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The Book of Humorous Verse

INDEX OF TITLES

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A

Accepted and Will AppearParmenas Mix268

Actor, AnJohn Wolcot287

Ad Chloen, M. A.Mortimer Collins184

Address to the ToothacheRobert Burns724

ÆstivationOliver Wendell Holmes849

After Dilettante ConcettiH. D. Traill474

After HoraceA. D. Godley320

Ahkoond of Swat, TheGeorge Thomas Lanigan710

Ahkond of Swat, TheEdward Lear708

Ain't It Awful, Mabel?John Edward Hazzard137

Alarmed Skipper, TheJames Thomas Fields664

All at SeaFrederick Moxon70

All-SaintsEdmund Yates280

All's Well That Ends WellUnknown264

All Things Except Myself I KnowFrançois Villon343

Amazing Facts About FoodUnknown91

Ambiguous LinesUnknown804

American Traveller, TheRobert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr)751

Angelo Orders His DinnerBayard Taylor428

Annabel LeeStanley Huntley497

Annuity, TheGeorge Outram350

Answer to Master Wither's Song, "Shall I, Wasting in Despair?"Ben Jonson526

Any One Will DoUnknown169

Appeal for Are to the Sextant of the Old Brick Meetinouse, AArabella Willson66

Are Women Fair?Francis Davison189

Art of Book-keeping, TheLaman Blanchard818

As to the WeatherUnknown107

At the Sign of the CockOwen Seaman414

B

Baby's Début, TheJames Smith390

Bachelor's Dream, TheThomas Hood342

Bachelor's Mono-Rhyme, ACharles Mackay817

Bald-headed Tyrant, TheMary E. Vandyne720

BalladCharles Stuart Calverley467

Ballad, AGuy Wetmore Carryl426

Ballade of An Anti-Puritan, AG. K. Chesterton337

Ballade of Ballade-Mongers, AAugustus M. Moore441

Ballad of Bedlam, AUnknown886

Ballad of Bouillabaisse, TheW. M. Thackeray714

Ballad of the CanalPhœbe Cary492

Ballad of Cassandra Brown, TheHelen Gray Cone345

Ballad of Charity, ACharles Godfrey Leland613

Ballad of the Emeu, TheBret Harte921

Ballade of Forgotten LovesArthur Grissom223

Ballade of the Golfer in LoveClinton Scollard222

Ballad of Hans BreitmannCharles Godfrey Leland669

Ballad of High Endeavor, AUnknown484

Ballad of the Oysterman, TheOliver Wendell Holmes583

Ballad of the Primitive JestAndrew Lang72

Ballade of Suicide, AG. K. Chesterton224

BangkolidyeBarry Pain334

Barney McGeeRichard Hovey721

Battle of Blenheim, TheRobert Southey252

Behave Yoursel' Before FolkAlexander Rodger174

Behold the DeedsH. C. Bunner397

Bellancholly DaysUnknown747

Belle of the Ball, TheWinthrop Mackworth Praed171

Bells, TheUnknown816

Ben BluffThomas Hood619

Bessie Brown, M. D.Samuel Minturn Peck120

Bird in the Hand, AFrederic E. Weatherly170

Birth of Saint Patrick, TheSamuel Lover58

Bitter Bit, TheWilliam E. Aytoun451

Blow Me Eyes!Wallace Irwin115

Boston Lullaby, AJames Jeffrey Roche240

Boston Nursery RhymesRev. Joseph Cook324

Broken Pitcher, TheWilliam E. Aytoun86

Bunches of GrapesWalter Ramal947

Buxom JoanWilliam Congreve179

BygonesBert Leston Taylor383

By Parcels PostGeorge R. Sims262

C

Cacoethes ScribendiOliver Wendell Holmes238

CameradosBayard Taylor430

Cameronian Cat, TheUnknown917

Candidate's Creed, TheJames Russell Lowell294

Cantelope, TheBayard Taylor393

Careful Penman, TheUnknown810

Carman's Account of a Law Suit, ASir David Lindesay807

Casey at the BatErnest Lawrence Thayer601

Catalectic Monody, AUnknown833

Cataract of Lodore, TheRobert Southey743

Categorical CourtshipUnknown207

Catfish, TheOliver Herford900

"Caudal" Lecture, AWilliam Sawyer92

Cautionary VersesTheodore Hook828

Chemist to His Love, TheUnknown206

Chloe, M. A.Mortimer Collins185

Chorus of WomenAristophanes126

Christmas ChimesUnknown284

Chronicle: A Ballad, TheAbraham Cowley176

CircumstanceFrederick Locker-Lampson444

Clean ClaraW. B. Rands283

Cloud, TheOliver Herford134

Clown's Courtship, TheUnknown217

Cock and the Bull, TheCharles Stuart Calverley464

CologneSamuel Taylor Coleridge363

Colubriad, TheWilliam Cowper909

Comfort in AfflictionWilliam E. Aytoun453

Comic MiseriesJohn G. Saxe42

Comical Girl, TheM. Pelham946

CommonplacesRudyard Kipling427

CompanionsCharles Stuart Calverley63

Confession, TheRichard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)443

Conjugal ConjugationsA. W. Bellaw810

Conjugal Conundrum, AUnknown371

ConstancyJohn Boyle O'Reilly137

Constant Cannibal Maiden, TheWallace Irwin194

ContentmentOliver Wendell Holmes238

Contrast, TheCaptain C. Morris265

Converted Cannibals, TheG. E. Farrow683

Cosmic Egg, TheUnknown771

Cosmopolitan Woman, AUnknown167

CossimbazarHenry S. Leigh843

Counsel to Those That EatUnknown932

Country Summer Pastoral, AUnknown883

Courtin', TheJames Russell Lowell110

Courting in KentuckyFlorence E. Pratt168

CremationWilliam Sawyer534

Crystal Palace, TheW. M. Thackeray547

Culture in the SlumsWilliam Ernest Henley400

Cumberbunce, ThePaul West844

CupidWilliam Blake56

CupidBen Jonson211

Cupid's DartsUnknown67

Cynical Ode to An Ultra-Cynical PublicCharles Mackay339

Cynicus to W. ShakespeareJames Kenneth Stephen362

D

Darius Green and His Flying-MachineJohn Townsend Trowbridge690

Darwinian BalladUnknown913

DarwinityHerman C. Merivale409

Day Is Done," "ThePhœbe Cary490

Deacon's Masterpiece, TheOliver Wendell Holmes580

Death's RambleThomas Hood801

Declaration, TheN. P. Willis446

Devil's Walk on Earth, TheRobert Southey298

Devonshire Lane, TheJohn Marriott266

Dialogue from Plato, AAustin Dobson142

DidoRichard Porson366

Dighton Is EngagedGelett Burgess647

Dinkey-Bird, TheEugene Field929

DirgeUnknown787

Dirge, AWilliam Augustus Croffut737

Dirge of the Moolla of KotalGeorge T. Lanigan712

DisasterCharles Stuart Calverley469

DistichsJohn Hay247

Diversions of the Re-Echo ClubCarolyn Wells515

Diverting History of John Gilpin, TheWilliam Cowper564

Divided DestiniesRudyard Kipling704

Donnybrook Jig, TheViscount Dillon700

Dora Versus RoseAustin Dobson144

Double Ballade of Primitive ManAndrew Lang331

Dutch LullabyEugene Field928

E

Early RisingJ. G. Saxe44

Eastern Question, AnH. M. Paull598

EchoJ. G. Saxe750

Editor's Wooing, TheRobert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr) 389

Elderly Gentleman, TheGeorge Canning665

ElegyArthur Guiterman445

Elegy, AnOliver Goldsmith740

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, AnOliver Goldsmith764

Enchanted Shirt, TheJohn Hay658

Endless Song, TheRuth McEnery Stuart968

Enigma on the Letter HCatherine Fanshawe762

Epitaph, AnGeorge John Cayley366

Epitaph, AnMatthew Prior765

Epitaph Intended for His WifeJohn Dryden368

Erring in CompanyFranklin P. Adams55

Eternal Poem, AnSamuel Taylor Coleridge364

EtiquetteW. S. Gilbert256

"Exactly So"Lady T. Hastings61

Extracts from the Rubaiyat of Omar CayenneGelett Burgess512

F

Fable,Ralph Waldo Emerson290

Fair Millinger, TheFred W. Loring186

Faithless Nellie GrayThomas Hood797

Faithless Sally BrownThomas Hood792

False Love and True LogicLaman Blanchard183

Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents, AOliver Wendell Holmes36

FarewellBert Leston Taylor419

Farewell to Tobacco, ACharles Lamb726

Fastidious Serpent, TheHenry Johnstons887

Father Molloy.Samuel Lover307

Father O'FlynnAlfred Perceval Graves719

Father WilliamLewis Carroll485

Father WilliamUnknown531

Feminine ArithmeticCharles Graham Halpine191

Fernando and ElviraW. S. Gilbert635

Fin de SiècleUnknown357

Finnigin to FlanniganS. W. Gillinan225

First Banjo, TheIrwin Russell672

First LoveCharles Stuart Calverley116

Fish Story, AHenry A. Beers916

Fisherman's Chant, TheF. C. Burnand81

Five WivesRobert Herrick772

Flamingo, TheLewis Gaylord Clark894

Foam and FangsWalter Parke544

Fool and the Poet, TheAlexander Pope363

For I Am SadDon Marquis379

Forlorn One, TheRichard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)449

Forty Years AfterH. H. Porter210

Fragment, AUnknown450

Friar of Orders Gray, TheJohn O'Keefe282

Frog, TheHilaire Belloc907

From a Full HeartA. A. Milne31

Future of the Classics, TheAnonymous826

G

Gentle Alice BrownW. S. Gilbert639

Gentle Echo on Woman, ADean Swift752

Gifts ReturnedWalter Savage Landor198

Giles's HopeSamuel Taylor Coleridge363

Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar, AGuy Wetmore Carryl395

Good and Bad LuckJohn Hay334

Goose, TheLord Tennyson611

Gouty Marchant and the Stranger, TheHorace Smith563

Grain of Salt, AWallace Irwin241

Grampy Sings a SongHolman F. Day670

Great Black Crow, ThePhilip James Bailey908

Great Fight, A Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr)697

H

Half Hours with the ClassicsH. J. DeBurgh779

Hans Breitmann's PartyCharles Godfrey Leland668

Happy Man, TheGilles Ménage814

He and SheEugene Fitch Ware109

He Came to PayParmenas Mix447

Height of the Ridiculous, TheOliver Wendell Holmes38

Hen, TheMatthew Claudius892

Hen-Roost Man, TheRuth McEnery Stuart247

Here Is the TaleAnthony C. Deane421

Here She Goes and There She GoesJames Nack572

Her Little FeetWilliam Ernest Henley59

Herring, TheSir Walter Scott949

Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, TheAlgernon Charles Swinburne458

Hiram HoverBayard Taylor113

His Mother-in-LawWalter Parke75

Hoch! Der KaiserRodney Blake291

Holy Willie's PrayerRobert Burns272

Home and MotherMary Mapes Dodge932

Homœopathic SoupUnknown76

Home Sweet Home with VariationsH. C. Bunner498

Honey-Moon, TheWalter Savage Landor366

House That Jack Built, TheSamuel Taylor Coleridge407

How the Daughters Come Down at DunoonH. Chalmondeley-Pennell533

How OftenBen King489

How to Ask and HaveSamuel Lover181

How to Eat WatermelonsFrank Libby Stanton73

How to Make a Man of ConsequenceMark Lemon280

Humpty Dumpty's RecitationsLewis Carroll872

Hundred Best Books, TheMostyn T. Pigott769

Hunting of the Snark, TheLewis Carroll676

Husband and Heathen SamWalter Foss160

Husband's Petition, TheWilliam B. Aytoun454

Hyder IddleUnknown879

HypocrisySamuel Butler365

I

Ideal Husband to His Wife, TheSam Walter Foss246

"I Didn't Like Him"Harry B. Smith157

Idyll of Phatte and Leene, AnUnknown406

IfUnknown951

IfMortimer Collins436

IfH. C. Dodge268

If I Should Die To-nightBen King489

If the ManSamuel Johnson949

If They Meant All They SaidAlice Duer Miller247

If We Didn't Have to EatNixon Waterman57

If You Have SeenThomas Moore444

I Hae Laid a Herring in SautJames Tytler216

Imaginative Crisis, TheUnknown457

Imagiste Love LinesUnknown383

ImitationAnthony C. Deane375

Imitation of Walt WhitmanUnknown434

Imitation of Wordsworth, AnCatherine M. Fanshawe535

IndifferenceUnknown950

In MemoriamCuthbert Bede463

In Memoriam TechnicamThomas Hood, Jr.413

Invisible Bridge, TheGelett Burgess855

Invitation to the Zoölogical Gardens, AnUnknown822

Inspect UsEdith Daniell471

In the CatacombsHarlan Hoge Ballard52

Irishman and the Lady, TheWilliam Maginn742

Irish Schoolmaster, TheJames A. Sidey103

IsrafiddlestringsUnknown472

J

JabberwockyLewis Carroll869

Jabberwocky of Authors, TheHarry Parsons Taber437

Jackdaw of Rheims, TheRichard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)586

JacobPhœbe Cary491

Jester Condemned to Death, TheHorace Smith578

"Jim"Bret Harte652

Jim BludsoJohn Hay661

Jim-Jam King of the Jou-JousAlaric Bertrand Stuart851

JobSamuel Taylor Coleridge364

Jocosa LyraAustin Dobson824

John BarleycornRobert Burns730

John GrumlieAllen Cunningham326

John Thompson's DaughterPhœbe Cary494

Jovial Priest's Confession, TheLeigh Hunt834

Joys of Marriage, TheCharles Cotton344

Jumbles, TheEdward Lear862

Justice to ScotlandUnknown384

K

K. K.—Can't CalculateFrances M. Whitcher353

Kentucky PhilosophyHarrison Robertson325

Kindly AdviceUnknown890

Kindness to AnimalsJ. Ashby-Sterry891

King ArthurUnknown879

King John and the AbbotUnknown554

Kilkenny Cats, TheUnknown950

Kiss, TheTom Masson109

Kiss in the Rain, ASamuel Minturn Peck123

Kitchen Clock, TheJohn Vance Cheney220

Kitty of ColeraineEdward Lysaght130

Kitty Wants to WriteGelett Burgess646

K. K.—Can't CalculateF. M. Witcher354

Knife-Grinder, TheGeorge Canning249

Knight and the Lady, TheRichard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)590

L

Lady MineH. E. Clarke221

Laird O'Cockpen, TheLady Nairne703

Lament of the Scotch Irish ExileJames Jeffrey Roche385

Lanty LearySamuel Lover208

Larrie O'Dee,William W. Fink165

Last Ride Together, TheJames Kenneth Stephen431

Latest Decalogue, TheArthur Hugh Clough261

Laughing Willow, TheOliver Herford948

Lawyer's Invocation to Spring, TheHenry Howard Brownell402

Lay of Ancient RomeThomas R. Ybarra753

Lay of the Deserted InfluenzaedN. Cholmondeley-Pennell746

Lay of the Love Lorn, TheAytoun, William E., and Martin537

Lay of the Lover's Friend, TheWilliam E. Aytoun88

Lazy Roof, TheGelett Burgess855

Learned Negro, TheUnknown274

Leedle Yawcob StrausCharles Follen Adams940

Legend of the First Cam-u-el, TheArthur Guiterman888

Legend of Heinz von Stein, TheCharles Godfrey Leland49

LifeUnknown783

Life in LaconicsMary Mapes Dodge311

Like to the Thundering ToneBishop Corbet848

LiliesDon Marquis379

LimericksCarolyn Wells835

LinesUnknown456

Lines by an Old FogyUnknown882

Lines to Miss Florence HuntingdonUnknown830

Lines Written After a BattleUnknown456

Literary Lady, TheRichard Brinsley Sheridan278

Little BilleeW. M. Thackeray546

Little BreechesJohn Hay657

Little Goose, AEliza Sproat Turner938

Little MammaCharles Henry Webb943

Little Orphant AnnieJames Whitcomb Riley934

Little Peach, TheEugene Field931

Little Star, TheUnknown476

Little Swirl of Vers Libre, AThomas R. Ybarra380

Little Vagabond, TheWilliam Blake269

Llama, TheHilaire Belloc906

LogicUnknown809

Logical EnglishUnknown809

Lord GuyGeorge F. Warren191

Lost Pleiad, TheArthur Reed Ropes161

Lost Spectacles, TheUnknown287

Love is Like a DizzinessJames Hogg218

Lovers and a ReflectionCharles Stuart Calverley372

Love Knot, TheNora Perry124

LoveliltsMarion Hill824

Love Playnt, AGodfrey Turner408

Love's Moods and TensesUnknown812

Lucy LakeNewton Mackintosh463

Lugubrious Whing-Whang, TheJames Whitcomb Riley858

Lunar StanzasHenry Coggswell Knight841

LyingThomas Moore86

M

Madame Sans SouciUnknown951

MalbrouckFather Prout28

Man, TheStephen Crane248

Man in the Moon, TheJames Whitcomb Riley856

Man of Words, AUnknown790

Man's Place in NatureUnknown89

ManilaEugene Fitch Ware949

March to Moscow, TheRobert Southey775

Mark Twain: A Pipe DreamOliver Herford30

Martial in LondonMortimer Collins316

Martin Luther at PotsdamBarry Pain404

MaudHenry S. Leigh188

Maudle-in-BalladUnknown510

MavroneArthur Guiterman378

Meeting of the Clabberhuses, TheSam Walter Foss244

Melton Mowbray Pork-Pie, ARichard le Gallienne472

MendaxLessing369

Messed Damozel, TheCharles Hanson Towne471

Mexican SerenadeArthur Guiterman902

Microbe, TheHilaire Belloc907

Midsummer MadnessUnknown377

Mighty Must, TheW. S. Gilbert376

Millennuim, TheRobert Browning60

Minguillo's KissUnknown122

Miniver CheevyEdward Arlington Robinson229

Misadventures at MargateRichard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)558

Mis' SmithAlbert Bigelow Paine119

Modern Hiawatha, TheUnknown482

Modest Wit, ASelleck Osborn260

"Mona Lisa"John Kendrick Bangs95

MoneyJehan du Pontalais323

More ImpressionsOscuro Wildgoose509

More WalksRichard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)950

Mr. Finney's TurnipUnknown847

Mrs. SmithFrederick Locker-Lampson155

Musical Ass, TheTomaso de Yriarte249

My AngelineHarry B. Smith158

My Aunt's SpectreMortimer Collins600

My DreamUnknown853

My FeetGelett Burgess855

My FoeUnknown529

My Love and My HeartHenry S. Leigh204

My MadelineWalter Parke773

My Mistress's BootsFrederick Locker-Lampson153

N

Naughty Darkey Boy, TheUnknown927

NemesisJ. W. Foley94

NephelidiaAlgernon Charles Swinburne459

"Never Forget Your Parents"Franklin P. Adams394

New Church Organ, TheWill Carleton162

New Song, AJohn Gay754

New Version, TheW. J. Lampton90

New VestmentsEdward Lear866

Ninety-Nine in the ShadeRossiter Johnson781

NirvanaUnknown900

No!Thomas Hood792

No Fault in WomenRobert Herrick166

Nocturnal Sketch, AThomas Hood823

NongtongpawCharles Dibdin808

Nonsense VersesCharles Lamb848

Nora's VowSir Walter Scott159

Northern FarmerLord Tennyson354

North, East, South and WestUnknown403

NothingRichard Porson786

Nothing to WearWilliam Allen Butler148

Noureddin, The Son of the ShahClinton Scollard199

Nun, TheLeigh Hunt206

Nursery Legend, AHenry S. Leigh937

Nursery Rhymes à la ModeUnknown509

Nursery Song in Pidgin EnglishUnknown530

O

Ocean Wanderer, TheUnknown879

Ode for a Social MeetingOliver Wendell Holmes833

Ode for a Social MeetingLeigh Hunt834

Ode to a Bobtailed CatUnknown936

Ode to the Human HeartLaman Blanchard784

Ode to TobaccoCharles Stuart Calverley732

Ode to Work in SpringtimeThomas R. Ybarra47

O D VUnknown788

Of a Certain ManSir John Harrington282

Of All the MenThomas Moore370

Of a Precise TailorSir John Harrington322

Of Baiting the LionOwen Seaman893

Officer BradyRobert W. Chambers232

Oh, My GeraldineF. C. Burnand180

Old Bachelor, AnTudor Jenks98

Old Fashioned FunW. M. Thackery33

Old GrimesAlbert Gorton Greene766

Old Line Fence, TheA. W. Bellaw760

Old Man and Jim, TheJames Whitcomb Riley678

Old Song by New Singers, AnA. C. Wilkie506

Old StuffBert Leston Taylor48

On the Aristocracy of HarvardDr. Samuel G. Bushnell949

On a Bad SingerSamuel Taylor Coleridge364

On Butler's MonumentRev. Samuel Wesley370

On a Deaf HousekeeperUnknown76

On the Death of a Favorite CatThomas Gray557

On the Democracy of YaleDean Jones949

On the Downtown Side of an Uptown StreetWilliam Johnstone79

On a Full-Length Portrait of Beau MarshLord Chesterfield369

On Hearing a Lady Praise a Certain Rev. Doctor's EyesGeorge Outram368

On Knowing When to StopL. J. Bridgman312

On a Magazine SonnetRussell Hilliard Loines281

On the Oxford CarrierJohn Milton780

On ScotlandCleveland369

On a Sense of HumorFrederick Locker-Lampson367

On Taking a WifeThomas Moore367

Only SevenHenry S. Leigh543

OptimismNewton Mackintosh445

Origin of Ireland, TheUnknown106

Original Lamb, TheUnknown477

Orphan BornRobert J. Burdette903

Oubit, TheCharles Kingsley330

O-u-g-hCharles Battell Loomis761

Ould Doctor MackAlfred Perceval Graves717

Our HymnOliver Wendell Holmes374

Our Native BirdsNathan Haskell Dole53

Our TravellerHenry Cholmondeley-Pennell445

Out of Sight, Out of MindBarnaby Googe807

Out Upon itSir John Suckling218

Over the WayMary Mapes Dodge125

Owen SeamanLouis Untermeyer480

Owl and the Pussy Cat, TheEdward Lear901

Owl-Critic, TheJames Thomas Fields309

P

Paddy O'RaftherSamuel Lover571

Pairing-Time AnticipatedWilliam Cowper212

Palabras GrandiosasBayard Taylor407

Panegyric on the LadiesUnknown803

ParadiseGeorge Birdseye281

Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months, AThomas Hood941

Parson GrayOliver Goldsmith741

Parterre, TheE. H. Palmer180

Pensées de NoëlA. D. Godley336

PessimismNewton Mackintosh338

Pessimist, TheBen King358

Pet's PunishmentJ. Ashby-Sterry184

Phillis's AgeMatthew Prior332

Philosopher, ASam Walter Foss242

Phyllis LeeOliver Herford139

Pied Piper of Hamelin, TheRobert Browning603

Pig, TheRobert Southey914

Pilgrims and the Peas, TheJohn Wolcot621

Pin, AElla Wheeler Wilcox132

Plaidie, TheCharles Sibley190

Plain Language from Truthful JamesBret Harte648

Played-Out Humorist, TheW. S. Gilbert25

Plea for Trigamy, AOwen Seaman68

Pobble Who Has No Toes, TheEdward Lear865

Poe-'em of Passion, AC. F. Lummis532

Poets at Tea, TheBarry Pain486

Polka Lyric, ABarclay Philips832

Poor Dear GrandpapaD'Arcy W. Thompson950

Pope, TheChas. Lever70

Pope and the Net, TheRobert Browning286

Portrait, AJohn Keats496

Positivists, TheMortimer Collins315

Post Captain, TheCharles E. Carryl615

Post-ImpressionismBert Leston Taylor235

Practical Joker, TheW. S. Gilbert26

Prayer of Cyrus Brown, TheSam Walter Foss54

Prehistoric SmithDavid Law Proudfit83

Presto FuriosoOwen Seaman417

Prior to Miss Belle's AppearanceJames Whitcomb Riley925

Promissory Note, TheBayard Taylor429

Propinquity NeededCharles Battell Loomis51

Purple Cow, TheGelett Burgess948

Q

Quaker's Meeting, TheSamuel Lover576

Quest of the Purple Cow, TheHilda Johnson100

Questions with AnswersUnknown810

Quite by ChanceFrederick Langbridge205

R

Razor Seller, TheJohn Wolcot297

Reasons for DrinkingDr. Henry Aldrich364

Recruit, TheRobert W. Chambers230

Reflections on Cleopathera's NeedleCormac O'Leary105

Rejected "National Hymns," TheRobert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr)387

Religion of Hudibras, TheSamuel Butler271

Remedy Worse than the Disease, AMatthew Prior365

Report of an Adjudged CaseWilliam Cowper82

Retired Cat, TheWilliam Cowper910

Retired Pork-Butcher and the SpookG. E. Farrow685

Retort, TheGeorge Pope Morris174

Rev. Gabe Tucker's RemarksUnknown312

ReubenPhœbe Cary493

Rhyme for Musicians, AE. Lemke772

Rhyme of the RailJohn G. Saxe748

Rhymester, ASamuel Taylor Coleridge363

Riddle, AUnknown951

Rigid Body SingsJ. C. Maxwell483

Robert FrostLouis Untermeyer479

Robinson Crusoe's StoryCharles E. Carryl617

Rollicking Mastodon, TheArthur Macy853

Romance of the Carpet, TheRobert J. Burdette674

Romaunt of Humpty Dumpty TheHenry S. Leigh411

Rondeau, TheAustin Dobson782

Rondelay, APeter A. Motteux41

Rory O'More; or, Good OmensSamuel Lover141

Ruling Passion, TheAlexander Pope285

Rural BlissAnthony C. Deane97

Rural RapturesUnknown450

S

Sabine Farmer's Serenade, TheFather Prout214

Said Opie ReedJulian Street and Montgomery Flagg948

Sailor's Yarn, AJames Jeffrey Roche680

Sainte MargerieUnknown477

SaladMortimer Collins436

SaladSydney Smith93

Sally in Our AlleyHenry Carey182

Sally Simkin's LamentThomas Hood800

Same Old StoryHarry B. Smith360

Sary "Fixes Up" ThingsAlbert Bigelow Paine192

Saying, Not MeaningWilliam Basil Wake666

SchoolJames Kenneth Stephen60

Schoolmaster, TheCharles Stuart Calverley64

Scientific ProofJ. W. Foley880

Secret Combination, TheEllis Parker Butler209

Select Passages from a Coming PoetF. Anstey410

Senex to Matt. PriorJames Kenneth Stephen362

Shake, Mulleary and Go-etheH. C. Bunner40

Shipwreck, TheH. Palmer876

Siege of Belgrade, TheUnknown813

Siege of Djklxprwbz, TheEugene Fitch Ware96

SimilesUnknown791

Simile, AMatthew Prior262

Sing for the Garish EyeW. S. Gilbert875

Sir Guy the CrusaderW. S. Gilbert644

Sketch from the Life, AArthur Guiterman121

Skipper Treson's RideJohn Greenleat Whittier688

Sky-MakingMortimer Collins314

Smack in School, TheWilliam Pitt Palmer128

SmatterersSamuel Butler365

Society upon the Stanislaus TheBret Harte650

"Soldier, Rest!"Robert J. Burdette374

Some HallucinationsLewis Carroll874

Some LadiesFrederick Locker-Lampson367

Some Little BugRoy Atwell77

Somewhere-in-Europe-WockyF. G. Hartswick482

SongJoseph Addison751

SongGeorge Canning84

SongJohn Donne330

SongRichard Lovelace241

SongJ. R. Ptanche99

Song of Impossibilities, AWinthrop Mackintosh Praed327

Song of Sorrow, ACharles Battell Loomis386

Song of the SpringtideUnknown527

"Songs Without Words"Robert J. Burdette413

Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad HouseUnknown851

Sonnet to a ClamJohn G. Saxe734

Sorrows of Werther, TheW. M. Thackeray140

'Spacially JimBessie Morgan129

Spirk Throll-DerisiyeJames Whitcomb Riley855

Splendid Fellow, AH. C. Dodge267

Splendid Shilling, TheJohn Philips316

St. Anthony's Sermon to the FishesAbraham á Sancta-Clara251

Stanzas to Pale AleUnknown732

St. Patrick of Ireland, My Dear!William Maginn101

Story of Prince Agib, TheW. S. Gilbert641

Strictly Germ-ProofArthur Guiterman87

Strike Among the Poets, AUnknown785

Study of an Elevation, in Indian InkRudyard Kipling226

Styx River AnthologyCarolyn Wells521

SurnamesJames Smith804

SusanFrederick Locker-Lampson157

Susan SimpsonUnknown774

SympathyReginald Heber270

T

TakingsThomas Hood, Jr.817

Tam o' ShanterRobert Burns623

Ternary of Littles, Upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady, ARobert Herrick806

Terrible Infant, AFrederick Locker-Lampson156

'Tis MidnightUnknown843

'Tis Sweet to RoamUnknown878

That Gentle Man from Boston TownJoaquin Miller629

That Texan Cattle ManJoaquin Miller288

Thingumbob, TheUnknown882

Then Ag'inSam Walter Foss357

"There's a Bower of Bean-vines"Phœbe Cary493

There Was a Little GirlUnknown926

Third Proposition, TheMadeline Bridges345

Thought, AJames Kenneth Stephen248

Three Black Crows, TheJohn Byrom254

Three ChildrenUnknown843

Three Jovial HuntsmenUnknown878

ThursdayFrederick E. Weatherly313

Tim TurpinThomas Hood795

To a BlockheadAlexander Pope362

To a Capricious FriendJoseph Addison368

To a FlyJohn Wolcot734

To an Importunate HostUnknown534

To a Slow Walker and Quick EaterLessing369

To a ThesaurusFranklin P. Adams825

To Be or Not To BeUnknown891

To Doctor EmpiricBen Jonson365

To Julia in Shooting TogsOwen Seaman418

To MarieJohn Bennett852

To MinervaThomas Hood49

To My Empty PurseGeoffrey Chaucer58

To My NoseAlfred A. Forrester (Alfred Croquill)832

Too LateFitz Hugh Ludlow348

To PhœbeW. S. Gilbert28

To the Pliocene SkullBret Harte46

To the Portrait of "A Gentleman"Oliver Wendell Holmes236

To the Terrestrial GlobeW. S. Gilbert256

Town of Nice, TheHerman C. Merivale438

Tragic Story, AW. M. Thackeray850

TranscendentalismUnknown92

Translated WayFranklin P. Adams427

Travesty of Miss Fanshawe's EnigmaHorace Mayhew763

TrioletPaul T. Gilbert120

Triolet, TheWilliam Ernest Henley782

True to PollF. C. Burnand275

Trust in WomenUnknown276

Truth About Horace, TheEugene Field50

Tu QuoqueAustin Dobson146

Turtle and the Flamingo, TheJames Thomas Fields923

Turvey TopWilliam Sawyer884

'Twas Ever ThusHenry S. Leigh544

Twelve ArticlesDean Swift279

Twins, TheHenry S. Leigh108

Two FishesUnknown188

Two MenEdwin Arlington Robinson35

Two Old Bachelors, TheEdward Lear868

V

UffiaHarriet R. White877

Ultimate Joy, TheUnknown32

Unattainable, TheHarry Romaine141

Uncle Simon and Uncle JimCharles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward)849

Under the MistletoeGeorge Francis Schults196

Unexpected Fact, AnEdward Cannon844

Unfortunate Miss BaileyUnknown702

Unsatisfied YearningR. K. Munkittrick889

Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant PartyThomas Moore367

Up the SpoutAlgernon Charles Swinburne460

Usual Way, TheFrederick E. Weatherly200

V

Vague Story, AWalter Parke74

V-A-S-E, TheJames Jeffrey Roche227

Village Choir, TheUnknown528

Villanelle of Things AmusingGelett Burgess73

Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross CovesWilliam Ernest Henley399

Viper, TheHilaire Belloc906

Visit from St. Nicholas, AClement Clarke Moore935

W

Walrus and the Carpenter, TheLewis Carroll896

The Whango TreeUnknown842

War: A-Z, TheJohn R. Edwards829

War ReliefOliver Herford901

Ways and MeansLewis Carroll870

Way to Arcady, TheH. C. Bunner201

Wedding, ASir John Suckling704

Wedding, TheThomas Hood, Jr.412

Well of St. Keyne, TheRobert Southey584

What is a Woman Like?Unknown118

What's In a Name?R. K. Munkittrick347

What's My Thought Like?Thomas Moore370

What Will We Do?Robert J. Burdette311

Whatever Is, Is RightLaman Blanchard786

What Mr. Robinson ThinksJames Russell Lowell292

Whenceness of the WhichUnknown476

When Lovely WomanPhoebe Cary494

When Moonlike Ore the Hazure SeasW. M. Thackeray34

When the Frost Is on the PunkinJames Whitcomb Riley34

Which Is WhichJohn Byrom368

Whistler, TheUnknown133

Why?H. P. Stevens214

Why Don't the Men Propose?Thomas Haynes Bayly131

Why Doth a Pussy Cat?Surges Johnson895

Widow Bedott to Elder SnifflesFrances M. Whicher195

Widow Malone, TheCharles Lever126

Wife, ARichard Brinsley Sheriian366

Wife, ThePhoebe Cary494

William Brown of OregonJoaquin Miller653

Willows, TheBret Harte423

Willow-Tree, TheW. M. Thackeray439

Wing Tee WeeJ. P. Denison139

Winter DuskR. K. Munkittrick42

Within and WithoutJames Russell Lowell359

Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, TheW. M. Thackeray552

Woman's WillJohn G. Saxe362

Wonders of NatureUnknown470

Wordsworthian ReminiscenceUnknown470

Wreck of the "Julie Plante"William Henry Drummond662

Written After Swimming from Sestos to AbydosLord Byron80

Y

Yak, TheHilaire Belloc906

Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"W. S. Gilbert632

Yonghy-Bonghy Ho, TheEdward Lear859

Young GazelleWalter Parke918

Young Lady of Niger, TheUnknown948

Young LochinvarUnknown381

Youth and ArtRobert Browning339

Z

Zealless Xylographer, TheMary Mapes Dodge759

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