129. Charles Kingsley.

Page 129 to 136. Mrs. Hemans.

Part 31. Page 137 to 140. Mrs. Hemans.

Page 140 to 160. Robert Southey.

Part 32. Page 161 to 181. Robert Southey.

Page 181 to 184. The Anti-Jacobin.

Part 33. Page 185 to 186. The Anti-Jacobin.

Page 187 to 189. A. C. Swinburne.

Page 189 to 208. Lord Byron.

Part 34. Page 209 to 229. Lord Byron.

Page 230 to 232. Thomas Moore.

Part 35. Page 233 to 256. Thomas Moore.

Part 36. Page 257 to 278. Thomas Moore.

Page 278. Lord Byron.

Pages 279 & 280. Charles Kingsley.

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Volume IV.

Part 37. On Parodies of Popular Songs. Page 2 to 16. Modern Songs.

Part 38. Songs by Henry Carey, A. Bunn, J. H. Payne, and Robert Herrick.

Part 39. Songs by R. Herrick, T. H. Baily, and Lewis Carroll.

Part 40. Songs by C. and T. Dibdin, T. Campbell, and David Garrick.

Part 41. The Bilious Beadle, The Old English Gentleman, Rule Britannia, and God Save the King.

Part 42. Songs in W. S. Gilbert’s Comic Operas.

Part 43. W. S. Gilbert’s Songs, Tennyson’s Jubilee Ode, Swinburne’s Question, and the Answer.

Part 44. The Vicar of Bray, Old King Cole, Lord Lovel, and Old Simon the Cellarer.

Part 45. Chevy-Chace, Lord Bateman, Songs by R. B. Sheridan, Charles Mackay, and B. W. Proctor (Barry Cornwall).

Part 46. Parodies of various old Songs and Ballads.

Part 47. Parodies of Scotch, Irish, and Welsh Songs.

Part 48. Songs by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, and various old English Songs. Tennyson’s Jubilee Ode.

“There is no talent so universally entertaining as that of mimickry, even when it is confined to the lively imitation of the air, manner, and external deportment of ordinary individuals.

It rises in interest, however, and in dignity, when it succeeds in expressing, not merely the visible and external characteristics of its objects, but those also of their taste, their genius and temper. A vulgar mimic repeats a man’s known stories, with an exact imitation of his voice and gestures; but he is an artist of a far higher description, who can make stories or reasonings in his manner, and represent the features and movements of his mind, as well as the accidents of his body. The same distinction applies to the mimickry, if it may be so called, of an author’s style and manner of writing.

It is another matter, however, to be able to borrow the diction and manner of a celebrated writer to express sentiments like his own—to write as he would have written on the subject proposed to his imitator—to think his thoughts in short, as well as to use his words—and to make the revival of his style appear a natural consequence of the strong conception of his peculiar ideas. To do this in all the perfection of which it is capable, requires talents, perhaps, not inferior to those of the original on whom they are employed—together with a faculty of observation, and a dexterity of application, which that original might not always possess; and should not only afford nearly as great pleasure to the reader, as a piece of composition,—but may teach him some lessons, or open up to him some views, which could not have been otherwise disclosed.

The exact imitation of a good thing, it must be admitted, promises fair to be a pretty good thing in itself; but if the resemblance be very striking, it commonly has the additional advantage of letting us more completely into the secret of the original author, and enabling us to understand far more clearly in what the peculiarity of his manner consists, than most of us should ever have done without this assistance. The resemblance, it is obvious, can only be rendered striking by exaggerating a little, and bringing more conspicuously forward, all that is peculiar and characteristic in the model.”

Lord Jeffrey on The Rejected Addresses.

Footnotes:

Transcriber’s Note:

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below.

Notes associated with stanza numbers in Gray's Elegy follow the poem. All other footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the book. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, unprinted or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate letters at line endings or page breaks were removed.

There are multiple anchors to Footnotes [2], [58], [61], [62], [63], [64]. There were no anchors to Footnote [83] or [116]; anchors were added where they may belong.

Unprinted diacriticals were added to words in languages other than English. Quotation marks were adjusted to matched sets. Extraneous punctuation was deleted.

Spelling corrections:

To restless nights a sacifice / sacrifice

His waiscoat / waistcoat

Twice in Footnote [87]: pantomine / pantomime

But moss and rarest misletoe / mistletoe

But the waves of the Styz / Styx

Who went to sea ia / in

like Milton’s demons I could clime / climb

Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusets / Massachusetts