CONTENTS
The Played-Out Humorist W. S. Gilbert 25
The Practical Joker W. S. Gilbert 26
To Phoebe W. S. Gilbert 28
Malbrouck Father Prout 29
Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream Oliver Herford 30
From a Full Heart A. A. Milne 31
The Ultimate Joy Unknown 32
Old Fashioned Fun W. M. Thackeray 33
When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas W. M. Thackeray 34
When the Frost is on the Punkin James Whitcomb Riley 34
Two Men Edwin Arlington Robinson 35
A Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents Oliver Wendell Holmes 36
The Height of the Ridiculous Oliver Wendell Holmes 38
Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe H. C. Bunner 40
A Rondelay Peter A. Motteux 41
Winter Dusk R. K. Munkittrick 42
Comic Miseries John G. Saxe 42
Early Rising John G. Saxe 44
To the Pliocene Skull Bret Harte 46
Ode to Work in Springtime Thomas R. Ybarra 47
Old Stuff Bert Leston Taylor 48
To Minerva Thomas Hood 49
The Legend of Heinz Von Stein Charles Godfrey Leland 49
The Truth About Horace Eugene Field 50
Propinquity Needed Charles Battell Loomis 51
In the Catacombs Harlan Hoge Ballard 52
Our Native Birds Nathan Haskell Dole 53
The Prayer of Cyrus Brown Sam Walter Foss 54
Erring in Company Franklin P. Adams 55
Cupid William Blake 56
If We Didn't Have to Eat Nixon Waterman 57
To My Empty Purse Geoffrey Chaucer 58
The Birth of Saint Patrick Samuel Lover 58
Her Little Feet William Ernest Henley 59
School James Kenneth Stephen 60
The Millennium James Kenneth Stephen 60
"Exactly So" Lady T. Hastings 61
Companions Charles Stuart Calverley 63
The Schoolmaster Charles Stuart Calverley 64
A Appeal for Are to the Sextant of the old Brick Meetinouse Arabella Willson 66
Cupid's Darts Unknown 67
A Plea for Trigamy Owen Seaman 68
The Pope Charles Lever 70
All at Sea Frederick Moxon 70
Ballad of the Primitive Jest Andrew Lang 72
Villanelle of Things Amusing Gelett Burgess 73
How to Eat Watermelons Frank Libby Stanton 73
A Vague Story Walter Parke 74
His Mother-in-Law Walter Parke 75
On a Deaf Housekeeper Unknown 76 [Pgxi]
Homoeopathic Soup Unknown 76
Some Little Bug Roy Atwell 77
On the Downtown Side of an Uptown Street William Johnston 79
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos Lord Byron 80
The Fisherman's Chant F. C. Burnand 81
Report of an Adjudged Case William Cowper 82
Prehistoric Smith David Law Proudfit 83
Song George Canning 84
Lying Thomas Moore 86
Strictly Germ-Proof Arthur Guiterman 87
The Lay of the Lover's Friend William B. Aytoun 88
Man's Place in Nature Unknown 89
The New Version W. J. Lampton 90
Amazing Facts About Food Unknown 91
Transcendentalism Unknown 92
A "Caudal" Lecture William Sawyer 92
Salad Sydney Smith 93
Nemesis J. W. Foley 94
"Mona Lisa" John Kendrick Bangs 95
The Siege of Djklxprwbz Eugene Fitch Ware 96
Rural Bliss Anthony C. Deane 97
An Old Bachelor Tudor Jenks 98
Song J. R. PlanchÉ 99
The Quest of the Purple Cow Hilda Johnson 100
St. Patrick of Ireland, My Dear! William Maginn 101
The Irish Schoolmaster James A. Sidey 103
Reflections on Cleopathera's Needle Cormac O'Leary 105
The Origin of Ireland Unknown 106
As to the Weather Unknown 107
The Twins Henry S. Leigh 108
II: THE ETERNAL FEMININE
He and She Eugene Fitch Ware 109
The Kiss Tom Masson 109
The Courtin' James Russell Lowell 110
Hiram Hover Bayard Taylor 113
Blow Me Eyes! Wallace Irwin 115
First Love Charles Stuart Calverley 116
What Is a Woman Like? Unknown 118
Mis' Smith Albert Bigelow Paine 119
Triolet Paul T. Gilbert 120
Bessie Brown, M.D. Samuel Minturn Peck 120
A Sketch from the Life Arthur Guiterman 121
Minguillo's Kiss Unknown 122
A Kiss in the Rain Samuel Minturn Peck 123
The Love-Knot Nora Perry 124
Over the Way Mary Mapes Dodge 125
Chorus of Women Aristophanes 126
The Widow Malone Charles Lever 126
The Smack in School William Pitt Palmer 128
'SpÄcially Jim Bessie Morgan 129
Kitty of Coleraine Edward Lysaght 130
Why Don't the Men Propose? Thomas Haynes Bayly 130
A Pin Ella Wheeler Wilcox 132
The Whistler Unknown 133
The Cloud Oliver Herford 134
Constancy John Boyle O'Reilly 137
Ain't it Awful, Mabel? John Edward Hazzard 137
Wing Tee Wee J. P. Denison 139 [Pgxii]
Phyllis Lee Oliver Herford 139
The Sorrows of Werther W. M. Thackeray 140
The Unattainable Harry Romaine 141
Rory O'More; or, Good Omens Samuel Lover 141
A Dialogue from Plato Austin Dobson 142
Dora Versus Rose Austin Dobson 144
Tu Quoque Austin Dobson 146
Nothing to Wear William Allen Butler 148
My Mistress's Boots Frederick Locker-Lampson 153
Mrs. Smith Frederick Locker-Lampson 155
A Terrible Infant Frederick Locker-Lampson 156
Susan Frederick Locker-Lampson 157
"I Didn't Like Him" Harry B. Smith 157
My Angeline Harry B. Smith 158
Nora's Vow Sir Walter Scott 159
Husband and Heathen Sam Walter Foss 160
The Lost Pleiad Arthur Reed Ropes 161
The New Church Organ Will Carleton 162
Larrie O'Dee William W. Fink 165
No Fault in Women Robert Herrick 166
A Cosmopolitan Woman Unknown 167
Courting in Kentucky Florence E. Pratt 168
Any One Will Do Unknown 169
A Bird in the Hand Frederic E. Weatherly 170
The Belle of the Ball Winthrop Mackworth Praed 171
The Retort George Pope Morris 174
Behave Yoursel' Before Folk Alexander Rodger 174
The Chronicle: A Ballad Abraham Cowley 176
Buxom Joan William Congreve 179
Oh, My Geraldine F. C. Burnand 180
The Parterre E. H. Palmer 180
How to Ask and Have Samuel Lover 181
Sally in Our Alley Henry Carey 182
False Love and True Logic Laman Blanchard 183
Pet's Punishment J. Ashby-Sterry 184
Ad Chloen, M.A. Mortimer Collins 184
Chloe, M.A. Mortimer Collins 185
The Fair Millinger Fred W. Loring 186
Two Fishers Unknown 188
Maud Henry S. Leigh 188
Are Women Fair? Francis Davison 189
The Plaidie Charles Sibley 190
Feminine Arithmetic Charles Graham Halpine 191
Lord Guy George F. Warren 191
Sary "Fixes Up" Things Albert Bigelow Paine 192
The Constant Cannibal Maiden Wallace Irwin 194
Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles Frances M. Whitcher 195
Under the Mistletoe George Francis Shults 196
The Broken Pitcher William E. Aytoun 196
Gifts Returned Walter Savage Landor 198
III: LOVE AND COURTSHIP
Noureddin, the Son of the Shah Clinton Scollard 199
The Usual Way Frederic E. Weatherly 200
The Way to Arcady H. C. Bunner 201
My Love and My Heart Henry S. Leigh 204
Quite by Chance Frederick Langbridge 205
The Nun Leigh Hunt 206
The Chemist to His Love Unknown 206
Categorical Courtship Unknown 370
A Conjugal Conundrum Unknown 371
VII: BURLESQUE
Lovers and a Reflection Charles Stuart Calverley 372
Our Hymn Oliver Wendell Holmes 374
"Soldier, Rest!" Robert J. Burdette 374
Imitation Anthony C. Deane 375
The Mighty Must W. S. Gilbert 376
Midsummer Madness Unknown 377
Mavrone Arthur Guiterman 378 [Pgxvi]
Lilies Don Marquis 379
For I am Sad Don Marquis 379
A Little Swirl of Vers Libre Thomas R. Ybarra 380
Young Lochinvar Unknown 381
Imagiste Love Lines Unknown 383
Bygones Bert Lesion Taylor 383
Justice to Scotland Unknown 384
Lament of the Scotch-Irish Exile James Jeffrey Roche 385
A Song of Sorrow Charles Battell Loomis 386
The Rejected "National Hymns" Robert H. Newell 387
The Editor's Wooing Robert H. Newell 389
The Baby's Debut James Smith 390
The Cantelope Bayard Taylor 393
Never Forget Your Parents Franklin P. Adams 394
A Girl was Too Reckless of Grammar Guy Wetmore Carryl 395
Behold the Deeds! H. C. Bunner 397
Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves William Ernest Henley 399
Culture in the Slums William Ernest Henley 400
The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring Henry Howard Brownell 402
North, East, South, and West Unknown 403
Martin Luther at Potsdam Barry Pain 404
An Idyll of Phatte and Leene Unknown 406
The House that Jack Built Samuel Taylor Coleridge 407
Palabras Grandiosas Bayard Taylor 407
A Love Playnt Godfrey Turner 408
Darwinity Herman C. Merivale 409
Select Passages from a Coming Poet F. Anstey 410
The Romaunt of Humpty Dumpty Henry S. Leigh 411
The Wedding Thomas Hood, Jr. 412
In Memoriam Technicam Thomas Hood, Jr. 413
"Songs Without Words" Robert J. Burdette 413
At the Sign of the Cock Owen Seaman 414
Presto Furioso Owen Seaman 417
To Julia in Shooting Togs Owen Seaman 418
Farewell Bert Leston Taylor 419
Here is the Tale Anthony C. Deane Laman Blanchard 784
A Strike Among the Poets Unknown 785
Whatever Is, Is Right Laman Blanchard 786
Nothing Richard Porson 786
Dirge Unknown 787
O D V Unknown 788
A Man of Words Unknown 790
Similes Unknown 791
No! Thomas Hood 792
Faithless Sally Brown Thomas Hood 792
Tim Turpin Thomas Hood 795
Faithless Nelly Gray Thomas Hood 797
Sally Simpkin's Lament Thomas Hood 800
Death's Ramble Thomas Hood 801
Panegyric on the Ladies Unknown 803
Ambiguous Lines Unknown 804
Surnames James Smith 804
A Ternary of Littles, Upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady Robert Herrick 806
A Carman's Account of a Law Suit Sir David Lindesay 807
Out of Sight, Out of Mind Barnaby Googe 807
Nongtongpaw Charles Dibdin 808
Logical English Unknown 809
Logic Unknown 809
The Careful Penman Unknown 810
Questions with Answers Unknown 810
Conjugal Conjugations A. W. Bellaw 810
Love's Moods and Senses Unknown 812
The Siege of Belgrade Unknown 813 [Pgxxi]
The Happy Man Gilles MÉnage 814
The Bells Unknown 816
Takings Thomas Hood, Jr. 817
A Bachelor's Mono-Rhyme Charles Mackay 817
The Art of Bookkeeping Laman Blanchard 818
An Invitation to the Zoological Gardens Unknown 822
A Nocturnal Sketch Thomas Hood 823
Lovelilts Marion Hill 824
Jocosa Lyra Austin Dobson 824
To a Thesaurus Franklin P. Adams 825
The Future of the Classics Unknown 826
Cautionary Verses Theodore Hook 828
The War: A-Z John R. Edwards 829
Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon Unknown 830
To My Nose Alfred A. Forrester 832
A Polka Lyric Barclay Philips 832
A Catalectic Monody Unknown 833
Ode for a Social Meeting Oliver Wendell Holmes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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