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A Bishop once—I will not name his see,[484]
A British tar is a soaring soul,[204]
A clergyman in Berkshire dwelt,[309]
A gentleman of City fame,[138]
A hive of bees, as I've heard say,[536]
A lady fair, of lineage high,[123]
A leafy cot, where no dry rot,[294]
Although of native maids the cream,[482]
A magnet hung in a hardware shop,[153]
A maiden sat at her window wide,[454]
A man who would woo a fair maid,[209]
A monarch is pestered with cares,[526]
A more humane Mikado never,[388]
An actor—Gibbs, of Drury Lane,[391]
An actor sits in doubtful gloom,[508]
An elderly person—a prophet by trade,[114]
An excellent soldier who's worthy the name,[399]
A proud Pasha was Bailey Ben,[242]
A rich advowson, highly prized,[356]
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,[99]
At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper,[58]
A tar, but poorly prized,[528]
A tenor, all singers above,[547]
A Troubadour he played,[51]
At the outset I may mention it's my sovereign intention,[515]
A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,[499]
Babette she was a fisher gal,[76]
Bedecked in fashion trim,[471]
Bob Polter was a navvy, and,[176]
Bold-faced ranger,[512]
Braid the raven hair,[113]
Brightly dawns our wedding day,[81]
Come, collar this bad man,[440]
Come mighty Must!,[367]
Come with me, little maid!,[24]
Comes a train of little ladies,[254]
Comes the broken flower,[329]
Dalilah de Dardy adored,[64]
Dr. Belville was regarded as the Crichton of his age,[146]
Earl Joyce he was a kind old party,[229]
Emily Jane was a nursery maid,[405]
Fear no unlicensed entry,[431]
First you're born—and I'll be bound you,[487]
From east and south the holy clan,[108]
Gentle, modest, little flower,[122]
Good children, list, if you're inclined,[221]
Haunted? Ay, in a social way,[39]
He is an Englishman!,[13]
He loves! If in the bygone years,[453]
I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,[42]
I cannot tell what this love may be,[169]
If my action's stiff and crude,[480]
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am,[16]
If you're anxious to shine in the high æsthetic line, as a man of
culture rare,		[271]
If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,[49]
I go away, this blessed day,[348]
I have a song to sing, O![182]
I knew a boor—a clownish card,[87]
I know a youth who loves a little maid,[361]
I love a man who'll smile and joke,[383]
I'm old, my dears, and shrivelled with age, and work, and grief,[214]
In all the towns and cities fair,[131]
In enterprise of martial kind,[262]
I often wonder whether you,[376]
I once did know a Turkish man,[549]
I shipped, d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop,[6]
I sing a legend of the sea,[273]
Is life a boon?[38]
I stole the Prince, and I brought him here,[26]
It's my opinion—though I own,[473]
It was a Bishop bold,[44]
It was a robber's daughter, and her name was Alice Brown,[205]
I've often thought that headstrong youths,[164]
I've painted Shakespeare all my life,[287]
I've wisdom from the East and from the West,[299]
John courted lovely Mary Ann,[28]
King Borria Bungalee Boo,[155]
Letters, letters, letters, letters![501]
List while the poet trolls,[8]
Lord B. was a nobleman bold,[475]
Macphairson Clonglocketty Angus M'Clan,[185]
Mr. Blake was a regular out-and-out hardened sinner,[256]
My boy, you may take it from me,[458]
My wedded life,[534]
No nobler captain ever trod,[492]
Now, Jurymen, hear my advice,[411]
Now, Marco, dear,[345]
O'er unreclaimed suburban clays,[148]
Of all the good attorneys who,[125]
Of all the ships upon the blue,[1]
Of all the youths I ever saw,[94]
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,[161]
Oh, big was the bosom of brave Alum Bey,[317]
Oh, foolish fay,[32]
Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray,[136]
Oh! is there not one maiden breast,[143]
Oh! listen to the tale of little Annie Protheroe,[280]
Oh, listen to the tale of Mister William, if you please,[235]
Oh, list to this incredible tale,[171]
Oh! little maid!—(I do not know your name),[82]
Oh! my name is John Wellington Wells,[211]
Oh, that my soul its gods could see,[71]
Oh, what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes![523]
Old Peter led a wretched life,[413]
On all Arcadia's sunny plain,[433]
On a tree by a river a little tomtit,[354]
Once a fairy,[446]
Only a dancing girl,[14]
Perhaps already you may know,[426]
Policeman Peter Forth I drag,[193]
Prithee, pretty maiden—prithee, tell me true,[397]
Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is[553]
Rising early in the morning,[119]
Roll on, thou ball, roll on![539]
Sad is that woman's lot who, year by year,[22]
Sighing softly to the river,[219]
Sir Guy was a doughty crusader,[34]
Small titles and orders,[84]
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,[497]
Some seven men form an Association,[490]
Some time ago, in simple verse,[338]
Sorry her lot who loves too well,[286]
Spurn not the nobly born,[307]
Strike the concertina's melancholy string,[518]
Take a pair of sparkling eyes,[175]
The air is charged with amatory numbers,[92]
The Ballyshannon foundered off the coast of Cariboo,[541]
The bravest names for fire and flames,[18]
The earth has armies plenty,[248]
The law is the true embodiment,[191]
The other night, from cares exempt,[368]
There grew a little flower,[418]
There lived a King, as I've been told,[424]
The Reverend Micah Sowls,[467]
There were three niggers of Chickeraboo,[200]
The story of Frederick Gowler,[301]
The sun was setting in its wonted west,[460]
The Sun, whose rays,[56]
They intend to send a wire,[106]
This is Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo,[324]
To a garden full of posies,[130]
Try we life-long, we can never,[466]
'Twas on the shores that round our coast,[101]
Two better friends you wouldn't pass,[363]
Vast, empty shell![144]
Weary at heart and extremely ill,[265]
Were I a king in very truth,[504]
Were I thy bride,[374]
What time the poet hath hymned,[445]
When a felon's not engaged in his employment,[63]
When all night long a chap remains,[292]
When a merry maiden marries,[198]
When Britain really ruled the waves,[74]
Whene'er I poke sarcastic joke,[69]
When first my old, old love I knew,[439]
When I first put this uniform on,[322]
When I, good friends, was called to the Bar,[315]
When I was a lad I served a term,[227]
When I went to the Bar as a very young man,[278]
When maiden loves, she sits and sighs,[255]
When man and maiden meet, I like to see a drooping eye,[330]
When rival adorers come courting a maid,[420]
When the buds are blossoming,[403]
When the night wind howls in the chimney cowl, and the bat in
the moonlight flies,		[381]
When you find you're a broken-down critter,[506]
When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd
by anxiety,		[335]
Would you know the kind of maid,[240]

ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO TITLES

Page
Æsthete, The,[271]
Ah Me!,[255]
Anglicised Utopia,[497]
Annie Protheroe,[280]
Ape and the Lady, The,[123]
Appeal, An,[143]
At a Pantomime,[508]
A Worm will Turn,[383]
Babette's Love,[76]
Baby's Vengeance, The,[265]
Baffled Grumbler, The,[69]
Baines Carew, Gentleman,[125]
Ben Allah Achmet; or, the Fatal Tum,[549]
Bishop and the 'Busman, The,[44]
Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo, The,[108]
Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo Again, The,[376]
Blue Blood,[307]
Bob Polter,[176]
Braid the Raven Hair,[113]
Brave Alum Bey,[317]
British Tar, The,[204]
Bumboat Woman's Story, The,[214]
Captain and the Mermaids, The,[273]
Captain Reece,[1]
Classical Revival, A,[505]
Coming By-and-By, The,[22]
Contemplative Sentry, The,[292]
Cunning Woman, The,[433]
Damon v. Pythias,[363]
Darned Mounseer, The,[6]
Disagreeable Man, The,[16]
Disconcerted Tenor, The,[547]
Discontented Sugar Broker, A,[138]
Disillusioned,[71]
Don't Forget!,[345]
Duke and the Duchess, The,[84]
Duke of Plaza-Toro, The,[262]
Eheu Fugaces—!,[92]
Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen,[185]
Emily, John, James, and I,[405]
English Girl, An,[499]
Englishman, The,[13]
Etiquette,[541]
Fairy Curate, The,[446]
Fairy Queen's Song, The,[32]
Family Fool, The,[161]
Ferdinando and Elvira; or, the Gentle Pieman,[58]
Fickle Breeze, The,[219]
First Lord's Song, The,[227]
First Love,[299]
Folly of "Brown, The,[87]
Force of Argument, The,[475]
General John,[18]
Gentle Alice Brown,[205]
Ghosts' High Noon, The,[381]
Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin, The,[148]
Girl Graduates,[106]
Good Little Girls,[482]
Great Oak Tree, The,[418]
Gregory Parable, LL.D.[294]
Haughty Actor, The,[391]
Haunted,[39]
He and She,[361]
Heavy Dragoon, The,[49]
He Loves![453]
Her Terms,[534]
Highly Respectable Gondolier, The,[26]
Hongree and Mahry,[460]
House of Peers, The,[74]
How it's Done,[512]
Humane Mikado, The,[388]
Independent Bee, The,[536]
Is Life a Boon?[38]
Joe Golightly; or, the First Lord's Daughter,[528]
John and Freddy,[28]
Judge's Song, The,[315]
King Borria Bungalee Boo,[155]
King Goodheart,[424]
King of Canoodle-dum, The,[301]
Lieutenant-Colonel Flare,[248]
Life,[487]
Life is Lovely all the Year,[403]
Limited Liability,[490]
Little Oliver,[229]
Lorenzo de Lardy,[64]
Lost Mr. Blake,[256]
Love-sick Boy, The,[439]
Magnet and the Churn, The,[153]
Manager's Perplexities, A,[504]
Man who would Woo a Fair Maid, A,[209]
Martinet, The,[338]
Merry Madrigal, A,[81]
Merryman and his Maid, The,[182]
Mighty Must, The,[367]
Mirage, A,[374]
Mister William,[235]
Modern Major-General, The,[42]
Modest Couple, The,[330]
My Dream,[368]
My Lady,[471]
Mystic Selvagee, The,[426]
National Anthem, The,[526]
Nightmare, A,[335]
Old Paul and Old Tim,[420]
One against the World,[473]
Only a Dancing Girl,[14]
Only Roses,[130]
Out of Sorts,[506]
Pantomime "Super" to his Mask, The,[144]
Pasha Bailey Ben,[242]
Perils of Invisibility, The,[413]
Periwinkle Girl, The,[164]
Peter the Wag,[193]
Phantom Curate, The,[484]
Philosophic Pill, The,[299]
Phrenology,[440]
Played-out Humorist, The,[553]
Poetry Everywhere,[445]
Policeman's Lot, The,[63]
Practical Joker, The,[523]
Precocious Baby, The,[114]
Proper Pride,[56]
Put a Penny in the Slot,[280]
Recipe, A,[175]
Reverend Micah Sowls, The,[467]
Reverend Simon Magus, The,[356]
Reward of Merit, The,[146]
Rival Curates, The,[8]
Rover's Apology, The,[136]
Said I to Myself, Said I,[278]
Sailor Boy to his Lass, The,[348]
Sans Souci,[169]
Sensation Captain, The,[492]
Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo,[324]
Sir Guy the Crusader,[34]
Sir Macklin,[94]
Sleep on![431]
Solatium,[329]
Sorcerer's Song, The,[211]
Sorry her Lot,[286]
Speculation,[254]
Story of Prince Agib, The,[518]
Suicide's Grave, The,[354]
Susceptible Chancellor, The,[191]
Tangled Skein, The,[466]
Tempora Mutantur,[501]
They'll None of 'em be Missed,[99]
Thomas Winterbottom Hance,[131]
Thomson Green and Harriet Hale,[171]
Three Kings of Chickeraboo, The,[200]
To a Little Maid,[24]
To my Bride,[82]
To Ph[oe]be,[122]
To the Terrestrial Globe,[539]
Troubadour, The,[51]
True Diffidence,[458]
Two Majors, The,[399]
Two Ogres, The,[221]
Unfortunate Likeness, An,[287]
Usher's Charge, The,[411]
Way of Wooing, The,[454]
When a Merry Maiden Marries,[198]
When I First Put this Uniform On,[322]
Willow Waly![397]
Working Monarch, The,[119]
Would you Know?[240]
Yarn of the "Nancy Bell," The,[101]

THE END.

Transcriber's Notes

1.Simple typographical errors were silently corrected.