The Book of Humorous Verse

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Authors Unknown
All's Well That Ends Well	[264]
Amazing Facts About Food	[91]
Ambiguous Lines	[804]
Any One Will Do	[169]
As To The Weather	[107]
Ballad of Bedlam, A	[886]
Ballad of High Endeavor, A	[484]
Bellagcholly Days	[747]
Bells, The	[816]
Cameronian Cat, The	[917]
Careful Penman, The	[810]
Catalectic Monody, A	[833]
Categorical Courtship	[207]
Chemist to His Love, A	[206]
Christmas Chimes	[284]
Clown's Courtship, The	[217]
Conjugal Conundrum, A	[371]
Cosmic Egg, The	[771]
Cosmopolitan Woman, A	[167]
Counsel to Those That Eat	[932]
Country Summer Pastoral, A	[883]
Cupid's Darts	[67]
Darwinian Ballad	[913]
Dirge	[787]
Father William	[531]
Fin de Siècle	[357]
Fragment, A	[450]
Future of the Classics, The	[826]
Gillian	[511]
Homœopathic Soup	[76]
Hyder Iddle	[879]
Idyll of Phatte and Leene, An	[406]
If	[951]
Imagiste Love Lines	[383]
Imaginative Crisis, The	[451]
Imitations of Walt Whitman	[434]
Indifference	[950]
Invitation to the Zoological Gardens, An	[822]
Israfiddlestrings	[472]
Justice to Scotland	[384]
Kilkenny Cats, The	[950]
Kindly Advice	[890]
King John and the Abbot	[554]
King Arthur	[879]
Learned Negro, The	[274]
Life	[783]
Lines	[456]
Lines by an Old Fogy	[882]
Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon	[830]
Lines Written After a Battle	[456]
Little Star, The	[476]
Logic	[809]
Logical English	[809]
Lost Spectacles, The	[287]
Love's Moods and Tenses	[812]
Man of Words, A	[790]
Man's Place in Nature	[89]
Maudle-in-Ballad, A	[510]
Midsummer Madness	[377]
Minguillo's Kiss	[122]
Mme. Sans Souci	[951]
Modern Hiawatha, The	[482]
Mr. Finney's Turnip	[847]
My Dream	[853]
My Foe	[529]
Naughty Darkey Boy, The	[927]
Nirvana	[900]
North, East, South and West	[403]
Nursery Rhymes à la Mode	[509]
Nursery Song in Pidgin English	[530]
Ocean Wanderer, The	[879]
Ode to a Bobtailed Cat	[736]
Odv	[788]
On a Deaf Housekeeper	[76]
Origin of Ireland, The	[106]
Original Lamb, The	[477]
Panegyric on the Ladies	[803]
Questions with Answers	[810]
Rev. Gabe Tucker's Remarks	[312]
Riddle, A	[951]
Rural Raptures	[450]
Sainte Margérie	[477]
Siege of Belgrade, The	[813]
Similes	[791]
Song of the Springtide	[527]
Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House	[851]
Stanzas to Pale Ale	[732]
Strike Among the Poets, A	[785]
Susan Simpson	[774]
There was a Little Girl	[926]
Thingumbob, The	[882]
Three Children	[843]
Three Jovial Huntsmen	[878]
'Tis Midnight	[843]
'Tis Sweet to Roam	[878]
To an Importunate Host	[534]
To Be or Not To Be	[891]
Transcendentalism	[92]
Trust in Women	[276]
Two Fishers	[188]
Ultimate Joy, The	[32]
Unfortunate Miss-Bailey	[702]
Village Choir, The	[528]
Whango Tree, The	[842]
What is a Woman Like?	[118]
Whenceness of the Which	[476]
Whistler, The	[133]
Wonders of Nature	[882]
Wordsworthian Reminiscence	[470]
Young Lady of Niger, The	[948]
Young Lochinvar	[381]
Adams, Charles Follen
Leedle Yawcob Strauss	[940]
Adams, Franklin P.
Erring in Company	[55]
Popular Ballad: "Never Forget Your Parents"	[394]
To a Thesaurus	[825]
Translated Way	[427]
Addison, Joseph
Song	[751]
To a Capricious Friend	[368]
Aldrich, Dr. Henry
Reasons for Drinking	[364]
Anstey, F.
Select Passages from a Coming Poet	[410]
Aristophanes
Chorus of Women	[126]
Ashby-Sterry, J.
Kindness to Animals	[891]
Pet's Punishment	[184]
Atwell, Roy
Some Little Bug	[77]
Aytoun, William E.
Bitter Bit, The	[451]
Broken Pitcher, The	[196]
Comfort in Affliction	[453]
Husband's Petition, The	[454]
Lay of the Lover's Friend, The	[88]
Aytoun, William E., and Martin
Lay of the Love Lorn, The	[537]
Bailey, Philip James
Great Black Crow, The	[908]
Ballard, Harlan Hoge
In the Catacombs	[52]
Bangs, John Kendrick
"Mona Lisa"	[95]
Barham, Richard Harris [Thomas Ingoldsby]
Confession, The	[443]
Forlorn One, The	[449]
Jackdaw of Rheims, The	[586]
Knight and the Lady, The	[590]
Misadventures at Margate	[558]
More Walks	[950]
Bayly, Thomas Haynes
Why Don't the Men Propose?	[130]
Bede, Cuthbert
In Memoriam	[463]
Beers, Henry A.
Fish Story, A	[916]
Bellaw, A. W.
Conjugal Conjugations	[810]
Old Line Fence, The	[760]
Belloc, Hilaire
Frog, The	[907]
Llama, The	[906]
Microbe, The	[907]
Viper, The	[906]
Yak, The	[906]
Bennett, John
To Marie	[852]
Birdseye, George
Paradise	[281]
Blake, Rodney
Hoch! der Kaiser	[291]
Blake, William
Cupid	[56]
Little Vagabond, The	[269]
Blanchard, Laman
Art of Book-Keeping, The	[818]
False Love and True Logic	[183]
Ode to a Human Heart	[784]
Whatever is, is Right	[786]
Bridges, Madeline
Third Proposition, The	[345]
Bridgman, L. J.
On Knowing When to Stop	[312]
Browne, Charles Farrar [Artemus Ward]
Uncle Simon and Uncle Jim	[849]
Brownell, Henry Howard
Lawyer's Invocation to Spring, The	[402]
Browning, Robert
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The	[603]
Pope and the Net, The	[286]
Youth and Art	[339]
Bunner, H. C.
Behold the Deeds	[397]
Home Sweet Home with Variations	[498]
Shake, Mulleary and Go-Ethe	[40]
Way to Arcady, The	[201]
Burdette, Robert J.
Orphan Born	[903]
Romance of the Carpet, The	[674]
"Soldier, Rest!"	[374]
"Songs without Words"	[413]
What Will We Do?	[311]
Burgess, Gelett
Dighton is Engaged	[647]
Extracts from the Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne	[512]
Invisible Bridge, The	[855]
Kitty Wants to Write	[646]
Lazy Roof, The	[855]
My Feet	[855]
Purple Cow, The	[948]
Villanelle of Things Amusing	[73]
Burnand, F. C.
Fisherman's Chant, The	[81]
Oh, My Geraldine	[180]
True to Poll	[275]
Burns, Robert
Address to the Toothache	[724]
Holy Willie's Prayer	[272]
John Barleycorn	[730]
Tam O'Shanter	[623]
Bushnell, Dr. Samuel G.
On the Aristocracy of Harvard	[949]
Butler, Ellis Parker
Secret Combination, The	[209]
Butler, Samuel
Hypocrisy	[365]
Religion of Hudibras, The	[271]
Smatterers	[365]
Butler, William Allen
Nothing to Wear	[148]
Byron, John
Three Black Crows	[254]
Which is Which	[368]
Byron, Lord
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos	[80]
Calverley, Charles Stuart
Ballad	[467]
Cock and the Bull, The	[464]
Companions	[63]
Disaster	[469]
First Love	[116]
Lovers and a Reflection	[372]
Ode to Tobacco	[732]
Schoolmaster, The	[64]
Cannan, Edward
Unexpected Fact, An	[844]
Canning, George
Elderly Gentlemen, The	[665]
Knife-grinder, The	[249]
Song	[84]
Carey, Henry
Sally in Our Alley	[182]
Carleton, Will
New Church Organ, The	[162]
Carroll, Lewis
Father William	[485]
Humpty Dumpty's Recitation	[872]
Hunting of the Snark, The	[676]
Jabberwocky	[869]
Some Hallucinations	[874]
Walrus and the Carpenter, The	[896]
Ways and Means	[870]
Carryl, Charles E.
Post Captain, The	[615]
Robinson Crusoe's Story	[617]
Carryl, Guy Wetmore
Ballad, A	[426]
Girl was too Reckless of Grammar, A	[395]
Cary, Phoebe
Ballad of the Canal	[492]
"The Day is Done"	[490]
Jacob	[491]
John Thomson's Daughter	[494]
There's a Bower of Bean-vines	[493]
Reuben	[493]
When Lovely Woman	[494]
Wife, The	[494]
Cayley, George John
Epitaph, An	[366]
Chambers, Robert W.
Officer Brady	[232]
Recruit, The	[230]
Chaucer, Geoffrey
To My Empty Purse	[58]
Cheney, John Vance
Kitchen Clock, The	[220]
Chesterfield, Lord
On a Full-length Portrait of Beau Marsh	[369]
Chesterton, G. K.
Ballade of an Anti-Puritan, A	[337]
Ballade of Suicide, A	[224]
Cholmondeley-Pennell, H.
How the Daughters Come Down At Dunoon	[533]
Lay of the Deserted Influenzaed	[746]
Our Traveller	[445]
Clarke, H. E.
Lady Mine	[221]
Clarke, Lewis Gaylord
Flamingo, The	[894]
Claudius, Matthew
Hen, The	[892]
Cleveland
On Scotland	[369]
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Latest Decalogue, The	[261]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Cologne	[363]
Eternal Poem, An	[364]
Giles's Hope	[363]
House that Jack Built, The	[407]
Job	[364]
On a Bad Singer	[364]
Rhymester, A	[363]
Collins, Mortimer
Ad Chloen, M.A.	[184]
Chloe, M.A.	[185]
If	[436]
Martial in London	[316]
My Aunt's Spectre	[600]
Positivists, The	[315]
Salad	[436]
Sky-Making	[314]
Cone, Helen Gray
Ballad of Cassandra Brown, The	[345]
Congreve, William
Buxom Joan	[179]
Cook, Rev. Joseph
Boston Nursery Rhymes	[324]
Corbet, Bishop
Like to the Thundering Tone	[848]
Cotton, Charles
Joys of Marriage, The	[344]
Cowley, Abraham
Chronicle: A Ballad, The	[176]
Cowper, William
Colubriad, The	[909]
Diverting History of John Gilpin, The	[564]
Pairing-Time Anticipated	[212]
Report of an Adjudged Case	[82]
Retired Cat, The	[910]
Crane, Stephen
Man, The	[248]
Croffut, William Augustus
Dirge, A	[737]
Cunningham, Allan
John Grumlie	[326]
Daniell, Edith
Inspect Us	[471]
Davison, Francis
Are Women Fair?	[189]
Day, Holman F.
Grampy Sings a Song	[670]
Deane, Anthony C.
Here is the Tale	[421]
Imitation	[375]
Rural Bliss	[97]
DeBurgh, H. J.
Half Hours with the Classics	[779]
Denison, J. P.
Wing Tee Wee	[139]
Dibdin, Charles
Nongtongpaw	[808]
Dillon, Viscount
Donnybrook Jig, The	[700]
Dobson, Austin
Dialogue From Plato, A	[142]
Dora Versus Rose	[144]
Jocosa Lyra	[824]
Rondeau, The	[782]
Tu Quoque	[146]
Dodge, H. C.
If	[268]
Splendid Fellow, A	[267]
Dodge, Mary Mapes
Home and Mother	[932]
Life in Laconics	[311]
Over the Way	[125]
Zealless Xylographer, The	[759]
Dole, Nathan Haskell
Our Native Birds	[53]
Donne, John
Song	[330]
Drummond, William Henry
Wreck of the "Julie Plante"	[662]
Dreyden, John
Epitaph Intended for His Wife	[368]
Edwards, John R.
War: A-Z, The	[829]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Fable	[290]
Fanshawe, Catherine M.
Enigma on the Letter H	[762]
Imitation of Wordsworth, An	[535]
Farrow, G. E.
Converted Cannibals, The	[683]
Retired Pork-Butcher and the Spook, The	[685]
Field, Eugene
Dinkey Bird, The	[929]
Dutch Lullaby	[928]
Little Peach, The	[931]
Truth About Horace, The	[50]
Fields, James Thomas
Alarmed Skipper, The	[664]
Owl-Critic, The	[309]
Turtle and the Flamingo, The	[923]
Fink, William W.
Larrie O'Dee	[165]
Flagg, James Montgomery [with Julian Street]
Said Opie Reed	[948]
Foley, J. W.
Nemesis	[94]
Scientific Proof	[880]
Forrester, Alfred A. [Alfred Croquill]
To My Nose	[832]
Foss, Sam Walter
Husband and Heather	[160]
Ideal Husband to His Wife, The	[246]
Meeting of the Clabberhuses, The	[244]
A Philosopher	[242]
Prayer of Cyrus Brown, The	[54]
Then Ag'in	[357]
Gallienne, Richard Le
Melton Mowbray Pork-Pie, A	[472]
Gay, John
New Song, A	[754]
Gilbert, Paul T.
Triolet	[120]
Gilbert, W. S.
Etiquette	[256]
Ferdinando and Elvira	[635]
Gentle Alice Brown	[639]
Mighty Must, The	[376]
Played-Out Humorist, The	[25]
Practical Joker, The	[26]
Sing for the Garish Eye	[875]
Sir Guy the Crusader	[644]
Story of Prince Agib, The	[641]
To Phoebe	[28]
To the Terrestrial Globe	[256]
Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"	[632]
Gillinan, S. W.
Finnigin to Flannigan	[225]
Godley, A. D.
After Horace	[320]
Pensées de Noël	[336]
Goldsmith, Oliver
Elegy, An	[740]
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An	[764]
Parson Gray	[741]
Googe, Barnaby
Out of Sight, Out of Mind	[807]
Graves, Alfred Perceval
Father O'Flynn	[719]
Ould Doctor Macke	[717]
Gray, Thomas
On the Death of a Favorite Cat	[557]
Greene, Albert Gorton
Old Grimes	[766]
Grissom, Arthur
Ballade of Forgotten Loves	[223]
Guiterman, Arthur
Elegy	[445]
Legend of the First Cam-u-el, The	[888]
Mavrone	[378]
Mexican Serenade	[902]
Sketch from the Life, A	[121]
Strictly Germ Proof	[87]
Halpine, Charles Graham
Feminine Arithmetic	[191]
Harrington, Sir John
Of a Certain Man	[282]
Of a Precise Tailor	[322]
Harte, Bret
Ballad of the Emeu, The	[921]
"Jim"	[652]
Plain Language from Truthful James	[648]
Society Upon the Stanislaus, The	[650]
To the Pliocene Skull	[46]
Willows, The	[423]
Hartswick, F. G.
Somewhere-in-Europe-Wodky	[482]
Hastings, Lady T.
"Exactly So"	[61]
Hay, John
Distichs	[247]
Enchanted Shirt, The	[658]
Good and Bad Luck	[334]
Jim Bludso	[661]
Little Breeches	[657]
Hazzard, John Edward
Ain't It Awful, Mabel?	[137]
Heber, Reginald
Sympathy	[270]
Henley, William Ernest
Culture in the Slums	[400]
Her Little Feet	[59]
Triolet, The	[782]
Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves	[399]
Herford, Oliver
Catfish, The	[900]
Cloud, The	[134]
Laughing Willow, The	[948]
Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream	[30]
Phyllis Lee	[139]
War Relief	[901]
Herrick, Robert
Five Wives	[772]
No Fault in Women	[166]
Ternary of Littles Upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady, A	[806]
Hill, Marion
Lovelilts	[824]
Hogg, James
Love is Like a Dizziness	[218]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Æstivation	[849]
Ballad of the Oysterman, The	[583]
Cacoethes Scribendi	[238]
Contentment	[238]
The Deacon's Masterpiece	[580]
Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents, A	[36]
Height of the Ridiculous, The	[38]
Ode for a Social Meeting	[833]
Our Hymn	[374]
To the Portrait of "A Gentleman"	[236]
Hood, Thomas
Bachelor's Dream, The	[342]
Ben Bluff	[619]
Death's Ramble	[801]
Faithless Nellie Gray	[797]
Faithless Sally Brown	[792]
No!	[792]
Nocturnal Sketch, A	[823]
Parental Ode to my Son Aged Three Years and Five Months, A	[941]
Sally Simpkin's Lament	[800]
Tim Turpin	[795]
To Minerva	[49]
Hood, Thomas, Jr.
In Memoriam Technicam	[413]
Takings	[817]
Wedding, The	[412]
Hook, Theodore
Cautionary Verses	[828]
Hovey, Richard
Barney McGee	[721]
Hunt, Leigh
Jovial Priest's Confession, The	[834]
Nun, The	[206]
Huntley, Stanley
Annabel Lee	[497]
Ingoldsby, Thomas [See Richard Harris Barham]
Irwin, Wallace
Blow Me Eyes!	[115]
Constant Cannibal Maiden, The	[194]
Grain of Salt, A	[241]
Jenks, Tudor
Old Bachelor, An	[98]
Johnson, Burges
Why Doth a Pussy Cat?	[895]
Johnson, Hilda
Quest of the Purple Cow, The	[100]
Johnson, Rossiter
Ninety-nine in the Shade	[781]
Johnson, Samuel
If the Man	[949]
Johnston, William
On the Downtown Side of an Uptown Street	[79]
Johnstone, Henry
Fastidious Serpent, The	[887]
Jones, Dean
On the Democracy of Yale	[949]
Jonson, Ben
Answer to Master Wither's Song, "Shall I, Wasting in Despair?"	[526]
Cupid	[211]
To Doctor Empiric	[365]
Keats, John
Portrait, A	[496]
Kerr, Orpheus [See Robert H. Newell]
King, Ben
How Often	[489]
If I Should Die To-night	[489]
Pessimist, The	[358]
Kingsley, Charles
Oubit, The	[330]
Kipling, Rudyard
Commonplaces	[427]
Divided Destinies	[904]
Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink	[226]
Knight, Henry Coggswell
Lunar Stanzas	[841]
Lamb, Charles
Farewell to Tobacco, A	[726]
Nonsense Verses	[848]
Lampton, W. J.
New Persion, The	[90]
Landor, Walter Savage
Honey-moon, The	[366]
Gifts Returned	[198]
Lang, Andrew
Ballad of the Primitive Jest	[72]
Double Ballad of Primitive Man	[331]
Langbridge, Frederick
Quite By Chance	[205]
Lanigan, George Thomas
Ahkoond of Swat, The	[710]
Dirge of the Moolla of Kotal	[712]
Lear, Edward
Ahkoond of Swat, The	[708]
Jumbles, The	[862]
New Vestments, The	[866]
Owl and the Pussy Cat, The	[901]
Pobble Who Has No Toes, The	[865]
Two Old Bachelors, The	[868]
Yongby-Bonghy-Bo, The	[859]
Leigh, Henry S.
Cossimbazar	[843]
Maud	[188]
My Love and My Heart	[204]
Nursery Legend, A	[937]
Only Seven	[543]
Romanunt of Humpty Dumpty, The	[411]
'Twas Ever Thus	[544]
Twins, The	[108]
Leland, Charles Godfrey
Ballad of Charity, A	[613]
Ballad of Hans Breitmann	[669]
Hans Breitmann's Party	[668]
Legend of Heinz Von Stein, The	[49]
Lemke, E.
Rhyme of Musicians, A	[772]
Lemon, Mark
How to Make a Man of Consequence	[280]
Lessing
Mendax	[369]
To a Slow Walker and Quick Eater	[369]
Lever, Charles
Pope, The	[70]
Widow Malone, The	[126]
Lindesay, Sir David
Carman's Account of a Law Suit, A	[807]
Locker-Lampson, Frederick
Circumstance	[444]
Mrs. Smith	[155]
My Mistress's Boots	[153]
On a Sense of Humor	[367]
Some Ladies	[367]
Susan	[157]
Terrible Infant, A	[156]
Loines, Russell Hilliard
On a Magazine Sonnet	[281]
Loomis, Charles Battell
O-u-g-h	[761]
Propinquity Needed	[51]
Song of Sorrow, A	[386]
Loring, Fred W.
Fair Millinger, The	[186]
Lovelace, Richard
Song	[241]
Lover, Samuel
Birth of Saint Patrick, The	[58]
Father Malloy	[307]
How to Ask and Have	[181]
Lanty Leary	[208]
Paddy O'Rafther	[571]
Quaker's Meeting, The	[576]
Rory O'More; or, Good Omens	[141]
Lowell, James Russell
Candidate's Creed, The	[294]
Courtin', The	[110]
What Mr. Robinson Thinks	[292]
Without and Within	[359]
Ludlow, Fitz Hugh
Too Late	[348]
Lummis, C. F.
Poe-'em of Passion, A	[532]
Lysaght, Edward
Kitty of Coleraine	[130]
Mackay, Charles
Bachelor's Mono-Rhyme, A	[817]
Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical Public	[339]
Mackintosh, Newton
Lucy Lake	[463]
Optimism	[445]
Pessimism	[338]
Macy, Arthur
Rollicking Mastodon, The	[853]
Maginn, William
Irishman and the Lady, The	[742]
St. Patrick, of Ireland, My Dear!	[101]
Marquis, Don
For I Am Sad	[379]
Lilies	[379]
Marriott, John
Devonshire Lane, The	[266]
Masson, Tom
Kiss, The	[109]
Maxwell, J. C.
Rigid Body Sings	[483]
Mayhew, Horace
Travesty of Miss Fanshawe's Enigma	[763]
Ménage, Gilles
Happy Man, The	[814]
Merivale, Herman C.
Darwinity	[409]
Town of Nice, The	[438]
Miller, Alice Duer
If They Meant All They Said	[247]
Miller, Joaquin
That Gentle Man From Boston Town	[629]
That Texan Cattle Man	[288]
William Brown of Oregon	[653]
Milne, A. A.
From a Full Heart	[31]
Milton, John
On the Oxford Carrier	[780]
Mix, Parmenas
Accepted and Will Appear	[268]
He Came to Pay	[447]
Moore, Augustus M.
Ballade of Ballade-Mongers, A	[441]
Moore, Clement Clarke
Visit from St. Nicholas, A	[935]
Moore, Thomas
If you Have Seen	[444]
Lying	[86]
Of All the Men	[370]
On Taking a Wife	[367]
Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party	[367]
What's My Thought Like?	[370]
Morgan, Bessie
'Späcially Jim	[129]
Morris, Captain C.
Contrast, The	[265]
Morris, George Pope
Retort, The	[174]
Motteux, Peter A.
Rondelay, A	[41]
Moxon, Frederick
All at Sea	[70]
Munkittrick, R. K.
Unsatisfied Yearning	[889]
What's in a Name?	[347]
Winter Dusk	[42]
Nack, James
Here She Goes and There She Goes	[572]
Nairne, Lady
The Laird o' Cockpen	[703]
Newell, Robert H. [Orpheus C. Kerr]
American Traveller, The	[757]
Editor's Wooing, The	[389]
Great Fight, A	[697]
Rejected "National Hymns," The	[387]
O'Keefe, John
Friar of Orders Gray, The	[282]
O'Leary, Cormac
Reflections on Cleopathera's Needle	[105]
O'Reilly, John Boyle
Constancy	[137]
Osborn, Selleck
Modest Wit, A	[260]
Outram, George
Annuity, The	[350]
On Hearing a Lady Praise a Certain Rev. Doctor's Eyes	[368]
Pain, Barry
Bangkolidye	[334]
Martin Luther at Potsdam	[404]
Oh! Weary Mother	[000]
Poets at Tea, The	[486]
Paine, Albert Bigelow
Mis' Smith	[119]
Sary "Fixes Up" Things	[192]
Palmer, E. H.
Parterre, The	[180]
Shipwreck, The	[876]
Palmer, William Pitt
Smack in School, The	[128]
Parke, Walter
Foam and Fangs	[544]
His Mother-in-Law	[75]
My Madeline	[773]
Vague Story, A	[74]
Young Gazelle	[918]
Paull, H. M.
Eastern Question, An	[598]
Peck, Samuel Minturn
Bessie Brown, M.D.	[120]
Kiss in the Rain, A	[123]
Pelham, M.
Comical Girl, The	[946]
Perry, Nora
Love Knot, The	[124]
Philips, Barclay
Polka Lyric, A	[832]
Philips, John
Splendid Shilling, The	[316]
Piggot, Mostyn T.
Hundred Best Books, The	[769]
Planché, J. R.
Song	[99]
Pontalais, Jehan Du
Money	[323]
Pope, Alexander
Fool and the Poet, The	[363]
Ruling Passion, The	[285]
To a Blockhead	[362]
Porson, Richard
Dido	[366]
Nothing	[786]
Porter, H. H.
Forty Years After	[210]
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth
Belle of the Ball, The	[171]
Song of Impossibilities, A	[327]
Pratt, Florence E.
Courting in Kentucky	[168]
Prior, Matthew
Epitaph, An	[765]
Phillis's Age	[332]
Remedy Worse Than the Disease, A	[365]
Simile, A	[262]
Proudfit, David Law
Prehistoric Smith	[83]
Prout, Father
Malbrouck	[28]
Sabine Farmer's Serenade, The	[214]
Ramal, Walter
Bunches of Grapes	[947]
Rands, W. B.
Clean Clara	[283]
Riley, James Whitcomb
Little Orphant Annie	[934]
Lugubrious Whing-Whang, The	[858]
Man in the Moon, The	[856]
Old Man and Jim, The	[678]
Prior to Miss Belle's Appearance	[925]
Spirk Throll-Derisive	[855]
When the Frost Is on the Punkin	[34]
Robertson, Harrison
Kentucky Philosophy	[325]
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Miniver Cheevy	[229]
Two Men	[35]
Roche, James Jeffrey
Boston Lullaby, A	[240]
Lament of the Scotch Irish Exile	[385]
Sailor's Yarn, A	[680]
V-A-S-E, The	[227]
Rodger, Alexander
Behave Yoursel' Before Folk	[174]
Romaine, Harry
Unattainable, The	[141]
Ropes, Arthur Reed
Lost Pleiad, The	[161]
Russell, Irwin
First Banjo, The	[672]
Sancta-Clara, á Abraham
St. Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes	[251]
Saxe, John G.
Comic Miseries	[42]
Early Rising	[44]
Echo	[750]
Rhyme of the Rail	[748]
Sonnet to a Clam	[734]
Woman's Will	[362]
Sawyer, William
"Caudal" Lecture, A	[92]
Cremation	[534]
Turvey Top	[884]
Scollard, Clinton
Ballade of the Golfer in Love	[222]
Noureddin, the Son of the Shah	[199]
Scott, Sir Walter
Herring, The	[949]
Nora's Vow	[159]
Seaman, Owen
At the Sign of the Cock	[414]
Of Baiting the Lion	[893]
Plea for Trigamy, A	[68]
Presto Furioso	[417]
To Julia in Shooting Togs	[418]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Literary Lady, The	[278]
Wife, A	[366]
Shults, George Francis
Under the Mistletoe	[196]
Sibley, Charles
Plaidie, The	[190]
Sidney, James A.
Irish Schoolmaster, The	[103]
Sims, George R.
By Parcels Post	[262]
Smith, Harry B.
"I Didn't Like Him"	[157]
My Angeline	[158]
Same Old Story	[360]
Smith, Horace
Gouty Merchant and the Stranger, The	[563]
Jester Condemned to Death, The	[378]
Smith, James
Baby's Début, The	[390]
Surnames	[804]
Smith, Sydney
Salad	[93]
Southey, Robert
Battle of Blenheim, The	[252]
Cataract of Lodore, The	[743]
Devil's Walk on Earth, The	[298]
March to Moscow, The	[775]
Pig, The	[914]
Well of St. Keyne, The	[584]
Stanton, Frank Libby
How to Eat Watermelons	[73]
Stephen, James Kenneth
Cynicus to W. Shakespeare	[362]
Last Ride Together, The	[431]
Millennium, The	[60]
School	[60]
Senex to Matt. Prior	[362]
Thought, A	[248]
Stevens, H. P.
Why	[214]
Street, Julian [with James Montgomery Flagg]
Said Opie Reed	[948]
Stuart, Alaric Bertrand
Jim-Jam King of the Jou-jous, The	[851]
Stuart, Ruth McEnery
Endless Song, The	[768]
Hen-Roost Man, The	[247]
Suckling, Sir John
Out Upon It	[218]
Wedding, A	[704]
Swift, Dean
Gentle Echo On Woman, A	[752]
Twelve Articles	[279]
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The	[458]
Nephelidia	[459]
Up the Spout	[460]
Taber, Harry Parsons
Jaberwocky of Authors, The	[437]
Taylor, Bayard
Angelo Orders His Dinner	[428]
Camerados	[430]
Cantelope, The	[393]
Hiram Hover	[113]
Palabras Grandiosas	[407]
Promissory Note, The	[429]
Taylor, Bert Leston
Bygones	[383]
Farewell	[419]
Old Stuff	[48]
Post-Impressionism	[235]
Tennyson, Lord
Goose, The	[611]
Northern Farmer	[354]
Thackeray, W. M.
Ballad of Bouillabaisse, The	[714]
Crystal Palace, The	[547]
Little Billee	[546]
Old Fashioned Fun	[33]
Sorrows of Werther, The	[140]
Tragic Story, A	[850]
When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas	[34]
Willow-Tree, The	[439]
Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, The	[552]
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
Casey at the Bat	[601]
Thompson, D'Arcy W.
Poor Dear Grandpapa	[950]
Towne, Charles Hanson
Messed Damozel, The	[471]
Traill, H. D.
After Dilettante Concetti	[474]
Trowbridge, John Townsend
Darius Green and His Flying-Machine	[690]
Turner, Eliza Sproat
Little Goose, A	[938]
Turner, Godfrey
Love Playnt, A	[408]
Tytler, James
I Hae Laid a Herring in Saut	[216]
Untermeyer, Louis
Owen Seaman	[480]
Robert Frost	[479]
Vandyne, Mary E.
The Bald-headed Tyrant	[720]
Villon, François
All Things Except Myself I Know	[343]
Wake, William Basil
Saying Not Meaning	[666]
Ward, Artemus [See Charles Farrar Browne]
Ware, Eugene Fitch
He and She	[109]
Manila	[949]
Siege of Djklxprwbz, The	[96]
Warren, George F.
Lord Guy	[191]
Waterman, Nixon
If We Didn't Have to Eat	[57]
Weatherly, Frederic E.
Bird in the Hand, A	[170]
Thursday	[313]
Usual Way, The	[200]
Webb, Charles Henry
Little Mamma	[943]
Wells, Carolyn
Diversions of the Re-Echo Club	[515]
Limericks	[835]
Styx River Anthology	[521]
West, Paul
Cumberbunce, The	[844]
Wesley, Rev. Samuel
On Butler's Monument	[370]
Witcher, Frances M.
K. K.—Can't Calculate	[353]
Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles	[195]
White, Harriet R.
Uffia	[877]
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Skipper Ireson's Ride	[688]
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Pin, A	[132]
Wildgoose, Oscuro
More Impressions	[509]
Wilkie, A. C.
Old Song By New Singers, An	[506]
Willis, N. P.
Declaration, The	[446]
Willson, Arabella
Appeal for Are to the Sextant of the Old Brick Meetinouse, A	[66]
Wolcot, John
Actor, The	[287]
Pilgrims and the Peas, The	[621]
Razor Seller, The	[297]
To a Fly	[734]
Yates, Edmund
All-Saints	[280]
Ybarra, Thomas R.
Lay of Ancient Rome	[753]
Little Swirl of Vers Libre, A	[380]
Ode to Work in Springtime	[47]
Yriarte, Tomaso de
Musical Ass, The	[249]

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A brace of sinners, for no good	[621]
A brow austere, a circumspective eye	[280]
A captain bold from Halifax who dwelt in country quarters	[702]
A cat I sing, of famous memory	[833]
A country curate visiting his flock	[287]
A district school, not far away	[128]
A fellow in a market town	[297]
A fellow near Kentuck's clime	[494]
A fig for St. Denis of France	[101]
A friend of mine was married to a scold	[264]
A hindoo died—a happy thing to do	[281]
A knight and a lady once met in a grove	[270]
A little peach in the orchard grew	[931]
A little saint best fits a little shrine	[806]
A lively young turtle lived down by the banks	[923]
A lovely young lady I mourn in my rhymes	[366]
A maiden once, of certain age	[169]
A man of words and not of deeds	[790]
A man said to the universe	[248]
A man sat on a rock and sought	[83]
A Persian penman named Aziz	[810]
A Poet's Cat, sedate and grave	[910]
A quiet home had Parson Gray	[741]
A rollicking Mastodon lived in Spain	[853]
A Russian sailed over the blue Black Sea	[374]
A shabby fellow chanced one day to meet	[287]
A soldier and a sailor	[179]
A soldier of the Russians	[90]
A speech, both pithy and concise	[61]
A street there is in Paris famous	[714]
A supercilious nabob of the East	[260]
A tailor, a man of an upright dealing	[322]
A traveller wended the wilds among	[576]
A well there is in the west country	[584]
A whale of great porosity	[916]
A woman is like to—but stay	[118]
A xylographer started to cross the sea	[759]
A young man once was sitting	[394]
Across the sands of Syria	[888]
Ah! Matt, old age has brought to me	[362]
Ah, Night! blind germ of days to be	[484]
Ah! poor intoxicated little knave	[734]
Ah, those hours when by-gone sages	[779]
Ah! who has seen the mailed lobster rise	[882]
Ah! why those piteous sounds of woe	[449]
Alas, unhappy land; ill-fated spot	[712]
All day she hurried to get through	[119]
All smatterers are more brisk and pert	[365]
Alone I sit at eventide	[53]
An ancient story I'll tell you anon	[554]
An Austrian Archduke, assaulted and assailed	[829]
An Austrian army, awfully array'd	[813]
An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this week	[552]
And so our royal relative was dead!	[737]
And this reft house is that the which he built	[407]
"Are women fair?" Ay, wondrous fair to see, too	[189]
As a friend to the children commend me the yak	[906]
As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping	[130]
As I was walkin' the jungle round, a-killin' of tigers an' time	[426]
As long as I dwell on some stupendous	[60]
As wet as a fish—as dry as a bone	[791]
Ask me no more: I've had enough Chablis	[534]
At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper	[635]
At morning's call	[374]
Baby's brain is tired of thinking	[240]
Back in the years when Phlagstaff, the Dane, was monarch	[387]
Barney McGee, there's no end of good luck in you	[721]
Basking in peace in the warm spring sun	[674]
Be brave, faint heart	[445]
Be kind and tender to the Frog	[907]
Be kind to the panther! for when thou wert young	[890]
Beauties, have ye seen this toy	[211]
Before a Turkish town	[96]
Behave yoursel' before folk	[174]
Ben Battle was a soldier bold	[797]
Ben Bluff was a whaler, and many a day	[619]
Beside a Primrose 'broider'd Rill	[139]
Between Adam and me the great difference is	[367]
Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose	[82]
Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides	[784]
"Bon jour, Madame Sans Souci	[950]
Bright breaks the warrior o'er the ocean wave	[879]
Brisk methinks I am, and fine	[772]
"Bunches of grapes," says Timothy	[947]
By the side of a murmuring stream an elderly gentleman sat	[665]
Bye Baby Bunting	[324]
Calm and implacable	[375]
"Can you spare a Threepenny bit	[901]
Careless rhymer, it is true	[185]
Celestine Silvousplait Justine de Mouton Rosalie	[51]
Charm is a woman's strongest arm	[247]
Chilly Dovebber with his boadigg blast	[747]
Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast	[909]
"Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life	[367]
Come! fill a fresh bumper,—for why should we go	[833]
Come fleetly, come fleetly, my hooksbadar	[843]
"Come here, my boy; hould up your head	[103]
Come hither, my heart's darling	[454]
Come into the Whenceness Which	[476]
"Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again	[676]
Come mighty Must!	[376]
Comrades, you may pass the rosy. With permission of the chair	[537]
De Hen-roost Man he'll preach about Paul	[247]
Dear maid, let me speak	[810]
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold	[269]
Dear Thomas, didst thou never pop	[262]
Delmonico's is where he dines	[267]
Der Kaiser of dis Faterland	[291]
Der noble Ritter Hugo	[669]
Did you hear of the Widow Malone	[126]
Dighton is engaged! Think of it and tremble!	[647]
Do not worry if I scurry from the grill room in a hurry	[67]
Do you know why the rabbits are caught in the snare	[214]
Do you think I'll marry a woman	[817]
Doe, doe!	[746]
Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaäy?	[354]
Down in the silent hallway	[889]
Easy is the triolet	[782]
Echo, tell me, while I wander	[751]
Even is come; and from the dark Park, hark	[823]
Everywhere, everywhere, following me	[430]
Exquisite wines and comestibles	[316]
Far off in the waste of desert sand	[851]
Far, oh, far is the Mango island	[194]
"Farewell!" Another gloomy word	[419]
Felis Infelix Cat unfortunate	[736]
First there's the Bible	[769]
For his religion it was fit	[271]
From Arranmore the weary miles I've come	[378]
From his brimstone bed at break of day	[298]
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through	[459]
From the madding crowd they stand apart	[227]
From the tragic-est novels at Mudie's	[144]
"Gentle, modest little flower	[28]
"Gimme my scarlet tie,"	[334]
Gin a body meet a body	[483]
Gineral B. is a sensible man	[292]
Given a roof, and a taste for rations	[311]
Go and catch a falling star	[330]
Go 'way, fiddle; folks is tired o' hearin' you a-squawkin'	[672]
"God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender!	[368]
"God bless the man who first invented sleep!"	[44]
God makes sech nights, all white an' still	[110]
Good Luck is the gayest of all gay girls	[334]
Good people all, of every sort	[764]
Good people all, with one accord	[740]
Good reader! if you e'er have seen	[444]
"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom	[369]
Half a bar, half a bar	[528]
Hamelin Town's in Brunswick	[603]
Handel, Bendel, Mendelssohn	[772]
Hans Breitmann gife a barty	[668]
Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife	[316]
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay	[580]
He cannot be complete in aught	[367]
He dropt a tear on Susan's bier	[157]
He dwelt among "Apartments let,"	[491]
He girded on his shining sword	[100]
He is too weet a melancholy carle	[496]
He killed the noble Mudjokivis	[482]
He lived in a cave by the seas	[331]
He stood on his head by the wild seashore	[75]
He thought he saw an Elephant	[874]
He took her fancy when he came	[817]
He was the chairman of the Guild	[244]
Hear what Highland Nora said	[159]
Her heart she locked fast in her breast	[209]
Her little feet! ... Beneath us ranged the sea	[59]
Her washing ended with the day	[494]
Here lies my wife: here let her lie!	[368]
Here lieth one, who did not most truly prove	[780]
Here's to the town of New Haven	[949]
Hi! Just you drop that! Stop, I say!	[460]
His eye was stern and wild—his cheek was pale and cold as clay	[450]
History, and nature, too, repeat themselves, they say	[360]
How do the daughters	[533]
"How does the water	[743]
How hard, when those who do not wish	[818]
How old may Philis be, you ask	[332]
How uneasy is his life	[344]
Hyder iddle didle dell	[879]
Hypocrisy will serve as well	[365]
I am	[900]
I am a friar of orders gray	[282]
I am an ancient Jest!	[72]
I come from good old Boston	[949]
I am a hearthrug	[377]
I am a lone, unfeathered chick	[903]
I am numb from world-pain	[380]
I, Angelo, obese, black-garmented	[428]
I asked of Echo, t'other day	[750]
I cannot praise the doctor's eyes	[368]
I cannot sing the old songs	[413]
I cannot tell you how I love	[235]
I couldn't help weeping with delight	[521]
I count it true which sages teach	[413]
I devise to end my days—in a tavern drinking	[834]
I du believe in Freedom's cause	[294]
I do confess, in many a sigh	[86]
I don't go much on religion	[657]
I don't know any greatest treat	[180]
I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week	[853]
I dwells in the Hearth, and I breathes in the Hair	[763]
I gaed to spend a week in Fife	[350]
I hae laid a herring in saut	[216]
I haf von funny leedle poy	[940]
I have a bookcase, which is what	[40]
I have a copper penny and another copper penny	[809]
I have felt the thrill of passion in the poet's mystic book	[32]
I have found out a gig-gig-gift for my fuf-fuf-fair	[822]
I have made me an end of the moods of maidens	[511]
I have watch'd thee with rapture, and dwelt on thy charms	[456]
I knew an old wife lean and poor	[611]
I know not of what we ponder'd	[63]
I know when milk does flies contain	[343]
I lately lived in quiet ease	[218]
I lay i' the bosom of the sun	[407]
I love my lady with a deep purple love	[383]
I love thee, Mary, and thou lovest me	[206]
"I love you, my lord!"	[120]
I marvell'd why a simple child	[543]
I may as well	[685]
I never rear'd a young gazelle	[544]
I never saw a Purple Cow	[948]
"I never saw a purple cow	[515]
I recollect a nurse call'd Ann	[156]
I remember, I remember	[107]
I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James	[650]
I said, "This horse, sir, will you shoe?"	[809]
I sat one night beside a blue-eyed girl	[207]
I saw a certain sailorman who sat beside the sea	[70]
I saw a peacock with a fiery tail	[804]
I sent for Ratcliffe; was so ill	[365]
I sent my love a parcel	[262]
I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau	[212]
I sometimes think I'd rather crow	[891]
I strolled beside the shining sea	[844]
I tell thee, Dick, where I have been	[704]
I walked and came upon a picket fence	[470]
I was in Margate last July. I walk'd upon the pier	[558]
I wonder what your thoughts are, little cloud	[134]
I would all womankind were dead	[88]
I would flee from the city's rule and law	[883]
I would that all men my hard case might know	[397]
I wrote some lines once on a time	[38]
I wus mighty good-lookin' when I was young	[129]
I yearn to bite on a Colloid	[91]
I'd Never Dare to Walk across	[855]
I'd read three hours. Both notes and text	[142]
If all be true that I do think	[364]
If all the harm women have done	[248]
If all the land were apple-pie	[951]
If all the trees in all the woods were men	[238]
If down his throat a man should choose	[844]
If e'er my rhyming be at fault	[55]
If ever there lived a Yankee lad	[690]
If I go to see the play	[48]
If I should die to-night	[489]
If I were thine, I'd fail not of endeavour	[345]
If I were you, when ladies at the play, Sir	[146]
If, in the month of dark December	[80]
If life were never bitter	[436]
If the man who turnips cries	[949]
If there is a vile, pernicious	[60]
If thou wouldst stand on Etna's burning brow	[445]
If we square a lump of pemmican	[880]
If you become a nun, dear	[206]
I'll sing you a song, not very long	[275]
I'll tell thee everything I can	[870]
I'm taught p-l-o-u-g-h	[761]
I'm thankful that the sun and moon	[882]
"Immortal Newton never spoke	[369]
In a church which is furnish'd with mullion and gable, I	[280]
In a Devonshire lane as I trotted along	[266]
In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow	[368]
In an ocean, 'way out yonder	[929]
In Ballades things always contrive to get lost	[441]
In Broad Street Buildings on a winter night	[563]
In candent ire the solar splendour flames	[849]
In days of peace my fellow-men	[31]
In early youth, as you may guess	[918]
In form and feature, face and limb	[108]
In heaven a spirit doth dwell	[472]
In his chamber, weak and dying	[785]
In Köln, a town of monks and bones	[363]
In letters large upon the frame	[347]
In London I never know what I'd be at	[265]
In our hearts is the Great One of Avon	[824]
In the age that was golden, the halcyon time	[338]
In the "Foursome" some would fain	[222]
In the lonesome latter years	[429]
In these days of indigestion	[77]
"In winter, when the fields are white	[872]
Inglorious friend! most confident I am	[734]
Interred beneath this marble stone	[765]
Is moss-prankt dells which the sunbeams flatter	[372]
It is told, on Buddhi-theosophic schools	[92]
It is very aggravating	[50]
It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day	[601]
It may be so—perhaps thou hast	[236]
It once might have been, once only	[339]
It was a millinger most gay	[186]
It was a Moorish maiden was sitting by the well	[196]
It was a robber's daughter, and her name was Alice Brown	[639]
It was a summer's evening	[252]
It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side	[583]
It was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine	[904]
It was a hairy oubit, sac proud he crept alabg	[330]
It was in a pleasant deepô, sequestered from the rain	[613]
It was many and many a year ago	[532]
It ripen'd by the river banks	[444]
It worries me to beat the band	[137]
Its eyes are gray	[121]
I've been trying to fashion a wifely ideal	[68]
Jacob! I do not like to see thy nose	[914]
Jem writes his verses with more speed	[363]
Jim Bowker, he said, if he'd had a fair show	[357]
John Alcohol, my foe, John	[529]
John Bull for pastime took a prance	[808]
John Gilpin was a citizen of credit and renown	[564]
John Grumlie Swore by the light o' the moon	[326]
Just take a trifling handful, O philosopher	[314]
Kitty wants to write! Kitty intellectual!	[646]
Knitting is the maid o' the kitchen, Milly	[220]
Knows he that never took a pinch	[832]
La Galisse now I wish to touch	[814]
Lady Clara Vere de Vere!	[412]
Lady, I loved you all last year	[327]
Lady mine, most fair thou art	[221]
Lady, very fair are you	[184]
Lanty was in love, you see	[208]
Last year I trod these fields with Di	[155]
Lazy-bones, lazy-bones, wake up and peep!	[848]
Lest it may more quarrels breed	[279]
Life and the Universe show spontaneity	[315]
Life is a gift that most of us hold dear	[357]
Life would be an easy matter	[57]
Lilies, lilies, white lilies and yellow	[379]
Like to the thundering tone of unspoke speeches	[848]
Little bopeepals	[324]
Little I ask; my wants are few	[238]
Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay	[934]
Little Penelope Socrates	[284]
Lives there a man with a soul so dead	[786]
Long by the willow-trees	[439]
Lord Erskine, at women presuming to rail	[366]
Malbrouck, the prince of commanders	[28]
Man is for woman made	[41]
Many a long, long year ago	[664]
Margarita first possess'd	[176]
Marry, I lent my gossip my mare, to fetch home coals	[807]
Mary had a little lamb	[506]
Matilda Maud Mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin	[395]
May the Babylonish curse	[726]
Men, Dying, make their wills, but wives	[362]
Men once were surnamed for their shape or estate	[804]
'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam	[498]
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn	[229]
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa!	[95]
Miss Flora McFlimsey, of Madison Square	[148]
Mr. Finney had a turnip	[847]
My brother Jack was nine in May	[390]
My coachman, in the moonlight there	[359]
My curse upon you venom'd stang	[724]
My dear young friend, whose shining wit	[42]
My feet, they haul me Round the House	[855]
My Heart will break—I'm sure it will	[183]
My lank limp lily, my long lithe lily	[510]
My little dears, who learn to read, pray early, learn to shun	[828]
My Love has sicklied unto Loath	[410]
My Madeline! my Madeline!	[773]
My passion is as mustard strong	[754]
My pipe is lit, my grog is mixed	[342]
My temples throb, my pulses boil	[49]
My William was a soldier, and he says to me, says he	[598]
Mysterious Nothing! how shall I define	[786]
Nay, I cannot come into the garden just now	[188]
"Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going?	[249]
Night saw the crew like pedlars with their packs	[841]
No fault in women, to refuse	[166]
No longer, O scholars, shall Platus	[826]
No sun—no moon!	[792]
No usual words can bear the woe I feel	[379]
Nothing to do but work	[358]
Now Jake looked up—it was time to sup, and the buckets was yet to fill	[421]
Now the Widow McGee	[165]
O cool in the summer is salad	[436]
"O Crikey, Bill!" she ses to me, she ses	[400]
O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!	[781]
O, if my love offended me	[184]
O lady wake!—the azure moon	[886]
O mickle yeuks the keckle doup	[384]
O my earliest love, who, ere I number'd	[116]
O nymph with the nicest of noses	[544]
O precious code, volume, tome	[825]
O reverend sir, I do declare	[195]
O say, have you seen at the willows so green	[921]
O Season supposed of all free flowers	[527]
O the quietest home on earth had I	[720]
O thou wha in the heavens dost dwell	[272]
O what harper could worthily harp it	[64]
O'er the men of Ethiopia she would pour her cornucopia	[160]
Of all life's plagues I recommend to no man	[76]
Of all the girls that are so smart	[182]
Of all the mismated pairs ever created	[480]
Of all the men one meets about	[370]
Of all the rides since the birth of time	[688]
Of all the wimming doubly blest	[241]
Of priests we can offer a charmin' variety	[719]
Oh, but she was dark and shrill	[509]
Oh, dewy was the morning, upon the first of May	[949]
Oh, I have been North, and I have been South, and the East hath seen me pass	[403]
Oh! I have loved thee fondly, ever	[732]
Oh, I know a certain woman who is reckoned with the good	[132]
Oh, I used to sing a song	[768]
Oh, I want to win me hame	[385]
Oh listen, little children, to a proper little song	[937]
Oh, many have told of the monkeys of old	[913]
Oh, Mary had a little lamb, regarding whose cuticular	[477]
Oh, my Geraldine	[180]
Oh, sing a song of phosphates	[324]
Oh, solitude thou wonder-working fay	[457]
Oh, tell me have you ever seen a red, long-leg'd Flamingo?	[894]
Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize!	[851]
Oh, the days were ever shiny	[204]
Oh, the fisherman is a happy wight!	[81]
Oh, the Roman was a rogue	[753]
"Oh, 'tis time I should talk to your mother	[181]
Oh, 'twas O'Nolan M'Figg	[700]
Oh, what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes!	[26]
"Oh! what is that comes gliding in	[800]
Oh, what's the way to Arcady?	[201]
Oh, Wing Tee Wee	[139]
Oh, would that working I might shun	[47]
Oh, yes, we've be'n fixin' some sence we sold that piece o' groun'	[192]
Oh! young Lochinvar has come out of the West	[381]
Old Grimes is dead; that good old man	[766]
Old man never had much to say	[678]
Old Nick, who taught the village school	[174]
On wan dark night on Lac St. Pierre	[662]
On me he shall ne'er put a ring	[191]
On the Coast of Goromandel	[859]
On the downtown side of an uptown street	[79]
On the eighth day of March it was, some people say	[58]
One day the dreary old King of death	[801]
One evening while reclining	[268]
One morning when Spring was in her teens	[188]
One of the kings of Scanderoon	[578]
One stormy morn I chanced to meet	[123]
One, who is not, we see; but one, whom we see not, is	[458]
Or ever a lick of Art was done	[383]
Out of the clothes that cover me	[471]
Out on the margin of moonshine land	[858]
Out rode from his wild, dark castle	[49]
Out upon it, I have loved	[218]
Over the way, over the way	[125]
Paddy, in want of a dinner one day	[571]
Paddy McCabe was dying one day	[307]
Peerless yet hapless maid of Q!	[787]
Perchance it was her eyes of blue	[74]
Perhaps you may a-noticed I been soht o' solemn lately	[157]
Philosophy shows us 'twixt monkey and man	[92]
Ph, it's H-A-P-P-Y I am, and it's F-R-double-E	[816]
Poor Lucy Lake was overgrown	[463]
Potiphar Gubbins, C.E.	[226]
Pour varlet, pour the water	[486]
Power to thine elbow, thou newest of sciences	[409]
Quest.—Why is a pump like Viscount Castlereagh?	[370]
Qui nune dancere vult modo	[832]
Quixotic is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is	[25]
Quoth John to Joan, will thou have me	[217]
Rain on the face of the sea	[427]
Remembering his taste for blood	[893]
Roll on, thou ball, roll on!	[256]
Rooster her sign	[414]
Row-diddy, dow de, my little sis	[670]
Said Opie Read to E. P. Roe	[948]
Said the Raggedy Man on a hot afternoon	[856]
Saint Anthony at church	[251]
Sally Salter, she was a young lady who taught	[812]
Sam Brown was a fellow from way down East	[52]
Say there! P'r'aps	[652]
Scintillate scintillate, globule orific	[476]
"Scorn not the sonnet," though its strength be sapped	[281]
See yonder goes old Mendax, telling lies	[369]
Sez Alderman Grady	[232]
Sez Corporal Madden to Private McFadden	[230]
Shall I, mine affections slack	[526]
She flung the parlour window wide	[205]
Shepherd. Echo, I wean, will in the woods reply	[752]
She kept her secret well, oh, yes	[158]
She stood beneath the mistletoe	[196]
She went around and asked subscriptions	[167]
Side by side in the crowded streets	[393]
Sin, I admit your general rule	[363]
Since for kissing thee, Minguillo	[122]
Sing for the garish eye	[875]
Singee a songee sick a pence	[530]
Singing through the forests	[748]
Sir Guy was a doughty crusader	[644]
Sleep, my own darling	[932]
Slim feet than lilies tenderer	[477]
Sly Beelzebub took all occasions	[364]
So slowly you walk, and so quickly you eat	[369]
So that's Cleopathera's Needle, bedad	[105]
Some ladies now make pretty songs	[367]
Some poets sing of sweethearts dead	[223]
Speak gently to the herring and kindly to the calf	[891]
"Speak, O man less recent!	[46]
Spontaneous Us!	[417]
Stiff are the warrior's muscles	[456]
Strange pie that is almost a passion	[472]
Strike the concertina's melancholy string!	[641]
Sudden swallows swiftly skimming	[774]
Superintendent wuz Flannigan	[225]
Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack?	[399]
Swans sing before they die:—'twere no bad thing	[364]
Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy	[830]
Take a robin's leg	[76]
That man must lead a happy life	[803]
That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not)	[493]
The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup	[87]
The auld wife sat at her ivied door	[467]
The Ballyshannon foundered off the coast of Cariboo	[256]
The cat is in the parlour	[950]
The chill November day was done	[938]
The Crankadox leaned o'er the edge of the moon	[855]
The crow—the crow! the great black crow!	[908]
The day was done, and darkness	[490]
The editor sat with his head in his hands	[447]
The Emperor Nap he would set off	[775]
The fable which I now present	[249]
The frugal crone, whom praying priest attend	[285]
The gallows in my garden, people say	[224]
The hale John Spratt—oft called for shortness, Jack	[406]
"The Herring he loves the merry moonlight	[949]
The honey-moon is very strange	[366]
The jackals prowl, the serpents hiss	[445]
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!	[586]
The King was sick. His cheek was red	[658]
The Lady Jane was tall and slim	[590]
The Laird o' Cockpen, he's proud and he's great	[703]
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy, hairy goat	[906]
The man in the wilderness asked of me	[951]
The man who invented women's waists that button down behind	[94]
The Messed Damozel leaned out	[471]
The Microbe is so very small	[907]
The mountain and the squirrel	[290]
The night was thick and hazy	[617]
The oft'ner seen, the more I lust	[807]
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea	[901]
The Pobble who has no toes	[865]
The poet is, or ought to be, a hater of the city	[97]
The Pope he leads a happy life	[70]
"The proper way for a man to pray,"	[54]
The prospect is bare and white	[42]
The Roof it has a Lazy Time	[855]
The saddest fish that swims the briny ocean	[900]
The sextant of the meetinouse, which sweeps	[66]
The skies they were ashen and sober	[423]
The sun is in the sky, mother, the flowers are springing fair	[451]
The sun was setting, and vespers done	[313]
The sun was shining on the sea	[896]
The Thingumbob sat at eventide	[882]
The town of Nice! the town of Nice!	[438]
The woggly bird sat on the whango tree	[842]
The woodchuck told it all about	[312]
There be two men of all mankind	[35]
There is a river clear and fair	[535]
There lived an old man in the kingdom of Tess	[866]
There lived a sage in days of yore	[850]
There once was a Shah had a second son	[199]
There sat an old man on a rock	[348]
There's a bower of bean-vines in Benjamin's yard	[493]
There's somewhat on my breast, father	[443]
There wanst was two cats at Kilkenny	[950]
There was a Cameronian cat	[917]
There was a child, as I have been told	[946]
There was a cruel darkey boy	[927]
There was a lady liv'd at Leith	[742]
There was a little girl	[926]
There was a man in Arkansaw	[697]
There was a negro preacher, I have heard	[274]
There was an old man of Tobago	[835]
There was a snake that dwelt in Skye	[887]
There was a young lady of Niger	[948]
There was (not a certain when) a certain preacher	[282]
There was once a little man, and his rod and line he took	[200]
There were three jovial huntsmen	[878]
There were three kings into the east	[730]
There were three young maids of Lee	[170]
There were three sailors of Bristol City	[546]
There were two of us left in the berry-patch	[479]
These are the things that make me laugh	[73]
They called him Bill, the hired man	[653]
They nearly strike me dumb	[153]
They're always abusing the women	[126]
They spoke of Progress spiring round	[337]
They stood on the bridge at midnight	[489]
They tell me (but I really can't	[600]
They told hum gently he was made	[89]
They've got a brand-new organ, Sue	[162]
They went to sea in a sieve, they did	[862]
Thine eyes, dear ones, dot dot, are like, dash, what?	[824]
This is the tale that was told to me	[680]
Thou art like unto a Flower	[427]
Thou happy, happy elf!	[941]
Thou shall have one God only, who	[261]
Thou who, when fears attack	[732]
Though I met her in the summer, when one's heart lies round at east	[345]
Three children sliding on the ice	[843]
Three score and ten by common calculation	[99]
Tim Turpin he was gravel blind	[795]
'Tis midnight and the moonbeam sleeps	[411]
'Tis midnight, and the setting sun	[843]
'Tis sweet at dewy eve to rove	[450]
'Tis sweet to roam when morning's light	[878]
To Lake Aghmoogenegamook	[757]
To make this condiment, your poet begs	[93]
The outer senses they are geese	[509]
To see the Kaiser's epitaph	[948]
To Urn, or not to Urn? that is the question	[534]
To you, my purse, and to none other wight	[58]
Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles	[141]
Trilobite, Graphtolite, Nautilus pie	[324]
"True 'tis a P T, and P T 'tis, 'tis true"	[788]
'Twas a pretty little maiden	[161]
'Twas after supper of Norfolk brawn	[884]
'Twas April when she came to town	[120]
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves	[869]
'Twas brussels, and the loose liege	[482]
'Twas ever thus from childhood's hour!	[469]
'Twas gilbert. The kchesterton	[437]
'Twas late, and the gay company was gone	[446]
'Twas more than a million years ago	[497]
'Twas on a lofty vase's side	[557]
'Twas on a windy night	[214]
'Twas on the shores that round our coast	[632]
'Twas raw, and chill, and cold outside	[98]
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house	[935]
'Twas whispered in heaven, 'twas muttered in hell	[762]
Two gentlemen their appetite had fed	[666]
Two honest tradesmen meeting in the Strand	[254]
Two old Bachelors were living in one house	[868]
Two webfoot brothers loved a fair	[629]
Two Yankee wags, one summer day	[572]
Tying her bonnet under her chin	[124]
Uncle Simon he	[849]
Upon a rock, yet uncreate	[771]
Upon an island, all alone	[683]
Upon ane stormy Sunday	[190]
Upon the poop the captain stands	[876]
Wake! for the Hack can scatter into flight	[512]
Wal, no! I can't tell whar he lives	[661]
Wan from the wild and woful West	[386]
Was once a hen of wit not small	[892]
We climbed to the top of Goat Point hill	[210]
We love thee Ann Maria Smith	[389]
We rode the tawny Texan hills	[288]
We seek to know, and knowing seek	[463]
We were crowded in the cabin	[492]
We've lived for forty years, dear wife	[246]
Well I recall how first I met	[30]
Werther had a love for Charlotte	[140]
What asks the Bard? He prays for nought	[320]
What, he on whom our voices unanimously ran	[286]
What is Earth, sexton—A place to dig graves	[810]
What is the matter with Grandpapa?	[950]
What lightning shall light it? What thunder shall tell it?	[404]
What makes you come here fer, Mister	[925]
What motley cares Corilla's mind perplex	[278]
What! not know our Clean Clara?	[283]
"What other men have dared, I dare."	[109]
What poor short-sighted worms we be	[353]
What? rise again with all one's bones	[363]
What, what, what	[710]
What will we do when the good days come	[311]
Whenas to shoot my Julia goes	[418]
When Chapman billies leave the street	[623]
When dido found Aeneas would not come	[366]
When good King Arthur ruled the land	[879]
When I am dead you'll find it hard	[109]
When I had firmly answered "no,"	[431]
When I was young and full o' pride	[115]
When lovely woman wants a favor	[494]
When Mary Ann Dollinger got the skule daown thar on Injun Bay	[168]
When men a dangerous disease did 'scape	[365]
When moonlike ore the hazure seas	[34]
When nettles in winter bring forth roses red	[276]
When sporgles spanned the floreate mead	[877]
When swallows Northward flew	[191]
When that old joke was new	[33]
When the breeze from the bluebottle's blustering blim	[852]
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock	[34]
When the landlord wants the rent	[336]
When the little armadillo	[902]
When they heard the Captain humming and beheld the dancing crew	[615]
When you slice a Georgy melon you mus' know what you is at	[73]
Whene'er I take my walks abroad	[950]
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view	[84]
Where the Moosatockmaguntic	[113]
Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays	[402]
"Wherefore starts my bosom's lord?	[453]
Which I wish to remark	[648]
Which is of greater value, prythee, say	[371]
While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive	[370]
Who am I?	[434]
Who money hast, well wages the campaign	[323]
Who, or why, or which, or what	[708]
"Who stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in the shop	[309]
1. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour?	[783]
"Why do you wear your hair like a man	[474]
Why don't the men propose, mamma?	[130]
Why doth the pussy cat prefer	[895]
Why is it the children don't love me	[943]
Why should you swear I am forsworn	[241]
Why was Cupid a boy	[56]
Wisely a woman prefers to a lover a man who neglects her	[247]
With chocolate-cream that you buy in the cake	[932]
With due condescension, I'd call your attention	[106]
With ganial foire	[547]
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night	[928]
Ye may tramp the world over	[717]
Years—years ago—ere yet my dreams	[171]
Yes, write if you want to—there's nothing like trying	[36]
Yet another great truth I record in my verse	[906]
"You are old, Father William," the young man said	[485]
"You are old, Father William," the young man said	[531]
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come	[362]
You bid me try, Blue-eyes, to write	[782]
"You gave me the key of your heart, my love	[137]
"You have heard," said a youth to his sweetheart, who stood	[133]
You may notch it on the palin's as a mighty resky plan	[312]
"You must give back," her mother said	[198]
You prefer a buffoon to a scholar	[339]
You see this pebble-stone? It's a thing I bought	[464]
You Wi'yum, sir, dis minute. Wut dat you got	[325]
You wrote a line too much, my sage	[362]
Young Ben he was a nice young man	[792]
Young Rory O'More courted Kathleen Bawn	[141]
Your poem must eternal be	[364]
Zack Bumstead useter flosserfize	[242]
Zig-zagging it went	[760]

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INDEX OF TITLES

		page
A
Accepted and Will Appear	Parmenas Mix	[268]
Actor, An	John Wolcot	[287]
Ad Chloen, M. A.	Mortimer Collins	[184]
Address to the Toothache	Robert Burns	[724]
Æstivation	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[849]
After Dilettante Concetti	H. D. Traill	[474]
After Horace	A. D. Godley	[320]
Ahkoond of Swat, The	George Thomas Lanigan	[710]
Ahkond of Swat, The	Edward Lear	[708]
Ain't It Awful, Mabel?	John Edward Hazzard	[137]
Alarmed Skipper, The	James Thomas Fields	[664]
All at Sea	Frederick Moxon	[70]
All-Saints	Edmund Yates	[280]
All's Well That Ends Well	Unknown	[264]
All Things Except Myself I Know	François Villon	[343]
Amazing Facts About Food	Unknown	[91]
Ambiguous Lines	Unknown	[804]
American Traveller, The	Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr)	[751]
Angelo Orders His Dinner	Bayard Taylor	[428]
Annabel Lee	Stanley Huntley	[497]
Annuity, The	George Outram	[350]
Answer to Master Wither's Song, "Shall I, Wasting in Despair?"	Ben Jonson	[526]
Any One Will Do	Unknown	[169]
Appeal for Are to the Sextant of the Old Brick Meetinouse, A	Arabella Willson	[66]
Are Women Fair?	Francis Davison	[189]
Art of Book-keeping, The	Laman Blanchard	[818]
As to the Weather	Unknown	[107]
At the Sign of the Cock	Owen Seaman	[414]
B
Baby's Début, The	James Smith	[390]
Bachelor's Dream, The	Thomas Hood	[342]
Bachelor's Mono-Rhyme, A	Charles Mackay	[817]
Bald-headed Tyrant, The	Mary E. Vandyne	[720]
Ballad	Charles Stuart Calverley	[467]
Ballad, A	Guy Wetmore Carryl	[426]
Ballade of An Anti-Puritan, A	G. K. Chesterton	[337]
Ballade of Ballade-Mongers, A	Augustus M. Moore	[441]
Ballad of Bedlam, A	Unknown	[886]
Ballad of Bouillabaisse, The	W. M. Thackeray	[714]
Ballad of the Canal	Phœbe Cary	[492]
Ballad of Cassandra Brown, The	Helen Gray Cone	[345]
Ballad of Charity, A	Charles Godfrey Leland	[613]
Ballad of the Emeu, The	Bret Harte	[921]
Ballade of Forgotten Loves	Arthur Grissom	[223]
Ballade of the Golfer in Love	Clinton Scollard	[222]
Ballad of Hans Breitmann	Charles Godfrey Leland	[669]
Ballad of High Endeavor, A	Unknown	[484]
Ballad of the Oysterman, The	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[583]
Ballad of the Primitive Jest	Andrew Lang	[72]
Ballade of Suicide, A	G. K. Chesterton	[224]
Bangkolidye	Barry Pain	[334]
Barney McGee	Richard Hovey	[721]
Battle of Blenheim, The	Robert Southey	[252]
Behave Yoursel' Before Folk	Alexander Rodger	[174]
Behold the Deeds	H. C. Bunner	[397]
Bellancholly Days	Unknown	[747]
Belle of the Ball, The	Winthrop Mackworth Praed	[171]
Bells, The	Unknown	[816]
Ben Bluff	Thomas Hood	[619]
Bessie Brown, M. D.	Samuel Minturn Peck	[120]
Bird in the Hand, A	Frederic E. Weatherly	[170]
Birth of Saint Patrick, The	Samuel Lover	[58]
Bitter Bit, The	William E. Aytoun	[451]
Blow Me Eyes!	Wallace Irwin	[115]
Boston Lullaby, A	James Jeffrey Roche	[240]
Boston Nursery Rhymes	Rev. Joseph Cook	[324]
Broken Pitcher, The	William E. Aytoun	[86]
Bunches of Grapes	Walter Ramal	[947]
Buxom Joan	William Congreve	[179]
Bygones	Bert Leston Taylor	[383]
By Parcels Post	George R. Sims	[262]
C
Cacoethes Scribendi	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[238]
Camerados	Bayard Taylor	[430]
Cameronian Cat, The	Unknown	[917]
Candidate's Creed, The	James Russell Lowell	[294]
Cantelope, The	Bayard Taylor	[393]
Careful Penman, The	Unknown	[810]
Carman's Account of a Law Suit, A	Sir David Lindesay	[807]
Casey at the Bat	Ernest Lawrence Thayer	[601]
Catalectic Monody, A	Unknown	[833]
Cataract of Lodore, The	Robert Southey	[743]
Categorical Courtship	Unknown	[207]
Catfish, The	Oliver Herford	[900]
"Caudal" Lecture, A	William Sawyer	[92]
Cautionary Verses	Theodore Hook	[828]
Chemist to His Love, The	Unknown	[206]
Chloe, M. A.	Mortimer Collins	[185]
Chorus of Women	Aristophanes	[126]
Christmas Chimes	Unknown	[284]
Chronicle: A Ballad, The	Abraham Cowley	[176]
Circumstance	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[444]
Clean Clara	W. B. Rands	[283]
Cloud, The	Oliver Herford	[134]
Clown's Courtship, The	Unknown	[217]
Cock and the Bull, The	Charles Stuart Calverley	[464]
Cologne	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[363]
Colubriad, The	William Cowper	[909]
Comfort in Affliction	William E. Aytoun	[453]
Comic Miseries	John G. Saxe	[42]
Comical Girl, The	M. Pelham	[946]
Commonplaces	Rudyard Kipling	[427]
Companions	Charles Stuart Calverley	[63]
Confession, The	Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)	[443]
Conjugal Conjugations	A. W. Bellaw	[810]
Conjugal Conundrum, A	Unknown	[371]
Constancy	John Boyle O'Reilly	[137]
Constant Cannibal Maiden, The	Wallace Irwin	[194]
Contentment	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[238]
Contrast, The	Captain C. Morris	[265]
Converted Cannibals, The	G. E. Farrow	[683]
Cosmic Egg, The	Unknown	[771]
Cosmopolitan Woman, A	Unknown	[167]
Cossimbazar	Henry S. Leigh	[843]
Counsel to Those That Eat	Unknown	[932]
Country Summer Pastoral, A	Unknown	[883]
Courtin', The	James Russell Lowell	[110]
Courting in Kentucky	Florence E. Pratt	[168]
Cremation	William Sawyer	[534]
Crystal Palace, The	W. M. Thackeray	[547]
Culture in the Slums	William Ernest Henley	[400]
Cumberbunce, The	Paul West	[844]
Cupid	William Blake	[56]
Cupid	Ben Jonson	[211]
Cupid's Darts	Unknown	[67]
Cynical Ode to An Ultra-Cynical Public	Charles Mackay	[339]
Cynicus to W. Shakespeare	James Kenneth Stephen	[362]
D
Darius Green and His Flying-Machine	John Townsend Trowbridge	[690]
Darwinian Ballad	Unknown	[913]
Darwinity	Herman C. Merivale	[409]
Day Is Done," "The	Phœbe Cary	[490]
Deacon's Masterpiece, The	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[580]
Death's Ramble	Thomas Hood	[801]
Declaration, The	N. P. Willis	[446]
Devil's Walk on Earth, The	Robert Southey	[298]
Devonshire Lane, The	John Marriott	[266]
Dialogue from Plato, A	Austin Dobson	[142]
Dido	Richard Porson	[366]
Dighton Is Engaged	Gelett Burgess	[647]
Dinkey-Bird, The	Eugene Field	[929]
Dirge	Unknown	[787]
Dirge, A	William Augustus Croffut	[737]
Dirge of the Moolla of Kotal	George T. Lanigan	[712]
Disaster	Charles Stuart Calverley	[469]
Distichs	John Hay	[247]
Diversions of the Re-Echo Club	Carolyn Wells	[515]
Diverting History of John Gilpin, The	William Cowper	[564]
Divided Destinies	Rudyard Kipling	[704]
Donnybrook Jig, The	Viscount Dillon	[700]
Dora Versus Rose	Austin Dobson	[144]
Double Ballade of Primitive Man	Andrew Lang	[331]
Dutch Lullaby	Eugene Field	[928]
E
Early Rising	J. G. Saxe	[44]
Eastern Question, An	H. M. Paull	[598]
Echo	J. G. Saxe	[750]
Editor's Wooing, The	Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr)	[389]
Elderly Gentleman, The	George Canning	[665]
Elegy	Arthur Guiterman	[445]
Elegy, An	Oliver Goldsmith	[740]
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An	Oliver Goldsmith	[764]
Enchanted Shirt, The	John Hay	[658]
Endless Song, The	Ruth McEnery Stuart	[968]
Enigma on the Letter H	Catherine Fanshawe	[762]
Epitaph, An	George John Cayley	[366]
Epitaph, An	Matthew Prior	[765]
Epitaph Intended for His Wife	John Dryden	[368]
Erring in Company	Franklin P. Adams	[55]
Eternal Poem, An	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[364]
Etiquette	W. S. Gilbert	[256]
"Exactly So"	Lady T. Hastings	[61]
Extracts from the Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne	Gelett Burgess	[512]
F
Fable,	Ralph Waldo Emerson	[290]
Fair Millinger, The	Fred W. Loring	[186]
Faithless Nellie Gray	Thomas Hood	[797]
Faithless Sally Brown	Thomas Hood	[792]
False Love and True Logic	Laman Blanchard	[183]
Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents, A	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[36]
Farewell	Bert Leston Taylor	[419]
Farewell to Tobacco, A	Charles Lamb	[726]
Fastidious Serpent, The	Henry Johnstons	[887]
Father Molloy.	Samuel Lover	[307]
Father O'Flynn	Alfred Perceval Graves	[719]
Father William	Lewis Carroll	[485]
Father William	Unknown	[531]
Feminine Arithmetic	Charles Graham Halpine	[191]
Fernando and Elvira	W. S. Gilbert	[635]
Fin de Siècle	Unknown	[357]
Finnigin to Flannigan	S. W. Gillinan	[225]
First Banjo, The	Irwin Russell	[672]
First Love	Charles Stuart Calverley	[116]
Fish Story, A	Henry A. Beers	[916]
Fisherman's Chant, The	F. C. Burnand	[81]
Five Wives	Robert Herrick	[772]
Flamingo, The	Lewis Gaylord Clark	[894]
Foam and Fangs	Walter Parke	[544]
Fool and the Poet, The	Alexander Pope	[363]
For I Am Sad	Don Marquis	[379]
Forlorn One, The	Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)	[449]
Forty Years After	H. H. Porter	[210]
Fragment, A	Unknown	[450]
Friar of Orders Gray, The	John O'Keefe	[282]
Frog, The	Hilaire Belloc	[907]
From a Full Heart	A. A. Milne	[31]
Future of the Classics, The	Anonymous	[826]
G
Gentle Alice Brown	W. S. Gilbert	[639]
Gentle Echo on Woman, A	Dean Swift	[752]
Gifts Returned	Walter Savage Landor	[198]
Giles's Hope	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[363]
Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar, A	Guy Wetmore Carryl	[395]
Good and Bad Luck	John Hay	[334]
Goose, The	Lord Tennyson	[611]
Gouty Marchant and the Stranger, The	Horace Smith	[563]
Grain of Salt, A	Wallace Irwin	[241]
Grampy Sings a Song	Holman F. Day	[670]
Great Black Crow, The	Philip James Bailey	[908]
Great Fight, A	Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr)	[697]
H
Half Hours with the Classics	H. J. DeBurgh	[779]
Hans Breitmann's Party	Charles Godfrey Leland	[668]
Happy Man, The	Gilles Ménage	[814]
He and She	Eugene Fitch Ware	[109]
He Came to Pay	Parmenas Mix	[447]
Height of the Ridiculous, The	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[38]
Hen, The	Matthew Claudius	[892]
Hen-Roost Man, The	Ruth McEnery Stuart	[247]
Here Is the Tale	Anthony C. Deane	[421]
Here She Goes and There She Goes	James Nack	[572]
Her Little Feet	William Ernest Henley	[59]
Herring, The	Sir Walter Scott	[949]
Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[458]
Hiram Hover	Bayard Taylor	[113]
His Mother-in-Law	Walter Parke	[75]
Hoch! Der Kaiser	Rodney Blake	[291]
Holy Willie's Prayer	Robert Burns	[272]
Home and Mother	Mary Mapes Dodge	[932]
Homœopathic Soup	Unknown	[76]
Home Sweet Home with Variations	H. C. Bunner	[498]
Honey-Moon, The	Walter Savage Landor	[366]
House That Jack Built, The	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[407]
How the Daughters Come Down at Dunoon	H. Chalmondeley-Pennell	[533]
How Often	Ben King	[489]
How to Ask and Have	Samuel Lover	[181]
How to Eat Watermelons	Frank Libby Stanton	[73]
How to Make a Man of Consequence	Mark Lemon	[280]
Humpty Dumpty's Recitations	Lewis Carroll	[872]
Hundred Best Books, The	Mostyn T. Pigott	[769]
Hunting of the Snark, The	Lewis Carroll	[676]
Husband and Heathen Sam	Walter Foss	[160]
Husband's Petition, The	William B. Aytoun	[454]
Hyder Iddle	Unknown	[879]
Hypocrisy	Samuel Butler	[365]
I
Ideal Husband to His Wife, The	Sam Walter Foss	[246]
"I Didn't Like Him"	Harry B. Smith	[157]
Idyll of Phatte and Leene, An	Unknown	[406]
If	Unknown	[951]
If	Mortimer Collins	[436]
If	H. C. Dodge	[268]
If I Should Die To-night	Ben King	[489]
If the Man	Samuel Johnson	[949]
If They Meant All They Said	Alice Duer Miller	[247]
If We Didn't Have to Eat	Nixon Waterman	[57]
If You Have Seen	Thomas Moore	[444]
I Hae Laid a Herring in Saut	James Tytler	[216]
Imaginative Crisis, The	Unknown	[457]
Imagiste Love Lines	Unknown	[383]
Imitation	Anthony C. Deane	[375]
Imitation of Walt Whitman	Unknown	[434]
Imitation of Wordsworth, An	Catherine M. Fanshawe	[535]
Indifference	Unknown	[950]
In Memoriam	Cuthbert Bede	[463]
In Memoriam Technicam	Thomas Hood, Jr.	[413]
Invisible Bridge, The	Gelett Burgess	[855]
Invitation to the Zoölogical Gardens, An	Unknown	[822]
Inspect Us	Edith Daniell	[471]
In the Catacombs	Harlan Hoge Ballard	[52]
Irishman and the Lady, The	William Maginn	[742]
Irish Schoolmaster, The	James A. Sidey	[103]
Israfiddlestrings	Unknown	[472]
J
Jabberwocky	Lewis Carroll	[869]
Jabberwocky of Authors, The	Harry Parsons Taber	[437]
Jackdaw of Rheims, The	Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)	[586]
Jacob	Phœbe Cary	[491]
Jester Condemned to Death, The	Horace Smith	[578]
"Jim"	Bret Harte	[652]
Jim Bludso	John Hay	[661]
Jim-Jam King of the Jou-Jous	Alaric Bertrand Stuart	[851]
Job	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[364]
Jocosa Lyra	Austin Dobson	[824]
John Barleycorn	Robert Burns	[730]
John Grumlie	Allen Cunningham	[326]
John Thompson's Daughter	Phœbe Cary	[494]
Jovial Priest's Confession, The	Leigh Hunt	[834]
Joys of Marriage, The	Charles Cotton	[344]
Jumbles, The	Edward Lear	[862]
Justice to Scotland	Unknown	[384]
K
K. K.—Can't Calculate	Frances M. Whitcher	[353]
Kentucky Philosophy	Harrison Robertson	[325]
Kindly Advice	Unknown	[890]
Kindness to Animals	J. Ashby-Sterry	[891]
King Arthur	Unknown	[879]
King John and the Abbot	Unknown	[554]
Kilkenny Cats, The	Unknown	[950]
Kiss, The	Tom Masson	[109]
Kiss in the Rain, A	Samuel Minturn Peck	[123]
Kitchen Clock, The	John Vance Cheney	[220]
Kitty of Coleraine	Edward Lysaght	[130]
Kitty Wants to Write	Gelett Burgess	[646]
K. K.—Can't Calculate	F. M. Witcher	[354]
Knife-Grinder, The	George Canning	[249]
Knight and the Lady, The	Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)	[590]
L
Lady Mine	H. E. Clarke	[221]
Laird O'Cockpen, The	Lady Nairne	[703]
Lament of the Scotch Irish Exile	James Jeffrey Roche	[385]
Lanty Leary	Samuel Lover	[208]
Larrie O'Dee,	William W. Fink	[165]
Last Ride Together, The	James Kenneth Stephen	[431]
Latest Decalogue, The	Arthur Hugh Clough	[261]
Laughing Willow, The	Oliver Herford	[948]
Lawyer's Invocation to Spring, The	Henry Howard Brownell	[402]
Lay of Ancient Rome	Thomas R. Ybarra	[753]
Lay of the Deserted Influenzaed	N. Cholmondeley-Pennell	[746]
Lay of the Love Lorn, The	Aytoun, William E., and Martin	[537]
Lay of the Lover's Friend, The	William E. Aytoun	[88]
Lazy Roof, The	Gelett Burgess	[855]
Learned Negro, The	Unknown	[274]
Leedle Yawcob Straus	Charles Follen Adams	[940]
Legend of the First Cam-u-el, The	Arthur Guiterman	[888]
Legend of Heinz von Stein, The	Charles Godfrey Leland	[49]
Life	Unknown	[783]
Life in Laconics	Mary Mapes Dodge	[311]
Like to the Thundering Tone	Bishop Corbet	[848]
Lilies	Don Marquis	[379]
Limericks	Carolyn Wells	[835]
Lines	Unknown	[456]
Lines by an Old Fogy	Unknown	[882]
Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon	Unknown	[830]
Lines Written After a Battle	Unknown	[456]
Literary Lady, The	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	[278]
Little Billee	W. M. Thackeray	[546]
Little Breeches	John Hay	[657]
Little Goose, A	Eliza Sproat Turner	[938]
Little Mamma	Charles Henry Webb	[943]
Little Orphant Annie	James Whitcomb Riley	[934]
Little Peach, The	Eugene Field	[931]
Little Star, The	Unknown	[476]
Little Swirl of Vers Libre, A	Thomas R. Ybarra	[380]
Little Vagabond, The	William Blake	[269]
Llama, The	Hilaire Belloc	[906]
Logic	Unknown	[809]
Logical English	Unknown	[809]
Lord Guy	George F. Warren	[191]
Lost Pleiad, The	Arthur Reed Ropes	[161]
Lost Spectacles, The	Unknown	[287]
Love is Like a Dizziness	James Hogg	[218]
Lovers and a Reflection	Charles Stuart Calverley	[372]
Love Knot, The	Nora Perry	[124]
Lovelilts	Marion Hill	[824]
Love Playnt, A	Godfrey Turner	[408]
Love's Moods and Tenses	Unknown	[812]
Lucy Lake	Newton Mackintosh	[463]
Lugubrious Whing-Whang, The	James Whitcomb Riley	[858]
Lunar Stanzas	Henry Coggswell Knight	[841]
Lying	Thomas Moore	[86]
M
Madame Sans Souci	Unknown	[951]
Malbrouck	Father Prout	[28]
Man, The	Stephen Crane	[248]
Man in the Moon, The	James Whitcomb Riley	[856]
Man of Words, A	Unknown	[790]
Man's Place in Nature	Unknown	[89]
Manila	Eugene Fitch Ware	[949]
March to Moscow, The	Robert Southey	[775]
Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream	Oliver Herford	[30]
Martial in London	Mortimer Collins	[316]
Martin Luther at Potsdam	Barry Pain	[404]
Maud	Henry S. Leigh	[188]
Maudle-in-Ballad	Unknown	[510]
Mavrone	Arthur Guiterman	[378]
Meeting of the Clabberhuses, The	Sam Walter Foss	[244]
Melton Mowbray Pork-Pie, A	Richard le Gallienne	[472]
Mendax	Lessing	[369]
Messed Damozel, The	Charles Hanson Towne	[471]
Mexican Serenade	Arthur Guiterman	[902]
Microbe, The	Hilaire Belloc	[907]
Midsummer Madness	Unknown	[377]
Mighty Must, The	W. S. Gilbert	[376]
Millennuim, The	Robert Browning	[60]
Minguillo's Kiss	Unknown	[122]
Miniver Cheevy	Edward Arlington Robinson	[229]
Misadventures at Margate	Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)	[558]
Mis' Smith	Albert Bigelow Paine	[119]
Modern Hiawatha, The	Unknown	[482]
Modest Wit, A	Selleck Osborn	[260]
"Mona Lisa"	John Kendrick Bangs	[95]
Money	Jehan du Pontalais	[323]
More Impressions	Oscuro Wildgoose	[509]
More Walks	Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)	[950]
Mr. Finney's Turnip	Unknown	[847]
Mrs. Smith	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[155]
Musical Ass, The	Tomaso de Yriarte	[249]
My Angeline	Harry B. Smith	[158]
My Aunt's Spectre	Mortimer Collins	[600]
My Dream	Unknown	[853]
My Feet	Gelett Burgess	[855]
My Foe	Unknown	[529]
My Love and My Heart	Henry S. Leigh	[204]
My Madeline	Walter Parke	[773]
My Mistress's Boots	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[153]
N
Naughty Darkey Boy, The	Unknown	[927]
Nemesis	J. W. Foley	[94]
Nephelidia	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[459]
"Never Forget Your Parents"	Franklin P. Adams	[394]
New Church Organ, The	Will Carleton	[162]
New Song, A	John Gay	[754]
New Version, The	W. J. Lampton	[90]
New Vestments	Edward Lear	[866]
Ninety-Nine in the Shade	Rossiter Johnson	[781]
Nirvana	Unknown	[900]
No!	Thomas Hood	[792]
No Fault in Women	Robert Herrick	[166]
Nocturnal Sketch, A	Thomas Hood	[823]
Nongtongpaw	Charles Dibdin	[808]
Nonsense Verses	Charles Lamb	[848]
Nora's Vow	Sir Walter Scott	[159]
Northern Farmer	Lord Tennyson	[354]
North, East, South and West	Unknown	[403]
Nothing	Richard Porson	[786]
Nothing to Wear	William Allen Butler	[148]
Noureddin, The Son of the Shah	Clinton Scollard	[199]
Nun, The	Leigh Hunt	[206]
Nursery Legend, A	Henry S. Leigh	[937]
Nursery Rhymes à la Mode	Unknown	[509]
Nursery Song in Pidgin English	Unknown	[530]
O
Ocean Wanderer, The	Unknown	[879]
Ode for a Social Meeting	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[833]
Ode for a Social Meeting	Leigh Hunt	[834]
Ode to a Bobtailed Cat	Unknown	[936]
Ode to the Human Heart	Laman Blanchard	[784]
Ode to Tobacco	Charles Stuart Calverley	[732]
Ode to Work in Springtime	Thomas R. Ybarra	[47]
O D V	Unknown	[788]
Of a Certain Man	Sir John Harrington	[282]
Of All the Men	Thomas Moore	[370]
Of a Precise Tailor	Sir John Harrington	[322]
Of Baiting the Lion	Owen Seaman	[893]
Officer Brady	Robert W. Chambers	[232]
Oh, My Geraldine	F. C. Burnand	[180]
Old Bachelor, An	Tudor Jenks	[98]
Old Fashioned Fun	W. M. Thackery	[33]
Old Grimes	Albert Gorton Greene	[766]
Old Line Fence, The	A. W. Bellaw	[760]
Old Man and Jim, The	James Whitcomb Riley	[678]
Old Song by New Singers, An	A. C. Wilkie	[506]
Old Stuff	Bert Leston Taylor	[48]
On the Aristocracy of Harvard	Dr. Samuel G. Bushnell	[949]
On a Bad Singer	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[364]
On Butler's Monument	Rev. Samuel Wesley	[370]
On a Deaf Housekeeper	Unknown	[76]
On the Death of a Favorite Cat	Thomas Gray	[557]
On the Democracy of Yale	Dean Jones	[949]
On the Downtown Side of an Uptown Street	William Johnstone	[79]
On a Full-Length Portrait of Beau Marsh	Lord Chesterfield	[369]
On Hearing a Lady Praise a Certain Rev. Doctor's Eyes	George Outram	[368]
On Knowing When to Stop	L. J. Bridgman	[312]
On a Magazine Sonnet	Russell Hilliard Loines	[281]
On the Oxford Carrier	John Milton	[780]
On Scotland	Cleveland	[369]
On a Sense of Humor	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[367]
On Taking a Wife	Thomas Moore	[367]
Only Seven	Henry S. Leigh	[543]
Optimism	Newton Mackintosh	[445]
Origin of Ireland, The	Unknown	[106]
Original Lamb, The	Unknown	[477]
Orphan Born	Robert J. Burdette	[903]
Oubit, The	Charles Kingsley	[330]
O-u-g-h	Charles Battell Loomis	[761]
Ould Doctor Mack	Alfred Perceval Graves	[717]
Our Hymn	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[374]
Our Native Birds	Nathan Haskell Dole	[53]
Our Traveller	Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell	[445]
Out of Sight, Out of Mind	Barnaby Googe	[807]
Out Upon it	Sir John Suckling	[218]
Over the Way	Mary Mapes Dodge	[125]
Owen Seaman	Louis Untermeyer	[480]
Owl and the Pussy Cat, The	Edward Lear	[901]
Owl-Critic, The	James Thomas Fields	[309]
P
Paddy O'Rafther	Samuel Lover	[571]
Pairing-Time Anticipated	William Cowper	[212]
Palabras Grandiosas	Bayard Taylor	[407]
Panegyric on the Ladies	Unknown	[803]
Paradise	George Birdseye	[281]
Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months, A	Thomas Hood	[941]
Parson Gray	Oliver Goldsmith	[741]
Parterre, The	E. H. Palmer	[180]
Pensées de Noël	A. D. Godley	[336]
Pessimism	Newton Mackintosh	[338]
Pessimist, The	Ben King	[358]
Pet's Punishment	J. Ashby-Sterry	[184]
Phillis's Age	Matthew Prior	[332]
Philosopher, A	Sam Walter Foss	[242]
Phyllis Lee	Oliver Herford	[139]
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The	Robert Browning	[603]
Pig, The	Robert Southey	[914]
Pilgrims and the Peas, The	John Wolcot	[621]
Pin, A	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	[132]
Plaidie, The	Charles Sibley	[190]
Plain Language from Truthful James	Bret Harte	[648]
Played-Out Humorist, The	W. S. Gilbert	[25]
Plea for Trigamy, A	Owen Seaman	[68]
Pobble Who Has No Toes, The	Edward Lear	[865]
Poe-'em of Passion, A	C. F. Lummis	[532]
Poets at Tea, The	Barry Pain	[486]
Polka Lyric, A	Barclay Philips	[832]
Poor Dear Grandpapa	D'Arcy W. Thompson	[950]
Pope, The	Chas. Lever	[70]
Pope and the Net, The	Robert Browning	[286]
Portrait, A	John Keats	[496]
Positivists, The	Mortimer Collins	[315]
Post Captain, The	Charles E. Carryl	[615]
Post-Impressionism	Bert Leston Taylor	[235]
Practical Joker, The	W. S. Gilbert	[26]
Prayer of Cyrus Brown, The	Sam Walter Foss	[54]
Prehistoric Smith	David Law Proudfit	[83]
Presto Furioso	Owen Seaman	[417]
Prior to Miss Belle's Appearance	James Whitcomb Riley	[925]
Promissory Note, The	Bayard Taylor	[429]
Propinquity Needed	Charles Battell Loomis	[51]
Purple Cow, The	Gelett Burgess	[948]
Q
Quaker's Meeting, The	Samuel Lover	[576]
Quest of the Purple Cow, The	Hilda Johnson	[100]
Questions with Answers	Unknown	[810]
Quite by Chance	Frederick Langbridge	[205]
R
Razor Seller, The	John Wolcot	[297]
Reasons for Drinking	Dr. Henry Aldrich	[364]
Recruit, The	Robert W. Chambers	[230]
Reflections on Cleopathera's Needle	Cormac O'Leary	[105]
Rejected "National Hymns," The	Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr)	[387]
Religion of Hudibras, The	Samuel Butler	[271]
Remedy Worse than the Disease, A	Matthew Prior	[365]
Report of an Adjudged Case	William Cowper	[82]
Retired Cat, The	William Cowper	[910]
Retired Pork-Butcher and the Spook	G. E. Farrow	[685]
Retort, The	George Pope Morris	[174]
Rev. Gabe Tucker's Remarks	Unknown	[312]
Reuben	Phœbe Cary	[493]
Rhyme for Musicians, A	E. Lemke	[772]
Rhyme of the Rail	John G. Saxe	[748]
Rhymester, A	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[363]
Riddle, A	Unknown	[951]
Rigid Body Sings	J. C. Maxwell	[483]
Robert Frost	Louis Untermeyer	[479]
Robinson Crusoe's Story	Charles E. Carryl	[617]
Rollicking Mastodon, The	Arthur Macy	[853]
Romance of the Carpet, The	Robert J. Burdette	[674]
Romaunt of Humpty Dumpty The	Henry S. Leigh	[411]
Rondeau, The	Austin Dobson	[782]
Rondelay, A	Peter A. Motteux	[41]
Rory O'More; or, Good Omens	Samuel Lover	[141]
Ruling Passion, The	Alexander Pope	[285]
Rural Bliss	Anthony C. Deane	[97]
Rural Raptures	Unknown	[450]
S
Sabine Farmer's Serenade, The	Father Prout	[214]
Said Opie Reed	Julian Street and Montgomery Flagg	[948]
Sailor's Yarn, A	James Jeffrey Roche	[680]
Sainte Margerie	Unknown	[477]
Salad	Mortimer Collins	[436]
Salad	Sydney Smith	[93]
Sally in Our Alley	Henry Carey	[182]
Sally Simkin's Lament	Thomas Hood	[800]
Same Old Story	Harry B. Smith	[360]
Sary "Fixes Up" Things	Albert Bigelow Paine	[192]
Saying, Not Meaning	William Basil Wake	[666]
School	James Kenneth Stephen	[60]
Schoolmaster, The	Charles Stuart Calverley	[64]
Scientific Proof	J. W. Foley	[880]
Secret Combination, The	Ellis Parker Butler	[209]
Select Passages from a Coming Poet	F. Anstey	[410]
Senex to Matt. Prior	James Kenneth Stephen	[362]
Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe	H. C. Bunner	[40]
Shipwreck, The	H. Palmer	[876]
Siege of Belgrade, The	Unknown	[813]
Siege of Djklxprwbz, The	Eugene Fitch Ware	[96]
Similes	Unknown	[791]
Simile, A	Matthew Prior	[262]
Sing for the Garish Eye	W. S. Gilbert	[875]
Sir Guy the Crusader	W. S. Gilbert	[644]
Sketch from the Life, A	Arthur Guiterman	[121]
Skipper Treson's Ride	John Greenleat Whittier	[688]
Sky-Making	Mortimer Collins	[314]
Smack in School, The	William Pitt Palmer	[128]
Smatterers	Samuel Butler	[365]
Society upon the Stanislaus The	Bret Harte	[650]
"Soldier, Rest!"	Robert J. Burdette	[374]
Some Hallucinations	Lewis Carroll	[874]
Some Ladies	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[367]
Some Little Bug	Roy Atwell	[77]
Somewhere-in-Europe-Wocky	F. G. Hartswick	[482]
Song	Joseph Addison	[751]
Song	George Canning	[84]
Song	John Donne	[330]
Song	Richard Lovelace	[241]
Song	J. R. Ptanche	[99]
Song of Impossibilities, A	Winthrop Mackintosh Praed	[327]
Song of Sorrow, A	Charles Battell Loomis	[386]
Song of the Springtide	Unknown	[527]
"Songs Without Words"	Robert J. Burdette	[413]
Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House	Unknown	[851]
Sonnet to a Clam	John G. Saxe	[734]
Sorrows of Werther, The	W. M. Thackeray	[140]
'Spacially Jim	Bessie Morgan	[129]
Spirk Throll-Derisiye	James Whitcomb Riley	[855]
Splendid Fellow, A	H. C. Dodge	[267]
Splendid Shilling, The	John Philips	[316]
St. Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes	Abraham á Sancta-Clara	[251]
Stanzas to Pale Ale	Unknown	[732]
St. Patrick of Ireland, My Dear!	William Maginn	[101]
Story of Prince Agib, The	W. S. Gilbert	[641]
Strictly Germ-Proof	Arthur Guiterman	[87]
Strike Among the Poets, A	Unknown	[785]
Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink	Rudyard Kipling	[226]
Styx River Anthology	Carolyn Wells	[521]
Surnames	James Smith	[804]
Susan	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[157]
Susan Simpson	Unknown	[774]
Sympathy	Reginald Heber	[270]
T
Takings	Thomas Hood, Jr.	[817]
Tam o' Shanter	Robert Burns	[623]
Ternary of Littles, Upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady, A	Robert Herrick	[806]
Terrible Infant, A	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[156]
'Tis Midnight	Unknown	[843]
'Tis Sweet to Roam	Unknown	[878]
That Gentle Man from Boston Town	Joaquin Miller	[629]
That Texan Cattle Man	Joaquin Miller	[288]
Thingumbob, The	Unknown	[882]
Then Ag'in	Sam Walter Foss	[357]
"There's a Bower of Bean-vines"	Phœbe Cary	[493]
There Was a Little Girl	Unknown	[926]
Third Proposition, The	Madeline Bridges	[345]
Thought, A	James Kenneth Stephen	[248]
Three Black Crows, The	John Byrom	[254]
Three Children	Unknown	[843]
Three Jovial Huntsmen	Unknown	[878]
Thursday	Frederick E. Weatherly	[313]
Tim Turpin	Thomas Hood	[795]
To a Blockhead	Alexander Pope	[362]
To a Capricious Friend	Joseph Addison	[368]
To a Fly	John Wolcot	[734]
To an Importunate Host	Unknown	[534]
To a Slow Walker and Quick Eater	Lessing	[369]
To a Thesaurus	Franklin P. Adams	[825]
To Be or Not To Be	Unknown	[891]
To Doctor Empiric	Ben Jonson	[365]
To Julia in Shooting Togs	Owen Seaman	[418]
To Marie	John Bennett	[852]
To Minerva	Thomas Hood	[49]
To My Empty Purse	Geoffrey Chaucer	[58]
To My Nose	Alfred A. Forrester (Alfred Croquill)	[832]
Too Late	Fitz Hugh Ludlow	[348]
To Phœbe	W. S. Gilbert	[28]
To the Pliocene Skull	Bret Harte	[46]
To the Portrait of "A Gentleman"	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[236]
To the Terrestrial Globe	W. S. Gilbert	[256]
Town of Nice, The	Herman C. Merivale	[438]
Tragic Story, A	W. M. Thackeray	[850]
Transcendentalism	Unknown	[92]
Translated Way	Franklin P. Adams	[427]
Travesty of Miss Fanshawe's Enigma	Horace Mayhew	[763]
Triolet	Paul T. Gilbert	[120]
Triolet, The	William Ernest Henley	[782]
True to Poll	F. C. Burnand	[275]
Trust in Women	Unknown	[276]
Truth About Horace, The	Eugene Field	[50]
Tu Quoque	Austin Dobson	[146]
Turtle and the Flamingo, The	James Thomas Fields	[923]
Turvey Top	William Sawyer	[884]
'Twas Ever Thus	Henry S. Leigh	[544]
Twelve Articles	Dean Swift	[279]
Twins, The	Henry S. Leigh	[108]
Two Fishes	Unknown	[188]
Two Men	Edwin Arlington Robinson	[35]
Two Old Bachelors, The	Edward Lear	[868]
V
Uffia	Harriet R. White	[877]
Ultimate Joy, The	Unknown	[32]
Unattainable, The	Harry Romaine	[141]
Uncle Simon and Uncle Jim	Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward)	[849]
Under the Mistletoe	George Francis Schults	[196]
Unexpected Fact, An	Edward Cannon	[844]
Unfortunate Miss Bailey	Unknown	[702]
Unsatisfied Yearning	R. K. Munkittrick	[889]
Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party	Thomas Moore	[367]
Up the Spout	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[460]
Usual Way, The	Frederick E. Weatherly	[200]
V
Vague Story, A	Walter Parke	[74]
V-A-S-E, The	James Jeffrey Roche	[227]
Village Choir, The	Unknown	[528]
Villanelle of Things Amusing	Gelett Burgess	[73]
Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves	William Ernest Henley	[399]
Viper, The	Hilaire Belloc	[906]
Visit from St. Nicholas, A	Clement Clarke Moore	[935]
W
Walrus and the Carpenter, The	Lewis Carroll	[896]
The Whango Tree	Unknown	[842]
War: A-Z, The	John R. Edwards	[829]
War Relief	Oliver Herford	[901]
Ways and Means	Lewis Carroll	[870]
Way to Arcady, The	H. C. Bunner	[201]
Wedding, A	Sir John Suckling	[704]
Wedding, The	Thomas Hood, Jr.	[412]
Well of St. Keyne, The	Robert Southey	[584]
What is a Woman Like?	Unknown	[118]
What's In a Name?	R. K. Munkittrick	[347]
What's My Thought Like?	Thomas Moore	[370]
What Will We Do?	Robert J. Burdette	[311]
Whatever Is, Is Right	Laman Blanchard	[786]
What Mr. Robinson Thinks	James Russell Lowell	[292]
Whenceness of the Which	Unknown	[476]
When Lovely Woman	Phoebe Cary	[494]
When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas	W. M. Thackeray	[34]
When the Frost Is on the Punkin	James Whitcomb Riley	[34]
Which Is Which	John Byrom	[368]
Whistler, The	Unknown	[133]
Why?	H. P. Stevens	[214]
Why Don't the Men Propose?	Thomas Haynes Bayly	[131]
Why Doth a Pussy Cat?	Surges Johnson	[895]
Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles	Frances M. Whicher	[195]
Widow Malone, The	Charles Lever	[126]
Wife, A	Richard Brinsley Sheriian	[366]
Wife, The	Phoebe Cary	[494]
William Brown of Oregon	Joaquin Miller	[653]
Willows, The	Bret Harte	[423]
Willow-Tree, The	W. M. Thackeray	[439]
Wing Tee Wee	J. P. Denison	[139]
Winter Dusk	R. K. Munkittrick	[42]
Within and Without	James Russell Lowell	[359]
Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, The	W. M. Thackeray	[552]
Woman's Will	John G. Saxe	[362]
Wonders of Nature	Unknown	[470]
Wordsworthian Reminiscence	Unknown	[470]
Wreck of the "Julie Plante"	William Henry Drummond	[662]
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos	Lord Byron	[80]
Y
Yak, The	Hilaire Belloc	[906]
Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"	W. S. Gilbert	[632]
Yonghy-Bonghy Ho, The	Edward Lear	[859]
Young Gazelle	Walter Parke	[918]
Young Lady of Niger, The	Unknown	[948]
Young Lochinvar	Unknown	[381]
Youth and Art	Robert Browning	[339]
Z
Zealless Xylographer, The	Mary Mapes Dodge	[759]

Transcriber's Notes