A Parody Anthology

by Unknown

Staccato to O Le Lupe is from “Last Scenes from Vagabondia," by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, published by Messrs. Small, Maynard & Company.

The two poems by Ben King are published by Forbes & Co.

The following are published by Charles Scribner's Sons: Song, from “The Book of Joyous Children," by James Whitcomb Riley; Home Sweet Home, and Imitation, from “Poems" of H. C. Bunner; and Song of a Heart, and Godiva, from “Overheard in a Garden," by Oliver Herford.

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CONTENTS

After Omar Khayyam		Page
The Golfer's Rubaiyat	H. W. Boynton	[3]
An Omar for Ladies	Josephine Daskam Bacon	[5]
The Modern Rubaiyat	Kate Masterson	[7]
Lines Written by Request	Owen Seaman	[10]
The Baby's Omar	Carolyn Wells	[12]
After Chaucer
Ye Clerke of ye Wethere	Anonymous	[14]
After Spenser
A Portrait	John Keats	[15]
After Shakespeare
The Bachelor's Soliloquy	Anonymous	[17]
Poker	Anonymous	[18]
Toothache	Anonymous	[19]
A Dreary Song	Shirley Brooks	[20]
To the Stall-holders at a Fancy Fair	W. S. Gilbert	[21]
Song	J. W. Riley	[22]
The Whist Player's Soliloquy	Carolyn Wells	[23]
After Wither
Answer to Master Wither's Song	Ben Jonson	[25]
After Herrick
Song	Oliver Herford	[27]
To Julia Under Lock and Key	Owen Seaman	[27]
After Nursery Rhymes
An Idyll of Phatte and Leene	Anonymous	[29]
Nursery Song in Pidgin English	Anonymous	[30]
The House that Jack Built	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[31]
Boston Nursery Rhymes	Rev. Joseph Cook	[32]
A Song of a Heart	Oliver Herford	[33]
The Domicile of John	A. Pope	[34]
Mary and the Lamb	Frank Dempster Sherman	[37]
After Waller
The Aesthete to the Rose	Punch	[40]
After Dryden
Three Blessings	Anonymous	[41]
Oyster Crabs	Carolyn Wells	[41]
After Dr. Watts
The Voice of the Lobster	Lewis Carroll	[42]
The Crocodile	Lewis Carroll	[43]
After Goldsmith
When Lovely Woman	Phœbe Cary	[44]
After Burns
Gaelic Speech	Anonymous	[45]
My Foe	Anonymous	[46]
Rigid Body Sings	J. C. Maxwell	[48]
After Catherine Fanshawe
Cockney Enigma on the Letter H	Horace Mayhew	[49]
After Wordsworth
On Wordsworth	Anonymous	[51]
Jacob	Phœbe Cary	[51]
Fragment	Catherine M. Fanshawe	[52]
Jane Smith	Rudyard Kipling	[54]
Only Seven	Henry S. Leigh	[55]
Lucy Lake	Newton Mackintosh	[57]
After Sir Walter Scott
Young Lochinvar	Anonymous	[58]
After Coleridge
The Ancient Mariner	Anonymous	[61]
Striking	Charles S. Calverley	[64]
After Southey
The Old Man's Cold	Anonymous	[66]
Father William	Lewis Carroll	[67]
Lady Jane	A. T. Quiller-Couch	[69]
After Campbell
The New Arrival	George W. Cable	[72]
John Thompson's Daughter	Phœbe Cary	[73]
After Thomas Moore
The Last Cigar	Anonymous	[76]
'Twas Ever Thus	Anonymous	[77]
There's a Bower of Bean-Vines	Phœbe Cary	[78]
Disaster	Charles S. Calverley	[79]
Sarah's Halls	Judy	[80]
'Twas Ever Thus	Henry S. Leigh	[81]
After Jane Taylor
The Bat	Lewis Carroll	[82]
After Barry Cornwall
The Tea	Tom Hood, Jr.	[83]
After Byron
The Rout of Belgravia	Jon Duan	[84]
A Grievance	J. K. Stephen	[85]
After Charles Wolfe
The Burial of the Bachelor	Anonymous	[88]
Not a Sou had He Got	R. Harris Barham	[89]
The Marriage of Sir John Smith	Phœbe Cary	[91]
After Mrs. Hemans
The Thyroid Gland	R. M.	[93]
After Keats
Ode on a Jar of Pickles	Bayard Taylor	[94]
After Heine
Imitation	H. C. Bunner	[96]
Commonplaces	Rudyard Kipling	[97]
After Hood
The Dripping Sheet	Anonymous	[98]
I Remember, I Remember	Phœbe Cary	[101]
After Alfred Bunn
A Yule Tide Parody	Anonymous	[103]
Self-Evident	J. R. Planché	[104]
After Lord Macaulay
The Laureate's Tourney	William Aytoun	[105]
After Emerson
Mutton	Anonymous	[113]
After Mary Howitt
The Lobster Quadrille	Lewis Carroll	[114]
After Mrs. Browning
In the Gloaming	Charles S. Calverley	[116]
Gwendoline	Bayard Taylor	[118]
After Longfellow
The Modern Hiawatha	Anonymous	[120]
Higher	Anonymous	[120]
Topside Galah	Anonymous	[122]
Excelsior	Anonymous	[124]
The Day is Done	Phœbe Cary	[126]
A Psalm of Life	Phœbe Cary	[127]
How Often	Ben King	[129]
Desolation	Thomas Masson	[130]
The Birds and the Pheasant	Punch	[131]
After Whittier
Hiram Hover	Bayard Taylor	[133]
After Mrs. Norton
The Horse and his Master	Philip F. Allen	[136]
The New Version	W. J. Lampton	[138]
After Poe
What Troubled Poe's Raven	John Bennett	[139]
The Amateur Flute	Anonymous	[140]
Samuel Brown	Phœbe Cary	[142]
The Promissory Note	Bayard Taylor	[143]
The Cannibal Flea	Tom Hood, Jr.	[145]
Annabel Lee	Stanley Huntley	[147]
The Bells	Judy	[148]
The Goblin Goose	Punch	[150]
After Lord Houghton
Love and Science	Anonymous	[153]
After Tennyson
The Bather's Dirge	Tennyson Minor	[155]
Little Miss Muffet	Anonymous	[156]
The Musical Pitch	Anonymous	[158]
To an Importunate Host	Anonymous	[158]
The Village Choir	Anonymous	[159]
The Biter Bit	William Aytoun	[161]
The Laureate	William Aytoun	[163]
The Lay of the Lovelorn	William Aytoun	[165]
In Immemoriam	Cuthbert Bede	[174]
Sir Eggnogg	Bayard Taylor	[175]
Godiva	Oliver Herford	[177]
A Laureate's Log	Punch	[178]
The Recognition	Wm. Sawyer	[180]
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell	A. C. Swinburne	[180]
Timbuctoo	W. M. Thackeray	[183]
After Tupper
Of Friendship	Charles S. Calverley	[185]
Of Reading	Charles S. Calverley	[186]
After Thackeray
The Willow-Tree	W. M. Thackeray	[188]
After Charles Dickens
Man's Place in Nature	Anonymous	[191]
After Robert Browning
Home Truths from Abroad	Anonymous	[193]
After Browning	Anonymous	[194]
The Cock and the Bull	Charles S. Calverley	[195]
A Staccato to O Le Lupe	Bliss Carman	[200]
By the Sea	Bayard Taylor	[203]
Angelo Orders his Dinner	Bayard Taylor	[205]
The Flight of the Bucket	Rudyard Kipling	[206]
The Jam Pot	Rudyard Kipling	[210]
Imitation of Robert Browning	J. K. Stephen	[210]
The Last Ride Together	J. K. Stephen	[212]
Up the Spout	A. C. Swinburne	[215]
After Walt Whitman
An American, one of the Roughs, a Kosmos	Anonymous	[219]
Camerados	Bayard Taylor	[220]
Imitation of Whitman	Judy	[221]
Imitation of Whitman	J. K. Stephen	[224]
The Poet and the Woodlouse	A. C. Swinburne	[224]
After Charles Kingsley
Three Little Fishers	Frank H. Stauffer	[229]
The Three Poets	Lilian Whiting	[230]
After Mrs. R. H. Stoddard
The Nettle	Bayard Taylor	[231]
After Bayard Taylor
Hadramaut	Bayard Taylor	[233]
After William Morris
Estunt the Griff	Rudyard Kipling	[235]
After Alfred Austin
An Ode	Anthony C. Deane	[237]
After W. S. Gilbert
Ode to a London Fog	Anonymous	[239]
President Garfield	Anonymous	[240]
Propinquity Needed	Charles Battell Loomis	[241]
After R. H. Stoddard
The Cantelope	Bayard Taylor	[243]
After A. A. Proctor
The Lost Voice	A. H. S.	[244]
The Lost Ape	J. W. G. W.	[245]
The Lost Word	C. H. Webb	[246]
After George Meredith
At the Sign of the Cock	Owen Seaman	[248]
After D. G. Rossetti
A Christmas Wail	Anonymous	[252]
Ballad	Charles S. Calverley	[253]
Cimabuella	Bayard Taylor	[255]
The Poster Girl	Carolyn Wells	[257]
After Jean Ingelow
Lovers, and a Reflection	Charles S. Calverley	[259]
The Shrimp Gatherers	Bayard Taylor	[261]
After Christina Rossetti
Remember	Judy	[263]
After Lewis Carroll
Waggawocky	Shirley Brooks	[264]
The Vulture and the Husband-Man	A. C. Hilton	[265]
After A. C. Swinburne
Gillian	Anonymous	[268]
Atalanta in Camden-town	Lewis Carroll	[270]
The Manlet	Lewis Carroll	[272]
If	Mortimer Collins	[274]
The Maid of the Meerschaum	Rudyard Kipling	[275]
Quaeritur	Rudyard Kipling	[277]
A Melton Mowbray Pork-pie	Richard Le Gallienne	[278]
Foam and Fangs	Walter Parke	[278]
A Song of Renunciation	Owen Seaman	[279]
Nephelidia	A. C. Swinburne	[282]
The Lay of Macaroni	Bayard Taylor	[284]
After Bret Harte
The Heathen Pass-ee	A. C. Hilton	[286]
De Tea Fabula	A. T. Quiller-Couch	[289]
After Austin Dobson
The Prodigals	Anonymous	[292]
After Andrew Lang
Bo-Peep	Anthony C. Deane	[294]
After W. E. Henley
Imitation	Anthony C. Deane	[296]
After R. L. Stevenson
Bed During Exams	Clara Warren Vail	[298]
After Oscar Wilde
More Impressions	Oscuro Wildgoose	[299]
Nursery Rhymes à la Mode	Anonymous	[299]
A Maudle-In Ballad	Punch	[300]
Quite the Cheese	H. C. Waring	[302]
After William Watson
The Three Mice	Anthony C. Deane	[304]
After Kipling
Fuzzy Wuzzy Leaves Us	E. P. C.	[305]
A Ballad	Guy Wetmore Carryl	[307]
Jack and Jill	Anthony C. Deane	[309]
The Legend of Realism	Hilda Johnson	[313]
After Stephen Phillips
Little Jack Horner	Anthony C. Deane	[315]
After Fiona McLeod
The Cult of the Celtic	Anthony C. Deane	[317]
After Various Writers of Vers de Société
Behold the Deeds	H. C. Bunner	[319]
Culture in the Slums	W. E. Henley	[322]
A Ballade of Ballade-Mongers	Augustus Moore	[322]
After Various Popular Songs
Beautiful Snow	Anonymous	[324]
The Newest Thing in Christmas Carols	Anonymous	[325]
The Tale of Lord Lovell	Anonymous	[326]
“Songs Without Words"	Robert J. Burdette	[327]
The Elderly Gentleman	George Canning	[328]
Turtle Soup	Lewis Carroll	[329]
Some Day	F. P. Doveton	[329]
If I Should Die To-night	Ben King	[331]
A Love Song	Dean Swift	[331]
Old Fashioned Fun	W. M. Thackeray	[333]
Themes with Variations
Home Sweet Home with Variations	H. C. Bunner	[334]
Modern Versification on Ancient Themes
Goose à la Mode	E. Cavazza	[346]
Three Children Sliding		[346]
Jack and Jill	E. Cavazza	[347]
Jack and Jill	Charles Battell Loomis	[348]
The Rejected “National Hymns"	Robert Henry Newell	[352]
A Theme with Variations	Barry Pain	[356]
The Poets at Tea	Barry Pain	[359]
The Poets at a House Party	Carolyn Wells	[363]
An Old Song by New Singers	A. C. Wilkie	[368]
Index of Titles		[375]
Index of Authors		[385]
Index of Authors Parodied		[395]

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INTRODUCTION
PARODY AS A FINE ART