End of Volume V.

INDEX.

The Authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in italics, followed by the Parodies. The Authors of the Parodies are named in italics.

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Joseph Addison.
On the Immortality of the Soul. “Cato”[311]
Mitchell’s Soliloquy. 1729[311]
The Belle’s Soliloquy. J. P. Roberdeau[312]
Lady Townley’s Soliloquy[312]
“Ovid, it must be so--thou reason’st well”[312]
Joseph Addison’s prose writings parodied in Posthumous Parodies. 1814[312]
Rev. Richard Harris Barham.
The Ingoldsby Legends[293]
Misadventures at Margate[293]
The Vulgar Little Boy[294]
Misadventures at the Mansion House. Truth[295]
The Little Vulgar (Scotch) Boy. Punch. 1881[296]
Sixty Years after. The Globe. 1887[296]
The Little Bulgar Boy. Punch. 1885[297]
The Boy and the Bear. Punch. 1887[297]
The Jackdaw of Rheims. 1837[297]
The Story of the Latest Curse. Truth. 1888[298]
The Execution[299]
The Frolics of Boreas[300]
A Parliamentary Legend[300]
The Lord of Intrigue. 1876.[301]
The Devil’s Billiard Match. Rare Bits.[301]
A Row in the Upper Circles. Judy. 1880[302]
The Enchanted Net. Mirth & Metre. 1855[303]
Handy Jack. Punch. 1882[304]
The Cardinal’s Hat. Ipsedixit. 1851[304]
Temptation of the Good St. Gladstone. 1886[305]
The Roll Scroll of the Odd Volumes. 1888[306]
Barney Maguire on the Coronation. 1837[306]
Barney Maguire on the Jubilee. Lady’s Pictorial[307]
A Lay of St. Dunstan’s. 1882 (on Temple Bar and the Griffin)[308]
Pigeon shooting at Hurlingham. R. L. Francis[309]
A I Laye a-thynkyne[310]
As I Sate a-drynkynge[310]
The Jingoldsby Legends. 1882[311]
The Corkscrew Papers. 1876[311]
Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Contradictory statements as to her birth[228]
Mr. Ingram’s final settlement of the date[229]
Mrs. Browning’s personal appearance[229]
The Cry of the Children[229]
The Wail of the Children. Punch. 1884[230]
The Bitter Cry of Agriculture. J. D. Beeston[230]
Church or Stage. The Referee. 1884[231]
Down East. Edmund H. Yates[231]
Gwendoline. Echo Club Papers, Bayard Taylor[232]
A Tool of Trade[232]
The Origin of Pan. Harry Furniss[232]
The Rhyme of Sir Launcelot Bogle[233]
The Spirit of Mrs. Browning to her husband. From Strange Visitors. New York. 1869[273]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The Ancient Mariner. 1798[107]
The Sheriff’s Officer. 1834[108]
Le lecturé malgré lui. 1847[108]
The Rhime of the Seedy Barrister. 1847[109]
The Prolix Orator. 1849[110]
The Rime of the Ancient Alderman. In V. Parts. Shirley Brooks. 1855[110]
The Ancient Mariner, or the Deceived Husband[112]
Classical versus Modern. 1869[113]
New Version of Ancient Mariner. W. J. Wiegand.[113]
The Rime of the Modern Shipowner. 1873[113]
The Fight of the Fifth of November. 1874[114]
The Rime of the Ancient Premier. 1875[115]
The Rime of ye Ancient Dowager. 1876. (On Henry Irving in Othello)[115]
The Wedding Guest’s Version. 1878[116]
The Rhyme of the Ancient Blue. 1881[117]
The Rime of the Potent Minister. 1882[117]
Our Regimental Mess. E. Oliver[118]
An American Version. 1885[118]
The Admiralty Goose. 1885[118]
The Rime of the Antient Missionere. 1886[119]
Ye Ancient Father Thames. Truth Competition Parodies. 1884[120]
The Lay of the Modern Millinere. 1886[121]
The Ancient Philosopher. W. J. Prowse. 1868[122]
The Rime of the Ancient Waggonere. 1819[122]
The Cockney Mariner. G. A. à Beckett. 1846[122]
The Rime of the New-made Baccalere. 1841[122]
The Wise Men of Gotham. T. L. Peacock.[123]
It was an Ancient Marriager. 1885[123]
The Rime of the Ancient Statesman. 1874[123]
The Birmingham Speech, by W. E. G. 1880[123]
The Rime of the Ancient Rinking Man. 1876[123]
The Meeting of the Justices. 1867[123]
The Ancient Story (Tichborne case)[136]
Love[123]
The Power of Science. J. B. Stephens. 1880[124]
To a Young Ass. 1794[126]
Playhouse Musings. Rejected Addresses. 1812[125]
Kubla Khan.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan[126]
In Hungerford did some wise man. 1844[127]
Christabel. 1797[127]
Continuation by Dr. Maginn. 1819[129]
The Dream. Warreniana. 1824[131]
A Parody of Christabelle. The Dejeuné. 1820[133]
Christobell, a Gothic Tale. 1815[135]
Geraldine, a sequel to Christabel. Martin F. Tupper. 1838[135]
Christabel, continued. Eliza Stewart. 1841[135]
Christabess, by S. T. Colebritche. 1816[135]
Isabelle. James Hogg. 1816[135]
The Cherub. 1816[135]
Chrystabelle; or, the Rose without a Thorn. Edmund Falconer. 1860[135]
Notes of other Parodies of Christabel[135]
A Vision. Thomas Moore. 1826[135]
Fragment of a Vision. William Maginn. 1821[136]
The Devil’s Progress on Earth[189]
The Devil’s Walk, variously ascribed to Professor Porson, Robert Southey, and to S. T. Coleridge[189]
Various Imitations[190]
Satan Reformer. 1832[191]
The Devil’s Drive. Lord Byron.[191]
Death’s Walk. 1832[192]
The Printer’s Devil’s Work. 1832[192]
The Devil’s Dream. The Hornet. 1871[193]
The Devil’s Politics. 1878[194]
The Forestaller’s Walk. 1881[194]
The Devil’s Walk. 1883[194]
The Devil’s latest Walk. 1887[195]
The Devil’s Excursion to London. W. Phillips[195]
There’s a Lying Spirit Abroad. E. A. Beard[196]
William Collins.
Ode on the Passions[312]
Ode to the Passions[313]
The Aspirants. An Ode for Music. From Posthumous Parodies. 1814[313]
The Victims. Thomas Dibdin. 1813[314]
The Sessions. An Ode for Music. C. H. Waring[314]
Ode to the Fashions. Comic News. 1864[315]
William Cowper.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin. 1782.[64]
Mrs. Gilpin riding to Edmonton[67]
The History of Moore’s Life of Byron. 1831[67]
A Ballad for all True Sportsmen. 1845. “Prince Albert is a Sportsman Bold”[67]
The Political John Gilpin. (George Bentinck)[68]
The new John Gilpin. (Sir Robert Peel.) 1846[68]
The Modern Peeping Tom. (Viscount Ranelagh). 1868[69]
The Railway Gilpin[70]
The Diverting History of Tom Tucker. 1831[71]
John Gilpin’s Voyage to Vauxhall. 1885[71]
Davy Jones. B. de Burgh. 1823[71]
John Gilpin in Latin[71]
The Connaught Rangers. 1876[72]
Paudy and the Mormon. J. H. Turner. 1878[72]
Burbaban’s Defeat. 1863[86]
The Modern Gilpin, or the adventures of John Oldstock. 1838[322]
The Rose[72]
Cowper’s first draft of the poem[72]
My Uniform, by a Volunteer in 1860[72]
April, or the new hat. C. S. Calverley[73]
The Rink had been washed. A. W. Mackenzie[73]
The Rose and the Buckets. 1812[73]
To Mary
Mary Anderson. 1883[73]
The Negro’s Complaint[74]
On the Death of the Princess of Wales. 1819[76]
Bishop Philpott’s Complaint. 1833[74]
Lord Grey’s Complaint. 1834[74]
Jumbo s Jeremiad. 1882[74]
The School Boy’s Complaint[75]
Farewell to the Camp. Shirley Brooks. 1853[75]
“I am Monarch of all I survey”[76]
Verses supposed to have been written by Leigh Hunt. “I am tenant of nine-feet by four”[77]
Verses ascribed to the Duke of Wellington[77]
The Monarch of all they survey. By a Railway Director. 1845[78]
Verses ascribed to William Smith O’Brien.[78]
The original song of Robinson Crusoe. 1848[78]
Ballad of the Exeter Arcade Beadle. 1848[79]
A Savage Parody. 1867[79]
Lines by the “Head of the Family.” 1871[79]
“She is Monarch of all she surveys.” 1874[80]
Enforced Solitude. 1874[80]
Verses ascribed to Dr. E. V. Kenealy. 1875[80]
The Frozen-out Fox Hunter. The World. 1879[81]
The Lay of the New Ameer. 1879[81]
Ex-King Cetewayo’s Lament. 1879[81]
I am “Cock of the Walk.” F. B. Doveton[82]
The Griffin’s Lament. 1880[82]
The Parvenu. 1882[82]
Lawn Tennis. A. W. Mackenzie. 1883[83]
On the Annexation of New Guinea. 1883[83]
Soliloquy by a Disgusted Dandy. 1883[83]
Verses by Salisbury Selkirk. 1884[84]
The Tortures of Tourists. 1885[84]
The Limited “Monarch.” 1885[85]
A song for Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. 1886[85]
The Lament of the Sportive M.P. 1886[85]
Verses by Sir Charles Warren. 1887[86]
Lines supposed to be written by Robinson Crusoe. C. M. Fanshawe[102]
A Riddle by William Cowper. 1806[86]
The Answer[86]
“Bless my Heart, how Cold it is”[87]
Thomas Gray.
An Elegy wrote in a Country Church-yard. 1751[1]
A Reprint of the first edition, and history of the poem.
An Evening contemplation in a College. 1753 John Duncombe, M.A.[3]
The Nunnery, an Elegy[5]
Elegy on “The Guardian outwitted.” 1764[6]
An Epitaph on a certain Poet[7]
An Elegy in Covent Garden. 1777[7]
An Elegy in Westminster Hall[9]
An Elegy written in St. Stephens. 1784[10]
Elegy written in a Grub street Garret. 1789[10]
Elegy written in Bartlemy Fair. 1810[11]
Elegy written in Drury Lane Theatre. 1818[12]
Elegy written at a Christmas Feast. 1803[13]
Elegiac Stanzas written in a London Alley[14]
Elegy on the Last of the Lotteries[15]
Elegy written in King’s Bench Prison. 1821[16]
  “    “     “    “   by A Minor.[17]
Epitaph on a late Administration. 1811[18]
An Elegy in a London Churchyard. 1799[18]
Nightly Thoughts in the Temple. 1806[19]
Nocturnal Contemplations in Barham Downs Camp. 1806[20]
Elegy on a Pair of Breeches. T. Brand. 1818[22]
Elegy written in a College Library. 1824[22]
Elegy on the Death of Bow Fair. 1823[23]
The Long Vacation, 1823[23]
Lucubrations in an Apothecary’s shop[24]
Elegy on Sir Francis Burdett, M.P. 1811[24]
Elegy addressed to a little Attorney. 1819[25]
Elegy written in the Long Vacation. 1831[26]
The Woes of Change. T. Dibdin. 1832[26]
The Gambler. 1832[27]
Dry Goods: A Manchester Elegy. 1833[28]
Meditations on Barry’s New Houses of Parliament. 1844[28]
Elegy in a London Theatre. 1843[29]
Night Thoughts. Albert Smith (?) 1848[30]
Elegy in a London Churchyard. 1849[30]
  “       “     “   Diogenes. 1853[30]
Elegy on a Betting office. 1853[31]
Elegy written in a Railway Station. 1853[31]
Elegy written near a Suburban Station House.[32]
A Lunatic Parody. Fun. 1865[33]
Elegy written in the House of Commons. 1867[33]
An Elegy on Cremation. 1875[34]
Lament of the Eminent One. (H. Irving.) The Figaro, 1875[34]
Elegy written in Rotten Row. 1876[34]
Elegy written in a Country Skating Rink. 1877[35]
Cremorne: An Elegy. 1878[36]
Circuit Elegy. By Lord Chelmsford. 1881[36]
Elegy on a favourite Washerwoman. 1882[37]
Gray’s Elegy in an Irish Prison. 1882[38]
The S.K. Ring’s Requiem. 1886[38]
Parnell-egy in Westminster Palace. 1887[38]
Epitaph on “The Pic-Nic.” 1803[39]
Epitaph on a noted Highwayman. 1806[39]
A Political Parody. The British Press. 1812[39]
Elegy in St Stephen’s Chapel. 1809[40]
Elegy for “The Mirror.” 1825[41]
Elegy written in a Town Church-yard. 1885[41]
Elegy in Newall’s Buildings[42]
The Scales[42]
Lord Grey’s Elegy. 1881[42]
A Perversion[42]
The Author[42]
Pensive in a Bone Yard. 1885[42]
Imitations of “The Elegy”[42]
A Supplement to Gray’s “Elegy.” 1823[42]
The Foundlings. An Elegy. 1763[43]
An Evening Contemplation in a French Prison. 1809[43]
An Elegy written under a Gallows. 1768[43]
Lord Mayor’s Day. A Mock Elegy. 1786[43]
Elegy written at Bristol Hot Wells. 1789[44]
Elegy written in Poet’s Corner. 1803[44]
The Nunnery[44]
Elegy written on a Field of Battle. 1818[44]
Elegy written in a City Churchyard. 1848[44]
Translations of “The Elegy”[44]
“The Elegy” in French[45]
Articles and Notes on “The Elegy”[48]
Legs in Tattersall’s yard. 1828[46]
An Elegy on the Departed Season. 1867[47]
“The Elegy” in Latin[317]
An Imitation of the “Elegy.” By a Sailor[317]
Elegy in Newgate. The Satirist. 1810[317]
Elegy written in the Temple Gardens, by Mr. Justice Hayes[317]
Elegy written in a Ball Room. W. Maginn[318]
The Elegy “travestied.” The Umpire. 1888[318]
“Wimbledon,” an Elegy. July 1888. E. B. Anstee, L.R.B.[319]
Parody in The Court of Session Garland by Colin Maclaurin[320]
INDEX TO FIRST LINES.
The Curfeu tolls the knell of parting Day[2]
The Curfew tolls the hour of closing gates[3]
Retirement’s hour proclaims the tolling Bell[5]
The shrill bell rings the knell of “Curtain rise”[6]
St. Paul’s proclaims the solemn midnight hour[7]
The Courts are shut--departed every Judge[9]
Gazettes now toll the melancholy knell[10]
Now sinks the sun within the azure main[10]
The clock bell tolls the hour of early day[11]
The prompter rings the lofty curtain down[12]
The clock proclaims the welcome dinner hour[13]
The watchman drawls the hour of dawning day[14]
The Chancellor has passed the stern decree[15]
The turnkey rings the bell for shutting out[16]
The surly crier rings his nightly knell[17]
Great Tom now sounds the close of busy day[18]
St. Dunstan’s bells proclaim departing day[19]
The moon slow setting sends a parting ray[20]
The chapel bell, with hollow mournful sound[22]
The Bow-bell tolls the knell of Bow-fair fun[23]
My Lord now quits his venerable seat[23]
The twilight curtains round the busy day[24]
The pealing clock proclaims the close of day[24]
The Judges toll the knell of Burdett’s fame[24]
The vacant seats proclaim the parting day[26]
Improvement tolls the knell of what, of yore[26]
The lamps refract the gleam of parting day[27]
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day[28]
The wharf-bell tolls the knell of starting steam[28]
The curtain falls, the signal all is o’er[29]
Saint Martin tolls the hour of long past day[30]
The sexton tolls the knell till parting day[30]
St. Clement’s tolls the knell of parting day[30]
The Station clock proclaims the close of day[31]
The muffin-bell proclaims the parting day[32]
The curlew rolls amidst the darting spray[33]
The big clock tolls the knell of parting day[33]
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day[34]
The Park proclaims the season’s had its day[34]
The church clock strikes the knell of parting day[35]
The builder tolls the knell of Cremorne’s day[36]
The trumpets sound the coming of the Judge[36]
Farewell old friend, and memory ever dear[37]
They think to toll the knell of prisoned Gray[38]
The turret-clock proclaims the hour eleven[38]
The clock-tow’r tolls the bell of coming day[38]
The candles tell the close of parting day[40]
The pealing clock proclaims the close of day[41]
The church-bells peal the message[41]
The clanging crow-bar rings the pile’s decay[42]
The piano sounds the knell of parting day[42]
Rads toll the knell of England’s passing day[42]
Le rappel a marqué le jour en son déclin[45]
The dustman tolls the coming of the morn[46]
The porter tolls the bell on starting day[47]
The whistle shrieks the knell of parting day[48]
The Curfew tolls the hour of locking up[317]
The gard’ner rings the bell at close of day[317]
The beaux are jogging on the pictured floor[318]
The shops are closed--the sign of closing day[318]
The sound of gunfire marked the closing day[319]
The bell now tolls, soon after dawn of day[320]
Ode on the Spring [48]
Ode on the Spring, by a Man of Fashion[48]
Ode on the closing of the House of Commons[49]
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat[49]
’Twas in a new constructed boat. 1805[50]
’Twas on the pavement of a Lane. 1800[50]
’Twas on the lofty Treasury’s side. 1762[51]
Ode on the Amputation of a Cat’s Tail. 1795[51]
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 1747[51]
Ode on Ranelagh. 1775[52]
Ode to Sir John Soane. 1824[53]
Ode on the Distant Prospect of a Good Dinner. Blackwood’s Magazine. 1828[53]
Ode on a Prospect of the Abolition of Eton Montem. 1846[54]
Ode on a Close Prospect of Eton. 1882[54]
The Bard. A Pindaric Ode[54]
The Bard. A Covent Garden Ode. 1809[56]
The Union (Cambridge). 1817[57]
The Barber. Thomas Erskine. 1824[58]
“Ruin seize thee, ruthless Earl.” The World. Competition Parody. 1879[60]
“Ruin seize thee, reckless guide”[60]
“Plague upon thee, Earl of B----.” F. B. Doveton. 1880[61]
The Bostonian Prophet. 1779[61]
Parody in the Life of Mrs. M. A. Clarke. 1809. (Connected with the Duke of York)[61]
The Descent of Odin[61]
The Descent of Timothy. J. H. Beattie. 1794[61]
The Triumphs of Owen. Shirley Brooks. 1861[62]
Gray’s Pindaric Odes[63]
Ode to Oblivion.   By G. Colman[63]
Ode to Obscurity.   and R. Lloyd[63]
Ode for Music. Cambridge. 1769[63]
Two Travesties. 1786[63]
A Long Story[64]
A sequel. John Penn[64]
A sequel. Henry James Pye[64]
Latin translations of Gray’s Poems. 1775[64]
Mason’s continuation of Gray’s Ode[64]
Runic Odes, in the manner of Mr. Gray. Thomas James Mathias. 1781[64]
Ode in imitation of Gray. C. M. Fanshawe[102]
John Home.
My Name is Norval. (From “Douglas”)[206]
My name is Moses. J. P. Roberdeau[206]
My name’s the Doctor. 1819[207]
My name is Scragg’em[207]
My name’s Tom Dibdin. The Times. 1803[207]
My name is Whitbread. Morning Post. 1812[208]
My name is Canning. The Mélange. 1834[208]
My name is Lardner. 1831[208]
“My name is Norval,” burlesqued[208]
My name is Randolph. Figaro. 1886[209]
My name is Balfour. Fun. 1887[209]
Leigh Hunt.
Abou Ben Adhem[144]
Making up the Slate[144]
Ben Disraeli. 1867[144]
The Bluecoat Boy[144]
Abou Ben Folsom[144]
Adam Mac Adam[144]
Abou Ben Butler. 1886[145]
Francesca Da Rimini. Bon Gaultier Ballads[145]
A Nursery Ode. Warreniana[145]
Carlotta Grisi[145]
Song of October[146]
Manners (Lord John) and Civility[146]
Matthew Gregory Lewis.
Alonzo the Brave, and the fair Imogine[137]
Giles Jollup the grave, and Brown Sally Green[138]
Pilgarlic the Brave, and Brown Celestine[136]
St. George and Caroline. 1820[139]
Colenso the Brave. Shirley Brooks. 1865[139]
Alfonso of Spain. 1875[140]
A Terrible Tale. The Referee. 1884[140]
Fire and Ale. Rejected Addresses. 1812[141]
Fire and Water. 1887[142]
Peggy the Gay, and the Bold Roger Gray. The True Briton. 1799[321]
“A Bulldog so fierce, and a Spaniel so meek”[321]
The Little Green Man[321]
“Lemona was daughter of Hudda the Brave”[321]
The Erl King and the Cloud King[142]
The Cinder King [142]
The Fire King, the Water King, and the Cotton King. 1832.[142]
The old Hag in a Red Cloak. 1802[142]
The Squeaking Ghost. 1804[321]
Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton.
A Midnight Meditation. W. E. Aytoun[222]
The New Timon. 1846[223]
The New Timon and the Poets. A. Tennyson[223]
O, Darling room, my heart’s delight[223]
Lord Lytton’s foppery[224]
The Lady of Lyons. 1838[224]
The Bellows Mender. By W. T. Moncrieff[224]
Melnotte’s Speech on his (Visionary) Palace[224]
A Parody from “Cinderella.” Albert Smith[224]
A Parody from H. J. Byron’s burlesque “The very latest Edition of the Lady of Lyons”[225]
The Model Health Palace[225]
The Lady of Lyons Married and Settled. By H. C. Merivale[225]
The Sea Captain; or, the Birthright. 1839[225]
Thackeray’s burlesque criticism on the play[226]
The Rightful Heir. Lyceum Theatre. 1868[228]
The Frightful Hair; or, Who Shot the Dog?[228]
The Right-Fall Hair. H. T. Arden[228]
The very last Days of Pompeii. R. Reece[228]
An Epigram. W. S. Landor[228]
Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay.
Lord Macaulay at tea[103]
The Armada. 1832[146]
A Conclusion by Dr. W. C. Bennett[146]
A Conclusion by the Rev. H. C. Leonard[147]
The Feast of Lanterns. Shirley Brooks. 1863[149]
The Lord Mayor’s Show. The World. 1879[150]
On Gladstone’s Midlothian Speeches. 1884[151]
Horatius [151]
The Fight of the Crescent. Cambridge. 1846[153]
Marcus Curtius, the Honest Lawyer. E. Allen[154]
Gustavus of Drury Lane. E. H. Yates. 1855[155]
Johnson. E. H. Yates. 1856[156]
Sibthorpius, Puppet Showman’s Album. 1848[159]
The Fight for the Championship (Thomas Sayers and Heenan, 1860). H. C. Pennell.[160]
The Fight of Sayerius and Heenanius. 1860[161]
The Battle of the Bridge (Blackfriars). 1869[162]
A Lay of Ancient Stoke. 1875[163]
Match between Dryburgh and Sludgeborough. Pastime. 1883[164]
The Battle of the Asses’ Bridge. J. M. Lowry.[165]
Harcourtius of Derbiae. Truth. 1884[166]
The Battle of the Institute (of Mechanical Engineers, November 5, 1875)[168]
A Lay of Modern England. Auberon Herbert. Pall Mall Gazette. 1884[169]
Lars Porsenna. College Rhymes. 1855[169]
Mustering of the Hobbies. 1847[170]
The Sibylline Books. 1856[170]
How Titus Manlius Macauleius was made a Patrician. 1857 [170]
The Battle of Lake Glenlivit. S. Lover. 1857[170]
Lay of Modern England. Punch. 1866[171]
The Lay of Mr. Colt. Bon Gaultier.[171]
The Great Durbar. Lyrics and Lays. 1867[172]
Before the Comitia. 1873[172]
The Dauntless Three. A Town and Gown Row. 1874[172]
Thanatos. By the Ghost of Macaulay. 1875[173]
Fifth of November. Town and Gown Row. By Adon. 1874[173]
Christ Church Beseiged. 1877[173]
Lay of the Last Commemoration Dinner. 1880[174]
Obstruction Utilised. 1881[174]
How Horatius kept the Bridge. The Blue. 1881[175]
A Lay of Modern Hammersmith. 1882[175]
How Gladstone won the Election. 1885[175]
Gladstonius. 1885[177]
“Now Joseph C. of Birmingham.” 1885[177]
A Lay of Modern London. 1880[177]
Volumnia[177]
The Battle of the Lake Regillus[178]
The Chiswick Flower Fête. 1846[179]
The Battle of the Vestries. The Tomahawk.[179]
A Lay of Modern London. 1872[180]
The Football Match. 1878[180]
A Prophecy of Capers. Fun.[181]
The Battle of Lake Mort. (The Boat race)[182]
The Dioscuri in Egypt. 1884[183]
In the Arena. 1888[183]
Henry of Navarre[184]
The War of the Normas. (On Jenny Lind and Grisi). Man in the Moon. 1847[184]
The Lord Mayor’s Show. 1884[184]
Ireland, 1890. Topical Times. 1886[184]
The Great Rent Case. 1867[185]
Ivry.
Before the Battle. The Daily News. 1886[185]
Lay of the (Royal) Amphitheatre. 1845[186]
A Lay of Modern England. 1847[186]
The Inauguration of the Mayor. 1851[186]
The City Tournament. Diogenes. 1853[187]
A Lay of Ancient Rome. Albert Smith.[187]
Burlington. J. D. Parley. 1872[187]
Routhe’s Revenge. Light Green. 1882[187]
The New Naseby [187]
Parodies in Punch [188]
Landbillia[188]
Hibernia[188]
Song of December[189]
The Laureate’s Tourney. Bon Gaultier[189]
A Lay of Modern Exon. Exeter 1879[322]
Rev. Thomas Moss.
The Beggar’s Petition
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Man. 1769[203]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Goose. 1804[203]
Hebrew translation. Kottabos. 1881[203]
Pity the Sorrows of a third class man. 1845[204]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old “Stag.” 1845[204]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old bridge. 1846[204]
The Begging Imposter’s Petition. 1849[205]
Pity the troubles of a poor young Prince. 1850[205]
Pity the sorrows of a poor young Girl. 1853[205]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Clerk. 1856[205]
Pity the sorrows of an ill-used Man. 1872[206]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Bar. 1874[206]
Winthrop Mackworth Praed.
The Chaunt of the Brazen Head.[196]
The Chaunt of the Political Brazen Head. 1882[196]
Plus de Politique. 1832[197]
A Lyric from Highbury. Pall Mall. 1886[197]
A Letter of Advice[197]
On an Election at the Athenæum. 1888[197]
I remember, I remember. 1833[198]
The Nelson Column Drama. 1843[198]
The Farmer’s Corn Law Song. 1846[198]
About the Weather[198]
The Bankrupt to the Commissioner. 1848[199]
Mistletoe Anticipations. Cuthbert Bede. 1851[199]
Good Night to the Season[199]
Good-bye to the Commons. 1880[200]
Vale. Punch. 1883[200]
A Parody from Life. 1883[201]
A Parody from Truth. 1885[201]
Farewell to the Season. 1886[201]
So the Jubilee’s over! Truth. 1887[202]
Good-bye to the (Cricketing) Season. Punch[324]
To a Jilt[202]
“Sleep, Mr. Speaker, ’tis surely fair.” By W. M. Praed[202]
Samuel Rogers.
The Pleasures of Memory. 1792[316]
The Pains of Memory. P. Bingham. 1812[316]
On a Tear[316]
On a Tear. Fun[316]
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Forged letters, published in 1852[233]
The Cenci, performance in 1886[233]
The Salacious Shelley Society. Truth 1886[233]
To a Skylark[233]
To a Bicycle. Moonshine. 1885[233]
The Cloud[234]
The Cloudy. The World. 1885[234]
The Cloud, from Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack[234]
The Other Cloud. Punch. 1880[235]
Seaward[235]
Thrown Out. Hugh Cayley[235]
The Tale of the Sensitive “Freak.” The Umpire[236]
Horace Smith.
Address to an Egyptian Mummy[236]
The Answer of the Egyptian Mummy[237]
Lines to the Western Mummy. Gallaudet[238]
On Sir Moses Montefiore. Botcher. 1884[238]
A Parody on Horace Smith’s “George Barnewell.” By Shirley Brooks. 1858[239]
William Makepeace Thackeray.
Violets. By L. E. L.[212]
Cabbages. W. M. Thackeray[212]
The Willow Tree. Two versions. Thackeray[213]
There were Three Sailors of Bristol City[214]
“There were three dwellers in Gotham City.” Punch. 1884[214]
There were some Commissioners. 1887[214]
Werther had a love for Charlotte[215]
Peg of Limavaddy. 1843[215]
A Beautified Being[216]
Whiskey, drink divine. 1840[216]
Henry (Irving) and Ellen (Terry). 1884[217]
The Battle of Limerick[217]
The Hampton Court Bicycle Meet. 1880[218]
The Battle of O’Brine. The Globe. 1887[218]
Love at Two Score[219]
Love at Sixteen[219]
The Snob’s version of the Cane-bottom’d Chair[220]
There was a King of Yvetot[220]
It was the “crack” news-maker. 1886[220]
“Inaugurative Ode” in The Cornhill Mag.[220]
When moonlike ore the hazure seas[220]
The Arcana of Cabinet-making[221]
The Ballad of a Rural Pleceman[221]
Old Fashioned Fun[222]
Edmund Waller.
Go lovely Rose![210]
Go, wedding cake! Diogenes. 1853[210]
Go, flaunting Rose! Punch. 1881[210]
Go, my Primrose! Punch. 1886[210]
Wanted--a Governess[211]
Wanted, an Alderman[211]
Wanted, an Editor[211]
William Wordsworth.
We are Seven[88]
The seven new Peers. 1831[88]
The Trustee[89]
Only seven. Henry S. Leigh. 1865[89]
They are three. Shotover Papers. 1874[90]
I’ve got seven. E. Compton. 1878[90]
Lay by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 1877[91]
The Ballad of the ’Bus. 1885[92]
They are seven. Fun. 1885[92]
We are seven. The Judge. 1885[92]
More than seven[93]
We are one[93]
We are seven (Irish M.P.’s). 1877[93]
They are five. 1877[94]
We are seven (Unionists), 1886[94]
Lucy. 1779[94]
On Wordsworth. Hartley Coleridge[94]
Jacob. Phoebe Carey. 1854[95]
Emancipation. F. B. Doveton.[95]
The Baby’s Debût. Rejected Addresses. 1812[95]
The Pet Lamb[96]
Rink, pretty creature, Rink. A. W. Mackenzie[96]
My Heart leaps up[96]
A Parody. William Maginn. 1820[97]
“I met an old man on the road.” 1811[97]
She was a Phantom of delight.[97]
“It was a phantom of delight.” 1886[97]
He was a great Panjandrum, quite. 1886[98]
Dusty Bob. Comic Magazine. 1834[98]
To the Cuckoo[98]
“O Blythe newspaper! From thy page.” By F. B. Doveton[98]
The Reverie of poor Susan[99]
The Reverie of a poor Squeezed ’un. 1885[99]
Violets, do what they will[99]
Fair women win the hearts of men. 1813[99]
What women make of men[99]
The Yarra-Yarra unvisited. 1872[100]
A Sonnet on the Sonnet[100]
French translation by M. de St. Beuve[100]
Scorn not the Meerschaum[101]
Oh! Bull, strong labourer. 1846[101]
Billy Routing. William Maginn[101]
The Kail Pot. Blackwood’s Magazine. 1821[101]
Billy Blinn. William Maginn[101]
There is a River clear and fair. C. M. Fanshawe[101]
Ralph Rattat. 1885[102]
The Poets at tea[103]
Containing imitations of
Lord Macaulay
Lord Tennyson
A. C. Swinburne
William Cowper
Robert Browning
William Wordsworth
E. A. Poe
D. G. Rossetti
Robert Burns
Walt Whitman
Ode on the Installation of Prince Albert. 1847[106]
Peter Bell[104]
A parody by Reynolds. 1819[104]
A Parody by Shelley[104]
The Dead Asses. 1819[104]
Benjamin the Waggoner. 1819[105]
Lord Byron on “Peter Bell.” 1820[105]
“There’s something in a flying horse.”
“There’s something in a stupid ass.”
A mood of my own mind. T. L. Peacock.[105]
Old Cumberland Pedlar. 1824[105]
The Stranger. James Hogg. 1816[105]
The Flying Tailor. 1816[105]
James Rigg. 1816[105]
Doctor Pill and Gaffer Quake[105]
Tim the Tacket. 1881[106]
William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate. 1843[106]

POETS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
All or Nothing. By Bayard Taylor[245]
Brahma. 1857[246]
Damn, ah![246]
Mutton[246]
Colonel John Hay.
Jim Bludso[246]
The Bloomin’ Flower of Rorty Gulch. Charles H. Ross[247]
Joseph Swife and Potiphar. Funny Folks. 1876[272]
The Mystery of Gilgal[247]
Big Bill. Bayard Taylor[248]
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Contentment[253]
Contentment, a Parody. St. James’ Gazette[253]
The Deacon’s Masterpiece[254]
Sequel to the “One Hoss Shay.” C. F. Adams[255]
Ode for a Social Meeting[255]
The Poet at the Breakfast Table. Funny Folks[255]
The Psycho-Physical Muse. Bayard Taylor[256]
The Wheelless. J. G. Dalton. 1880[256]
James Russell Lowell.
The Pious Editor’s Creed[248]
The Pious Chancellor’s Creed. Punch. 1878[249]
The Jingo’s Creed. Funny Folks. 1879[249]
The Unionist Editor’s Creed. Pall Mall. 1887[250]
Joe Chamberlain to Himself[250]
When Doctors Disagree[250]
On Recruiting[250]
Renegaders. William Guise. 1888[251]
The Official Explanation. Chicago News.[251]
Tennyson’s latest. 1882[251]
The Saga of Ahab Doolittle. Bayard Taylor[252]
Jonathan to John[276]
Joaquin Miller.
The Fate of the Frontiersman. Bayard Taylor[270]
Edgar Allan Poe.
E. A. Poe at tea[103]
Deborah Lee. American Paper[282]
Camomile Tea. Punch’s Almanac. 1883[283]
W. E. G. Judy. 1885.[283]
Albert McGee. University News Sheet.[284]
The Swells. Dramatic College Annual. 1868[284]
The Polls. St. James’s Gazette. 1885[285]
The Bills. Funny Folks. 1886[285]
The Sleigh Bells. Topical Times. 1886[285]
Autumn Bells. Fun. 1886[285]
The Bells. C. H. Waring. 1886[286]
The Christmas Party. American Paper[286]
The Bills. The Umpire. 1888[286]
Christmas Bills. Pippins and Cheese. 1868[286]
The Yells. John C. Morgan[286]
An Appeal (Parody of “The Raven.”) Relating to Ruddigore. Pall Mall Gazette[286]
An Artist’s Ravin’. Funny Folks[287]
The Weekly Dispatch parody competition, October 31, 1886. Poem by J. C. Rose[288]
Poem by F. B. Doveton[288]
“Joe” a Chamberlainian Dream. Pall Mall Gazette. 1887[288]
The Yankee Cryptogram. Topical Times. 1887[289]
A Vision. Prison Poems by T. D. Sullivan, M.P.[290]
Tullamore, The Weekly Dispatch. 1888[291]
A list of Parodies of “The Raven.”[291]
The Dutchman and the Raven[322]
The Whitechapel Murders. Marcus[323]
Christmas Boxes. Moonshine. 1887[291]
The Ladies, after Dinner[292]
To William (Gladstone). Saturday Review[292]
Leonainie. The Daily News. 1886[292]
The Lost Soul. Strange Visitors. 1869[292]
Walt Whitman.
Song of Myself; Miracles; On Thanksgiving Day[256]
To Walt Whitman in America. A. C. Swinburne[257]
A Parody from Once a Week. 1868[257]
Walt Whitman on Oxford. Shotover Papers.[257]
Home--sweet Home. H. C. Bunner[258]
This is a Poem. The Cambridge Meteor. 1882[258]
Camerados. Bayard Taylor[258]
A Parody from San Francisco[258]
A Parody from “The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys”[259]
A Parody from Judy. 1884[259]
Whitman in London. Punch. 1887[260]
A Pension for Walt Whitman[260]
St. Smith of Utah. Walter Parke[260]
Poem of the Ride. J. G. Dalton. 1880[262]
Pods of Pease. Rejected Tercentenary Songs[262]
A Mad Parson. Julian Sturgis. 1884[262]
Walt Whitman at tea[103]
John Greenleaf Whittier.
Maud Müller[239]
Mrs. Judge Jenkins, a sequel. Bret. Harte[240]
Kate Ketchem. Phœbe Carey[240]
Maud Müller in Dutch[241]
The Maud Müller (Improved)[242]
Maud Müller in Urbe[242]
The Modern Maud Müller. Cincinnati Paper[242]
Maud Müller and the Judge[243]
Maud Müller on the Ice. Brooklyn Eagle[243]
Miss Müller. Funny Folks. 1884[243]
Barbara Fritchie[244]
Barbara Fritchie in Dutch[244]
Hiram Hover. The Echo Club Papers[245]

MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN POEMS.
Beautiful Snow. James M. Watson[268]
A History of the Poem by James Hogg[268]
Another version by Major Sigourney[269]
London Snow. The Globe. 1886[269]
That Beautiful Kiss[269]
A Critique on Adelina Patti[209]
“The Beautiful Snow,” extra verse. W. F. Fox[323]
The Gallant Three Hundred. (On the disputed authorship of the poem)[323]
Der Good-lookin Shnow[323]
By the Sad Sea Waves. Walter Parke. 1874[271]
His Mother-in-Law. San Francisco News Letter[272]
Falling leaf and fading tree[265]
Easy chair and soft young man[265]
Hans Breitmann’s Barty. C. G. Leland[270]
The Fate of the Four[270]
Her washing ended with the day. Phœbe Carey[273]
Leedle Yawcob Strauss. Charles F. Adams[267]
Leedle Eduard Strauss. Punch. 1885[267]
On the Pier. W. Wilkins in Kottabos[272]
Sheridan’s Ride. Thomas B. Read[262]
Schlosser’s Ride[263]
Schneider’s Ride[263]
A Sylvan Scene. Bayard Taylor[263]
Strange Visitors. Published in New York. 1869[273]
Trust not Man, for he’ll deceive you![263]
Trust not woman, she’ll beguile you?[264]
Temptation and Explanation. E. W. Wilcox[264]
A Newspaper Parody[264]
The Night before Christmas. C. C. Moore[265]
The Night after Christmas[265]
The Picket Guard. Thad. Oliver[266]
Along the St. Lawrence. New York World[266]
The Lessons of the Birds. G. W. Doane[267]
What is that, Mother? E. Lawson Finerty[267]
You kissed me. Josephine Hunt. 1857[264]
You kicked me. 1881[264]
Woodman, spare that tree. G. P. Morris[271]
The Woodman’s reply. Godfrey Turner[271]
NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC SONGS
OF THE UNITED STATES OFAMERICA.
A List of the Principal Songs [274]
Yankee Doodle. 1755 [274]
The origin of Yankee Doodle. G. P. Morris [275]
“The Mighty Brougham’s come to Town.” Liverpool Election. 1812 [275]
An Appendix to “Yankee Doodle.” 1851 [275]
“Punch” on the Civil War. 1861 [276]
Jonathan to John. James R. Lowell [276]
“Yankee Doodle” from the Southern point of view [277]
A Yankee Soldier’s Song [278]
Cock-a-Doodle. Truth. 1882 [278]
Randy Churchill. American Paper. 1887 [278]
John Brown’s Body[278]
A Radical Song. D. Evans[278]
Three Hundred Thousand more.John S. Gibbons. July 16, 1862[279]
To Abraham Lincoln. Shirley Brooks [279]
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! the Boys are marching![279]
A political parody. Truth. 1886 [279]
My Maryland. James R. Randall. 1861[280]
The Karamanian Exile. J. C. Mangan[280]
A Northern States parody of “Maryland” [281]
A Liberal Lyric. England. 1884 [281]
Yankee-Land. J. G. Dalton. 1885[281]
Canada, my Canada. The Brooklyn Eagle[323]
Hail, Columbia. Oliver Wendell Holmes[282]

CONTENTS

VOLUMES I., II., III., and IV. PARODIES.