A Parody Anthology
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ANTHOLOGIES
By CAROLYN WELLS Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Each 16mo, Cloth, $1.50 net
BY CAROLYN WELLS AUTHOR OF “A NONSENSE ANTHOLOGY NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1919
Copyright, 1904 By Charles Scribner's Sons Published, September, 1904
TO MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Acknowledgment is hereby gratefully made to the publishers of the various parodies for permission to include them in this compilation.
The parodies from “Diversions of the Echo Club, by Bayard Taylor, and Mary and Her Lamb, from “New Waggings of Old Tales, by Frank Dempster Sherman, are published by permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company.
By the courtesy of John Lane are included the parodies of Anthony C. Deane, from his volume “New Rhymes for Old; and those of Owen Seaman, from volumes “In Cap and Bells and “The Battle of the Bays.
Bed During Exams is from “Cap and Gown, published by Messrs. L. C. Page & Company.
The Golfer's Rubaiyat, by H. C. Boynton, is from “A Book of American Humorous Verse, published by Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Company.
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A Parody Anthology
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CONTENTS
THE GOLFER'S RUBAIYAT
FOOTNOTE:
THE MODERN RUBAIYAT
THE BABY'S OMAR
AFTER CHAUCER
YE CLERKE OF YE WETHERE
AFTER SPENSER
A PORTRAIT
AFTER SHAKESPEARE
THE BACHELOR'S SOLILOQUY
POKER
TOOTHACHE
A DREARY SONG
SONG
THE WHIST-PLAYER'S SOLILOQUY
AFTER WITHER
AFTER HERRICK
SONG
TO JULIA UNDER LOCK AND KEY
AFTER NURSERY RHYMES
AN IDYLL OF PHATTE AND LEENE
NURSERY SONG IN PIDGIN ENGLISH
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
A SONG OF A HEART
THE DOMICILE OF JOHN
MARY AND THE LAMB
AFTER WALLER
THE AESTHETE TO THE ROSE
AFTER DRYDEN
THREE BLESSINGS
OYSTER-CRABS
AFTER DR. WATTS
THE VOICE OF THE LOBSTER
THE CROCODILE
AFTER GOLDSMITH
WHEN LOVELY WOMAN
AFTER BURNS
MY FOE
RIGID BODY SINGS
AFTER WORDSWORTH
ON WORDSWORTH
JACOB
JANE SMITH
ONLY SEVEN
LUCY LAKE
AFTER SIR WALTER SCOTT
YOUNG LOCHINVAR
AFTER COLERIDGE
THE ANCIENT MARINER
STRIKING
AFTER SOUTHEY
FATHER WILLIAM
LADY JANE
AFTER CAMPBELL
THE NEW ARRIVAL
JOHN THOMPSON'S DAUGHTER
AFTER THOMAS MOORE
THE LAST CIGAR
'TWAS EVER THUS
"THERE'S A BOWER OF BEAN-VINES"
DISASTER
SARAH'S HALLS
'TWAS EVER THUS
AFTER JANE TAYLOR
THE BAT
AFTER BARRY CORNWALL
THE TEA
AFTER BYRON
THE ROUT OF BELGRAVIA
A GRIEVANCE
AFTER CHARLES WOLFE
THE BURIAL OF THE BACHELOR
NOT A SOU HAD HE GOT
AFTER MRS. HEMANS
THE THYROID GLAND
AFTER KEATS
I.
II.
III.
IV.
AFTER HEINE
IMITATION
COMMONPLACES
AFTER HOOD
I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER
AFTER ALFRED BUNN
A YULE-TIDE PARODY
SELF-EVIDENT
AFTER LORD MACAULAY
THE LAUREATE'S TOURNEY
AFTER EMERSON
MUTTON
AFTER MARY HOWITT
THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE
AFTER MRS. BROWNING
IN THE GLOAMING
GWENDOLINE
AFTER LONGFELLOW
THE MODERN HIAWATHA
HIGHER
TOPSIDE GALAH!
EXCELSIOR
"THE DAY IS DONE"
A PSALM OF LIFE
HOW OFTEN
DESOLATION
THE BIRDS AND THE PHEASANT
AFTER WHITTIER
HIRAM HOVER
AFTER MRS. NORTON
THE HORSE AND HIS MASTER
THE NEW VERSION
AFTER POE
WHAT TROUBLED POE'S RAVEN
THE AMATEUR FLUTE
SAMUEL BROWN
THE PROMISSORY NOTE
THE CANNIBAL FLEA
ANNABEL LEE
THE BELLS
THE GOBLIN GOOSE
AFTER LORD HOUGHTON
LOVE AND SCIENCE
AFTER TENNYSON
THE BATHER'S DIRGE
LITTLE MISS MUFFET
THE MUSICAL PITCH
TO AN IMPORTUNATE HOST
THE VILLAGE CHOIR
THE BITER BIT
THE LAUREATE
THE LAY OF THE LOVELORN
IN IMMEMORIAM
SIR EGGNOGG
GODIVA
A LAUREATE'S LOG
THE RECOGNITION
TIMBUCTOO.—PART I.
AFTER TUPPER
OF FRIENDSHIP
OF READING
AFTER THACKERAY
THE WILLOW-TREE
AFTER CHARLES DICKENS
MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE
AFTER ROBERT BROWNING
HOME TRUTHS FROM ABROAD
AFTER BROWNING
THE COCK AND THE BULL
A STACCATO TO O LE LUPE
ANGELO ORDERS HIS DINNER
THE FLIGHT OF THE BUCKET
THE JAM-POT
IMITATION OF ROBERT BROWNING
THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER
UP THE SPOUT
I.
II.
III.
IV.
AFTER WHITMAN
CAMERADOS
IMITATION OF WALT WHITMAN
IMITATION OF WALT WHITMAN
THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE
AFTER CHARLES KINGSLEY
THREE LITTLE FISHERS
THE THREE POETS
AFTER MRS. R. H. STODDARD
THE NETTLE
AFTER BAYARD TAYLOR
HADRAMAUT
AFTER WILLIAM MORRIS
ESTUNT THE GRIFF
AFTER ALFRED AUSTIN
AN ODE
AFTER W. S. GILBERT
ODE TO A LONDON FOG
PRESIDENT GARFIELD
PROPINQUITY NEEDED
AFTER R. H. STODDARD
THE CANTELOPE
AFTER A. A. PROCTOR
THE LOST VOICE
THE LOST APE
THE LOST WORD
AFTER GEORGE MEREDITH
AT THE SIGN OF THE COCK
A CHRISTMAS WAIL
BALLAD
CIMABUELLA
THE POSTER GIRL
AFTER JEAN INGELOW
LOVERS, AND A REFLECTION
THE SHRIMP-GATHERERS
AFTER CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
REMEMBER
AFTER LEWIS CARROLL
WAGGAWOCKY
THE VULTURE AND THE HUSBANDMAN
AFTER A. C. SWINBURNE
GILLIAN
ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWN
THE MANLET
IF!
THE MAID OF THE MEERSCHAUM
QUAERITUR
A MELTON MOWBRAY PORK-PIE
FOAM AND FANGS
A SONG OF RENUNCIATION
NEPHELIDIA
THE LAY OF MACARONI
AFTER BRET HARTE
THE HEATHEN PASS-EE
DE TEA FABULA
AFTER AUSTIN DOBSON
THE PRODIGALS
AFTER ANDREW LANG
BO-PEEP
AFTER W. E. HENLEY
IMITATION
AFTER R. L. STEVENSON
BED DURING EXAMS
AFTER OSCAR WILDE
MORE IMPRESSIONS
NURSERY RHYMES À LA MODE
A MAUDLE-IN BALLAD
QUITE THE CHEESE
AFTER WILLIAM WATSON
THE THREE MICE
AFTER KIPLING
FUZZY WUZZY LEAVES US
A BALLAD
JACK AND JILL
THE LEGEND OF REALISM
AFTER STEPHEN PHILLIPS
LITTLE JACK HORNER
THE CULT OF THE CELTIC
BEHOLD THE DEEDS!
CULTURE IN THE SLUMS
A BALLADE OF BALLADE-MONGERS
BEAUTIFUL SNOW
THE TALE OF LORD LOVELL
"SONGS WITHOUT WORDS"
THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN
TURTLE SOUP
SOME DAY
IF I SHOULD DIE TO-NIGHT
A LOVE SONG
OLD FASHIONED FUN
THEMES WITH VARIATIONS
GOOSE À LA MODE
THREE CHILDREN SLIDING
JACK AND JILL
JACK AND JILL
THE REJECTED "NATIONAL HYMNS"
A THEME WITH VARIATIONS
SONG
THE POETS AT TEA
THE POETS AT A HOUSE-PARTY
AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS
INDEX OF TITLES
INDEX OF AUTHORS
