A Parody Anthology

CONTENTS

After Omar Khayyam		Page
The Golfer's Rubaiyat	H. W. Boynton	3
An Omar for Ladies	Josephine Daskam Bacon	5
The Modern Rubaiyat	Kate Masterson	7
Lines Written by Request	Owen Seaman	10
The Baby's Omar	Carolyn Wells	12
After Chaucer
Ye Clerke of ye Wethere	Anonymous	14
After Spenser
A Portrait	John Keats	15
After Shakespeare
The Bachelor's Soliloquy	Anonymous	17
Poker	Anonymous	18
Toothache	Anonymous	19
A Dreary Song	Shirley Brooks	20
To the Stall-holders at a Fancy Fair	W. S. Gilbert	21
Song	J. W. Riley	22
The Whist Player's Soliloquy	Carolyn Wells	23
After Wither
Answer to Master Wither's Song	Ben Jonson	25
After Herrick
Song	Oliver Herford	27
To Julia Under Lock and Key	Owen Seaman	27
After Nursery Rhymes
An Idyll of Phatte and Leene	Anonymous	29
Nursery Song in Pidgin English	Anonymous	30
The House that Jack Built	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	31
Boston Nursery Rhymes	Rev. Joseph Cook	32
A Song of a Heart	Oliver Herford	33
The Domicile of John	A. Pope	34
Mary and the Lamb	Frank Dempster Sherman	37
After Waller
The Aesthete to the Rose	Punch	40
After Dryden
Three Blessings	Anonymous	41
Oyster Crabs	Carolyn Wells	41
After Dr. Watts
The Voice of the Lobster	Lewis Carroll	42
The Crocodile	Lewis Carroll	43
After Goldsmith
When Lovely Woman	Phoebe Cary	44
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After Thackeray
The Willow-Tree	W. M. Thackeray	188
After Charles Dickens
Man's Place in Nature	Anonymous	191
After Robert Browning
Home Truths from Abroad	Anonymous	193
After Browning	Anonymous	194
The Cock and the Bull	Charles S. Calverley	195
A Staccato to O Le Lupe	Bliss Carman	200
By the Sea	Bayard Taylor	203
Angelo Orders his Dinner	Bayard Taylor	205
The Flight of the Bucket	Rudyard Kipling	206
The Jam Pot	Rudyard Kipling	210
Imitation of Robert Browning	J. K. Stephen	210
The Last Ride Together	J. K. Stephen	212
Up the Spout	A. C. Swinburne	215
After Walt Whitman
An American, one of the Roughs, a Kosmos	Anonymous	219
Camerados	Bayard Taylor	220
Imitation of Whitman	Judy	221
Imitation of Whitman	J. K. Stephen	224
The Poet and the Woodlouse	A. C. Swinburne	224
After Charles Kingsley
Three Little Fishers	Frank H. Stauffer	229
The Three Poets	Lilian Whiting	230
After Mrs. R. H. Stoddard
The Nettle	Bayard Taylor	231
After Bayard Taylor
Hadramaut	Bayard Taylor	233
After William Morris
Estunt the Griff	Rudyard Kipling	235
After Alfred Austin
An Ode	Anthony C. Deane	237
After W. S. Gilbert
Ode to a London Fog	Anonymous	239
President Garfield	Anonymous	240
Propinquity Needed	Charles Battell Loomis	241
After R. H. Stoddard
The Cantelope	Bayard Taylor	243
After A. A. Proctor
The Lost Voice	A. H. S.	244
The Lost Ape	J. W. G. W.	[xix] [xx] [xxi] Clyx.com