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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION PARODY AS A FINE ART

A PARODY ANTHOLOGY AFTER OMAR KHAYYAM THE GOLFER'S RUBAIYAT W

AFTER CHAUCER YE CLERKE OF YE WETHERE A CLERKE there was, a

AFTER SPENSER A PORTRAIT H E is to weet a melancholy carle:

AFTER SHAKESPEARE THE BACHELOR'S SOLILOQUY T O wed, or not to

AFTER WITHER ANSWER TO MASTER WITHERS SONG, "SHALL I, WASTING

AFTER HERRICK SONG G ATHER Kittens while you may, Time brings

AFTER NURSERY RHYMES AN IDYLL OF PHATTE AND LEENE T HE hale

AFTER WALLER THE AESTHETE TO THE ROSE G o, flaunting Rose! Tell

AFTER DRYDEN THREE BLESSINGS T HREE brightest blessings of this

AFTER DR. WATTS THE VOICE OF THE LOBSTER "'T IS the voice of

AFTER GOLDSMITH WHEN LOVELY WOMAN W HEN lovely woman wants a

AFTER BURNS GAELIC SPEECH; OR, "AULD LANG SYNE" DONE UP IN

AFTER CATHERINE FANSHAWE COCKNEY ENIGMA ON THE LETTER H I

AFTER WORDSWORTH ON WORDSWORTH H E lived amidst th' untrodden

AFTER SIR WALTER SCOTT YOUNG LOCHINVAR

AFTER COLERIDGE THE ANCIENT MARINER

AFTER SOUTHEY THE OLD MAN'S COLD AND HOW HE GOT IT

AFTER CAMPBELL THE NEW ARRIVAL T HERE came to port last Sunday

AFTER THOMAS MOORE THE LAST CIGAR 'T IS a last choice Havana I

AFTER JANE TAYLOR THE BAT T WINKLE, twinkle, little bat! How I

AFTER BARRY CORNWALL THE TEA T HE tea! The tea! The beef,

AFTER BYRON THE ROUT OF BELGRAVIA T HE Belgravians came down on

AFTER CHARLES WOLFE THE BURIAL OF THE BACHELOR

AFTER MRS. HEMANS THE THYROID GLAND "W E hear thee speak of the

AFTER KEATS I. ODE ON A JAR OF PICKLES A SWEET, acidulous,

AFTER HEINE IMITATION M Y love she leans from the window Afar

AFTER HOOD SONG OF THE SHEET THE DRIPPING SHEET

AFTER ALFRED BUNN A YULE-TIDE PARODY W HEN other wits and other

AFTER LORD MACAULAY THE LAUREATE'S TOURNEY

AFTER EMERSON MUTTON I F the fat butcher thinks he slays, Or

AFTER MARY HOWITT THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE "W ILL you walk a

AFTER MRS. BROWNING IN THE GLOAMING I N the gloaming to be

AFTER LONGFELLOW THE MODERN HIAWATHA

AFTER WHITTIER HIRAM HOVER

AFTER MRS. NORTON THE HORSE AND HIS MASTER

AFTER POE WHAT TROUBLED POE'S RAVEN C OULD Poe walk again

AFTER LORD HOUGHTON LOVE AND SCIENCE

AFTER TENNYSON THE BATHER'S DIRGE B REAK, break, break, On thy

AFTER TUPPER OF FRIENDSHIP C HOOSE judiciously thy friends; for

AFTER THACKERAY THE WILLOW-TREE

AFTER CHARLES DICKENS MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE

AFTER ROBERT BROWNING HOME TRUTHS FROM ABROAD I "O H! to be in

AFTER WHITMAN AN AMERICAN, ONE OF THE ROUGHS, A KOSMOS N ATURE,

AFTER CHARLES KINGSLEY THREE LITTLE FISHERS T HREE little

AFTER MRS. R. H. STODDARD THE NETTLE I F days were nights, I

AFTER BAYARD TAYLOR HADRAMAUT T HE grand conglomerate hills of

AFTER WILLIAM MORRIS ESTUNT THE GRIFF

AFTER ALFRED AUSTIN AN ODE I SING a song of sixpence, and of

AFTER W. S. GILBERT ODE TO A LONDON FOG

AFTER R. H. STODDARD THE CANTELOPE S IDE by side in the crowded

AFTER A. A. PROCTOR THE LOST VOICE S EATED at Church in the

AFTER GEORGE MEREDITH AT THE SIGN OF THE COCK

AFTER DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A CHRISTMAS WAIL

AFTER JEAN INGELOW LOVERS, AND A REFLECTION I N moss-prankt

AFTER CHRISTINA ROSSETTI REMEMBER R EMEMBER it, although you're

AFTER LEWIS CARROLL WAGGAWOCKY 'T WAS Maytime, and the lawyer

AFTER A. C. SWINBURNE GILLIAN

AFTER BRET HARTE THE HEATHEN PASS-EE

AFTER AUSTIN DOBSON THE PRODIGALS

AFTER ANDREW LANG BO-PEEP U NHAPPY is Bo-Peep, Her tears

AFTER W. E. HENLEY IMITATION C ALM and implacable, Eying

AFTER R. L. STEVENSON BED DURING EXAMS I USED to go to bed at

AFTER OSCAR WILDE MORE IMPRESSIONS

AFTER WILLIAM WATSON THE THREE MICE T HREE mice three

AFTER KIPLING FUZZY WUZZY LEAVES US W E'VE been visited by men

AFTER STEPHEN PHILLIPS LITTLE JACK HORNER L ittlE Jack Horner

AFTER FIONA McLEOD, W. B. YEATS, AND OTHERS THE CULT OF THE

AFTER VARIOUS WRITERS OF VERS DE SOCIETE BEHOLD THE DEEDS!

AFTER VARIOUS POPULAR SONGS BEAUTIFUL SNOW

THEMES WITH VARIATIONS HOME SWEET HOME WITH VARIATIONS

MODERN VERSIFICATION ON ANCIENT THEMES GOOSE - LA MODE Mary,

INDEX OF TITLES

INDEX OF AUTHORS

INDEX OF AUTHORS PARODIED

Transcriber's Note: This cover has been created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

A Parody Anthology

BY
CAROLYN WELLS
AUTHOR OF “A NONSENSE ANTHOLOGY"





NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1919

Copyright, 1904
By Charles Scribner's Sons



Published, September, 1904

TO
MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT