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



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 AEstivation 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 Francois 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 Debut, 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 Ph[oe]be 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 Ph[oe] be 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 Siecle 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 Menage 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 Hom[oe]opathic 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 Zoological 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 Ph[oe]be 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 Ph[oe]be 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 a 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 Pensees de Noel 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 Ph[oe]be 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 a 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" Ph[oe]be 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 Ph[oe]be 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

U 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 Sheridan 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 Nylographer, The Mary Mapes Dodge 759



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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

It is not always obvious if verses in the original have been split through pagination; if there is doubt the split has been retained.

'Ode for a Social Meeting' has some words struck out and replaced above with alternatives. This has been represented with the struck-out words underlined in red and the alternate words in boxes above. The font has been switched to monospaced to accurately align the two.

Both "Geoffrey" and "Goeffrey" are used as spellings for Geoffrey Chaucer's name without obvious reason. The spelling has been standardised here to the more commonly accepted (today) version "Geoffrey".

The title of "Spirk, Troll-Derisive" uses both "Troll" and "Throll" throughout the original text. The spelling has been standardised here to "Troll".

"There is no poem in the original beginning 'Oh! Weary mother' and it appears to have been an error. The page reference, '000,' is from the original."

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