Carols of Cockayne / The Third Edition, 1874
CONTENTS
The following trifles have already made their appearance in various periodicals. The limit of their pretension is obvious from their individual brevity and collective title; with few exceptions, they were intended simply as drawing-room songs. Without aspiring to the high level of the days when Praed, Bayly, Hood, Fitzgerald, Theodore Hook, and the two Smiths wrote for music, may I flatter myself that these Carols are at least equal in point of taste (if not in point of humour) to certain light and lively ballads that are at present popular through the medium of the music-halls?
Some readers will probably think the name of this book suspiciously similar to that of Mr Frederick Locker's charming London Lyrics . Let me anticipate a charge of plagiarism by observing that Mr. Locker himself was kind enough to send me the suggestion for my present title.
To those gentlemen who have given me permission to republish various verses in this collection, I am sincerely obliged.
N form and feature, face and limb,
Henry S. Leigh
CAROLS OF COCKAYNE.
With Illustrations By Alfred Concanen.
The Third Edition.
1874.
PREFACE.
H. S. L.
CAROLS OF COCKAYNE.
THE TWINS.
UN PAS QUI COÛTE.
THE GIFT OF THE GAB.
A LECTURE ON ELOCUTION.
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.
NO. I—THE ROMAUNT OF HUMPTY-DUMPTY.
NO. 2.—A LEGEND OF BANBURY-CROSS.
CLUMSY SERVANT.
A NURSERY LEGEND.
AN ALLEGORY.
WRITTEN IN DEEP DEJECTION.
OVER THE WATER.
AN UNAPPRECIATED CRICHTON.
ONLY SEVEN.
A PASTORAL STORY, AFTER WORDSWORTH.
POSTSCRIPT.
SEE-SAW.
A WILD HUNT.
A VERY COMMON CHILD.
CROOKED ANSWERS.
NO. 2.—MAUD.
A BEGGING LETTER.
A COCKNEY'S EVENING SONG.
ROMANTIC RECOLLECTIONS.
I.
II.
III.
THE MAD GRANDPAPA.
SHABBY-GENTEEL.
CUPID'S MAMMA.
THE CRUSADER'S FAREWELL.
LAYS OF MANY LANDS.
NO. I. COSSIMBAZAR.
NO. 2. SARAGOSSA.
NO. 3. CLARENS.
NO. 4. VENICE.
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,
(For a Cavalier Tea-Party.)
MOTHER.
THE HOUSE ON THE TOP OF A HILL.
A Newgate Ballad.
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.
I.
II.
III.
WANTED, A SINGER.
ANTICIPATIONS.
THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES.
THE OLD WAG.
ETIQUETTE.
A PLAIN ANSWER
(TO A CIVIL QUESTION.)
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.
NO. 1. COD LIVER OIL.
NO. 2. NIGHT AND MORNING.
NO. 3. GENERAL DEBILITY.
THE COMPACT,
THE VISION OF THE ALDERMAN.
EVENING DRESS.
WINE.
A Scientific Drinking Song.
MY ULTIMATUM.
ALL ALONE,
A Lay of the Morte Saison,
"OH NIGHTS AND SUPPERS," ETC.
THE WEATHER.
"ON CORPULENCE."
THE MOONLIGHT SONATA.
SECOND MOVEMENT.
LAST MOVEMENT.
OCCASIONAL VERSES.
CHATEAUX D'ESPAGNE.
TO A CERTAIN SOMEBODY.
(Dedicated to Miss E. Farren, late of the Olympic Theatre.)
THE LORD MAYOR'S APOTHEOSIS.
A Civic Ode.
THE END OF AN OLD YEAR,
"The Old Year lies a-dying,"
