Chapter XXVII: Part II (9)

|page| A brace of sinners, for no good 621 A brow austere, a circumspective eye 280 A captain bold from Halifax who dwelt in country quarters 702 A cat I sing, of famous memory 833 A country curate visiting his flock 287 A district school, not far away 128 A fellow in a market town 297 A fellow near Kentuck's clime 494 A fig for St. Denis of France 101 A friend of mine was married to a scold 264 A hindoo died--a happy thing to do 281 A knight and a lady once met in a grove 270 A little peach in the orchard grew 931 A little saint best fits a little shrine 806 A lively young turtle lived down by the banks 923 A lovely young lady I mourn in my rhymes 366 A maiden once, of certain age 169 A man of words and not of deeds 790 A man said to the universe 248 A man sat on a rock and sought 83 A Persian penman named Aziz 810 A Poet's Cat, sedate and grave 910 A quiet home had Parson Gray 741 A rollicking Mastodon lived in Spain 853 A Russian sailed over the blue Black Sea 374 A shabby fellow chanced one day to meet 287 A soldier and a sailor 179 A soldier of the Russians 90 A speech, both pithy and concise 61 A street there is in Paris famous 714 A supercilious nabob of the East 260 A tailor, a man of an upright dealing 322 A traveller wended the wilds among 576 A well there is in the west country 584 A whale of great porosity 916 A woman is like to--but stay 118 A xylographer started to cross the sea 759 A young man once was sitting 394 Across the sands of Syria 888 Ah! Matt, old age has brought to me 362 Ah, Night! blind germ of days to be 484 Ah! poor intoxicated little knave 734 Ah, those hours when by-gone sages 779 Ah! who has seen the mailed lobster rise 882 Ah! why those piteous sounds of woe 449 Alas, unhappy land; ill-fated spot 712 All day she hurried to get through 119 All smatterers are more brisk and pert 365 Alone I sit at eventide 53 An ancient story I'll tell you anon 554 An Austrian Archduke, assaulted and assailed 829 An Austrian army, awfully array'd 813 An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this week 552 And so our royal relative was dead! 737 And this reft house is that the which he built 407 "Are women fair?" Ay, wondrous fair to see, too 189 As a friend to the children commend me the yak 906 As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping 130 As I was walkin' the jungle round, a-killin' of tigers an' time 426 As long as I dwell on some stupendous 60 As wet as a fish--as dry as a bone 791 Ask me no more: I've had enough Chablis 534 At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper 635 At morning's call 374 Baby's brain is tired of thinking 240 Back in the years when Phlagstaff, the Dane, was monarch 387 Barney McGee, there's no end of good luck in you 721 Basking in peace in the warm spring sun 674 Be brave, faint heart 445 Be kind and tender to the Frog 907 Be kind to the panther! for when thou wert young 890 Beauties, have ye seen this toy 211 Before a Turkish town 96 Behave yoursel' before folk 174 Ben Battle was a soldier bold 797 Ben Bluff was a whaler, and many a day 619 Beside a Primrose 'broider'd Rill 139 Between Adam and me the great difference is 367 Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose 82 Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides 784 "Bon jour, Madame Sans Souci 950 Bright breaks the warrior o'er the ocean wave 879 Brisk methinks I am, and fine 772 "Bunches of grapes," says Timothy 947 By the side of a murmuring stream an elderly gentleman sat 665 Bye Baby Bunting 324 Calm and implacable 375 "Can you spare a Threepenny bit 901 Careless rhymer, it is true 185 Celestine Silvousplait Justine de Mouton Rosalie 51 Charm is a woman's strongest arm 247 Chilly Dovebber with his boadigg blast 747 Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast 909 "Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life 367 Come! fill a fresh bumper,--for why should we go 833 Come fleetly, come fleetly, my hooksbadar 843 "Come here, my boy; hould up your head 103 Come hither, my heart's darling 454 Come into the Whenceness Which 476 "Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again 676 Come mighty Must! 376 Comrades, you may pass the rosy. With permission of the chair 537 De Hen-roost Man he'll preach about Paul 247 Dear maid, let me speak 810 Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold 269 Dear Thomas, didst thou never pop 262 Delmonico's is where he dines 267 Der Kaiser of dis Faterland 291 Der noble Ritter Hugo 669 Did you hear of the Widow Malone 126 Dighton is engaged! Think of it and tremble! 647 Do not worry if I scurry from the grill room in a hurry 67 Do you know why the rabbits are caught in the snare 214 Do you think I'll marry a woman 817 Doe, doe! 746 Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaäy? 354 Down in the silent hallway 889 Easy is the triolet 782 Echo, tell me, while I wander 751 Even is come; and from the dark Park, hark 823 Everywhere, everywhere, following me 430 Exquisite wines and comestibles 316 Far off in the waste of desert sand 851 Far, oh, far is the Mango island 194 "Farewell!" Another gloomy word 419 Felis Infelix Cat unfortunate 736 First there's the Bible 769 For his religion it was fit 271 From Arranmore the weary miles I've come 378 From his brimstone bed at break of day 298 From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through 459 From the madding crowd they stand apart 227 From the tragic-est novels at Mudie's 144 "Gentle, modest little flower 28 "Gimme my scarlet tie," 334 Gin a body meet a body 483 Gineral B. is a sensible man 292 Given a roof, and a taste for rations 311 Go and catch a falling star 330 Go 'way, fiddle; folks is tired o' hearin' you a-squawkin' 672 "God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender! 368 "God bless the man who first invented sleep!" 44 God makes sech nights, all white an' still 110 Good Luck is the gayest of all gay girls 334 Good people all, of every sort 764 Good people all, with one accord 740 Good reader! if you e'er have seen 444 "Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom 369 Half a bar, half a bar 528 Hamelin Town's in Brunswick 603 Handel, Bendel, Mendelssohn 772 Hans Breitmann gife a barty 668 Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife 316 Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay 580 He cannot be complete in aught 367 He dropt a tear on Susan's bier 157 He dwelt among "Apartments let," 491 He girded on his shining sword 100 He is too weet a melancholy carle 496 He killed the noble Mudjokivis 482 He lived in a cave by the seas 331 He stood on his head by the wild seashore 75 He thought he saw an Elephant 874 He took her fancy when he came 817 He was the chairman of the Guild 244 Hear what Highland Nora said 159 Her heart she locked fast in her breast 209 Her little feet! Beneath us ranged the sea 59 Her washing ended with the day 494 Here lies my wife: here let her lie! 368 Here lieth one, who did not most truly prove 780 Here's to the town of New Haven 949 Hi! Just you drop that! Stop, I say! 460 His eye was stern and wild--his cheek was pale and cold as clay 450 History, and nature, too, repeat themselves, they say 360 How do the daughters 533 "How does the water 743 How hard, when those who do not wish 818 How old may Philis be, you ask 332 How uneasy is his life 344 Hyder iddle didle dell 879 Hypocrisy will serve as well 365 I am 900 I am a friar of orders gray 282 I am an ancient Jest! 72 I come from good old Boston 949 I am a hearthrug 377 I am a lone, unfeathered chick 903 I am numb from world-pain 380 I, Angelo, obese, black-garmented 428 I asked of Echo, t'other day 750 I cannot praise the doctor's eyes 368 I cannot sing the old songs 413 I cannot tell you how I love 235 I couldn't help weeping with delight 521 I count it true which sages teach 413 I devise to end my days--in a tavern drinking 834 I du believe in Freedom's cause 294 I do confess, in many a sigh 86 I don't go much on religion 657 I don't know any greatest treat 180 I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week 853 I dwells in the Hearth, and I breathes in the Hair 763 I gaed to spend a week in Fife 350 I hae laid a herring in saut 216 I haf von funny leedle poy 940 I have a bookcase, which is what 40 I have a copper penny and another copper penny 809 I have felt the thrill of passion in the poet's mystic book 32 I have found out a gig-gig-gift for my fuf-fuf-fair 822 I have made me an end of the moods of maidens 511 I have watch'd thee with rapture, and dwelt on thy charms 456 I knew an old wife lean and poor 611 I know not of what we ponder'd 63 I know when milk does flies contain 343 I lately lived in quiet ease 218 I lay i' the bosom of the sun 407 I love my lady with a deep purple love 383 I love thee, Mary, and thou lovest me 206 "I love you, my lord!" 120 I marvell'd why a simple child 543 I may as well 685 I never rear'd a young gazelle 544 I never saw a Purple Cow 948 "I never saw a purple cow 515 I recollect a nurse call'd Ann 156 I remember, I remember 107 I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James 650 I said, "This horse, sir, will you shoe?" 809 I sat one night beside a blue-eyed girl 207 I saw a certain sailorman who sat beside the sea 70 I saw a peacock with a fiery tail 804 I sent for Ratcliffe; was so ill 365 I sent my love a parcel 262 I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau 212 I sometimes think I'd rather crow 891 I strolled beside the shining sea 844 I tell thee, Dick, where I have been 704 I walked and came upon a picket fence 470 I was in Margate last July. I walk'd upon the pier 558 I wonder what your thoughts are, little cloud 134 I would all womankind were dead 88 I would flee from the city's rule and law 883 I would that all men my hard case might know 397 I wrote some lines once on a time 38 I wus mighty good-lookin' when I was young 129 I yearn to bite on a Colloid 91 I'd Never Dare to Walk across 855 I'd read three hours. Both notes and text 142 If all be true that I do think 364 If all the harm women have done 248 If all the land were apple-pie 951 If all the trees in all the woods were men 238 If down his throat a man should choose 844 If e'er my rhyming be at fault 55 If ever there lived a Yankee lad 690 If I go to see the play 48 If I should die to-night 489 If I were thine, I'd fail not of endeavour 345 If I were you, when ladies at the play, Sir 146 If, in the month of dark December 80 If life were never bitter 436 If the man who turnips cries 949 If there is a vile, pernicious 60 If thou wouldst stand on Etna's burning brow 445 If we square a lump of pemmican 880 If you become a nun, dear 206 I'll sing you a song, not very long 275 I'll tell thee everything I can 870 I'm taught p-l-o-u-g-h 761 I'm thankful that the sun and moon 882 "Immortal Newton never spoke 369 In a church which is furnish'd with mullion and gable, I 280 In a Devonshire lane as I trotted along 266 In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow 368 In an ocean, 'way out yonder 929 In Ballades things always contrive to get lost 441 In Broad Street Buildings on a winter night 563 In candent ire the solar splendour flames 849 In days of peace my fellow-men 31 In early youth, as you may guess 918 In form and feature, face and limb 108 In heaven a spirit doth dwell 472 In his chamber, weak and dying 785 In Köln, a town of monks and bones 363 In letters large upon the frame 347 In London I never know what I'd be at 265 In our hearts is the Great One of Avon 824 In the age that was golden, the halcyon time 338 In the "Foursome" some would fain 222 In the lonesome latter years 429 In these days of indigestion 77 "In winter, when the fields are white 872 Inglorious friend! most confident I am 734 Interred beneath this marble stone 765 Is moss-prankt dells which the sunbeams flatter 372 It is told, on Buddhi-theosophic schools 92 It is very aggravating 50 It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day 601 It may be so--perhaps thou hast 236 It once might have been, once only 339 It was a millinger most gay 186 It was a Moorish maiden was sitting by the well 196 It was a robber's daughter, and her name was Alice Brown 639 It was a summer's evening 252 It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side 583 It was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine 904 It was a hairy oubit, sac proud he crept alabg 330 It was in a pleasant deepô, sequestered from the rain 613 It was many and many a year ago 532 It ripen'd by the river banks 444 It worries me to beat the band 137 Its eyes are gray 121 I've been trying to fashion a wifely ideal 68 Jacob! I do not like to see thy nose 914 Jem writes his verses with more speed 363 Jim Bowker, he said, if he'd had a fair show 357 John Alcohol, my foe, John 529 John Bull for pastime took a prance 808 John Gilpin was a citizen of credit and renown 564 John Grumlie Swore by the light o' the moon 326 Just take a trifling handful, O philosopher 314 Kitty wants to write! Kitty intellectual! 646 Knitting is the maid o' the kitchen, Milly 220 Knows he that never took a pinch 832 La Galisse now I wish to touch 814 Lady Clara Vere de Vere! 412 Lady, I loved you all last year 327 Lady mine, most fair thou art 221 Lady, very fair are you 184 Lanty was in love, you see 208 Last year I trod these fields with Di 155 Lazy-bones, lazy-bones, wake up and peep! 848 Lest it may more quarrels breed 279 Life and the Universe show spontaneity 315 Life is a gift that most of us hold dear 357 Life would be an easy matter 57 Lilies, lilies, white lilies and yellow 379 Like to the thundering tone of unspoke speeches 848 Little bopeepals 324 Little I ask; my wants are few 238 Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay 934 Little Penelope Socrates 284 Lives there a man with a soul so dead 786 Long by the willow-trees 439 Lord Erskine, at women presuming to rail 366 Malbrouck, the prince of commanders 28 Man is for woman made 41 Many a long, long year ago 664 Margarita first possess'd 176 Marry, I lent my gossip my mare, to fetch home coals 807 Mary had a little lamb 506 Matilda Maud Mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin 395 May the Babylonish curse 726 Men, Dying, make their wills, but wives 362 Men once were surnamed for their shape or estate 804 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam 498 Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn 229 Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa! 95 Miss Flora McFlimsey, of Madison Square 148 Mr. Finney had a turnip 847 My brother Jack was nine in May 390 My coachman, in the moonlight there 359 My curse upon you venom'd stang 724 My dear young friend, whose shining wit 42 My feet, they haul me Round the House 855 My Heart will break--I'm sure it will 183 My lank limp lily, my long lithe lily 510 My little dears, who learn to read, pray early, learn to shun 828 My Love has sicklied unto Loath 410 My Madeline! my Madeline! 773 My passion is as mustard strong 754 My pipe is lit, my grog is mixed 342 My temples throb, my pulses boil 49 My William was a soldier, and he says to me, says he 598 Mysterious Nothing! how shall I define 786 Nay, I cannot come into the garden just now 188 "Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? 249 Night saw the crew like pedlars with their packs 841 No fault in women, to refuse 166 No longer, O scholars, shall Platus 826 No sun--no moon! 792 No usual words can bear the woe I feel 379 Nothing to do but work 358 Now Jake looked up--it was time to sup, and the buckets was yet to fill 421 Now the Widow Mcgee 165 O cool in the summer is salad 436 "O Crikey, Bill!" she ses to me, she ses 400 O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! 781 O, if my love offended me 184 O lady wake!--the azure moon 886 O mickle yeuks the keckle doup 384 O my earliest love, who, ere I number'd 116 O nymph with the nicest of noses 544 O precious code, volume, tome 825 O reverend sir, I do declare 195 O say, have you seen at the willows so green 921 O Season supposed of all free flowers 527 O the quietest home on earth had I 720 O thou wha in the heavens dost dwell 272 O what harper could worthily harp it 64 O'er the men of Ethiopia she would pour her cornucopia 160 Of all life's plagues I recommend to no man 76 Of all the girls that are so smart 182 Of all the mismated pairs ever created 480 Of all the men one meets about 370 Of all the rides since the birth of time 688 Of all the wimming doubly blest 241 Of priests we can offer a charmin' variety 719 Oh, but she was dark and shrill 509 Oh, dewy was the morning, upon the first of May 949 Oh, I have been North, and I have been South, and the East hath seen me pass 403 Oh! I have loved thee fondly, ever 732 Oh, I know a certain woman who is reckoned with the good 132 Oh, I used to sing a song 768 Oh, I want to win me hame 385 Oh listen, little children, to a proper little song 937 Oh, many have told of the monkeys of old 913 Oh, Mary had a little lamb, regarding whose cuticular 477 Oh, my Geraldine 180 Oh, sing a song of phosphates 324 Oh, solitude thou wonder-working fay 457 Oh, tell me have you ever seen a red, long-leg'd Flamingo? 894 Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize! 851 Oh, the days were ever shiny 204 Oh, the fisherman is a happy wight! 81 Oh, the Roman was a rogue 753 "Oh, 'tis time I should talk to your mother 181 Oh, 'twas O'Nolan M'Figg 700 Oh, what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes! 26 "Oh! what is that comes gliding in 800 Oh, what's the way to Arcady? 201 Oh, Wing Tee Wee 139 Oh, would that working I might shun 47 Oh, yes, we've be'n fixin' some sence we sold that piece o' groun' 192 Oh! young Lochinvar has come out of the West 381 Old Grimes is dead; that good old man 766 Old man never had much to say 678 Old Nick, who taught the village school 174 On wan dark night on Lac St. Pierre 662 On me he shall ne'er put a ring 191 On the Coast of Goromandel 859 On the downtown side of an uptown street 79 On the eighth day of March it was, some people say 58 One day the dreary old King of death 801 One evening while reclining 268 One morning when Spring was in her teens 188 One of the kings of Scanderoon 578 One stormy morn I chanced to meet 123 One, who is not, we see; but one, whom we see not, is 458 Or ever a lick of Art was done 383 Out of the clothes that cover me 471 Out on the margin of moonshine land 858 Out rode from his wild, dark castle 49 Out upon it, I have loved 218 Over the way, over the way 125 Paddy, in want of a dinner one day 571 Paddy McCabe was dying one day 307 Peerless yet hapless maid of Q! 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 Æstivation _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 _François 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 Début, 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 Siècle _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 Ménage_ 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 Zoölogical 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 à la Mode _Unknown_ 509 Nursery Song in Pidgin English _Unknown_ 530