CONTENTS.
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Preface
The Pugsley Papers
An Ancient Concert; by a Venerable Director
A Letter from an Emigrant
Sonnet on Steam; by an Under-Ostler
A Report from Below
The Last Shilling
Ode to M. Brunel
The Death of the Dominie
Over the Way
A Plan for Writing Blank Verse in Rhyme, in a Letter to the Editor
A Letter from a Market Gardener to the Secretary of the Horticultural Society
Domestic Asides; or Truth in Parenthesis
Black, White, and Brown
Composed on Reading a Diary lately published
The Last Wish
The Devil’s Album
The Schoolmaster Abroad
The Lost Heir
The Observer
The Contrast
John Day; a pathetic ballad
The Parish Revolution
The Furlough; an Irish anecdote
Number One; versified from the prose of a Young Lady
The Drowning Ducks
An Assent to the Summut of Mount Blank
Sally Simpkin’s Lament; or John Jones’s Kit-Cat-Astrophe
A Horse-Dealer
The Fall
The Illuminati
Sonnet
The Steam Service
A Lay of Real Life
A Valentine. The Weather—To P. Murphy, Esq., M.N.S.
The Elland Meeting
Poem,—from the Polish
A Step-father
Conveyancing
A Letter from a Settler for Life in Van Diemen’s Land
Sonnet
A Serio-Comic Reminiscence
Epicurean Reminiscences of a Sentimentalist
Saint Mark’s Eve—A tale of the olden time
I’m not a Single Man
A Greenwich Pensioner
The Burning of the Love Letter
Sketches on the Road
The Apparition
The Discovery
Little O’P.—An African Fact
The Debutante
The Angler’s Farewell
Popping the Question
Sea Song
The Black and White Question
Stanzas on Coming of Age
The Pillory
A singular Exhibition at Somerset House
The Yeomanry
An Unfavourable Review
Look before you Leap
Ode—To the Advocates Removal of Smithfield Market
Drawn for a Soldier
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Eve
Reflections on Water
A Blow-up
The Wooden Leg
The Ghost—A very Serious Ballad
A Tale of the Great Plague
Ode to Madame Hengler, Firework-maker to Vauxhall
Rhyme and Reason
The Double Knock
A Foxhunter
Bailey Ballads
Lines to Mary—No. I
No. II.
No. III.
Letter—from a Parish Clerk in Barbadoes to one in Hampshire, with an Enclosure
French and English
Our Village
The Scrape Book
A True Story
The Sorrows of an Undertaker
The Carelesse Nurse Mayd
To Fanny
The Fancy Fair
Poems, by a Poor Gentleman
Stanzas—written under the Fear of Bailiffs
Sonnet—written in a Workhouse
Sonnet—A Somnambulist
Fugitive Lines on Pawning my Watch
The Life of Zimmerman (by Himself)
The Portrait; being an apology for not making an Attempt on my own Life
The Compass, with Variations
Summer—A Winter Eclogue
Pair’d not match’d
The Duel—A Serious Ballad
The Rope Dancer—An Extravaganza, after Rabelais
Sonnet to Vauxhall
Ode to Mr. Malthus
A Good Direction
The Pleasures of Sporting
There’s no Romance in that
The Abstraction
A Waterloo Ballad
Miller Redivivus
A Zoological Report
Literary Reminiscences
Shooting Pains
The Schoolmaster’s Motto
HOOD’S OWN:
OR, LAUGHTER FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
A PASTORALE IN A FLAT.