The Humourous Poetry of the English Language
PREFACE.
MISCELLANEOUS.
NARRATIVE
SATIRICAL
- THE RABBLE: OR, WHO PAYS!
SAMUEL BUTLER.
- THE CHAMELEON. MATTHEW PRIOR.
- MERRY ANDREW. MATTHEW PRIOR.
- JACK AND JOAN. MATTHEW PRIOR.
- THE PROGRESS OF POETRY. DEAN SWIFT
- TWELVE ARTICLES. DEAN SWIFT.
- THE BEASTS' CONFESSION. DEAN
SWIFT
- A NEW SIMILE FOR THE LADIES. WITH USEFUL
ANNOTATIONS, DR. THOMAS SHERIDAN.
- ON A LAPDOG. JOHN GAY.
- THE RAZOR SELLER. PETER
PINDAR.
- THE SAILOR BOY AT PRAYERS.
PETER PINDAR.
- BIENSEANCE PETER PINDAR.
- THE PETIT MAITRE, AND THE MAN ON THE WHEEL
- KINGS AND COURTIERS. PETER
PINDAR
- PRAYING FOR RAIN. PETER
PINDAR
- APOLOGY FOR KINGS PETER
PINDAR
- MORAL.
- ODE TO THE DEVIL. PETER
PINDAR.
- THE KING OF SPAIN AND THE HORSE.
PETER PINDAR.
- THE TENDER HUSBAND. PETER
PINDAR
- THE SOLDIER AND THE VIRGIN MARY.
PETER PINDAR.
- A KING OF FRANCE AND THE FAIR LADY
PETER PINDAR
- THE EGGS.
- THE ASS AND HIS MASTER. FROM THE SPANISH OF
YRIARTE. G. H. DEVEREUX.
- THE LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED; OR, HYPOCRISY
DETECTED. WILLIAM COWPER.
- REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY
OF THE BOOKS. WILLIAM COWPER.
- HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER. ROBERT BURNS.
- EPITAPH ON HOLY WILLIE
- ADDRESS TO THE DEIL. ROBERT
BURNS.
- THE DEVIL'S WALK ON EARTH.
ROBERT SOUTHEY.
- CHURCH AND STATE. THOMAS
MOORE.
- LYING. THOMAS MOORE.
- THE MILLENNIUM. SUGGESTBD BY THE LATE WORK OF THE
KEVEKEND MR. IRVING “ON PROPHECY.” THOMAS MOORE.
- THE LITTLE GRAND LAMA. A FABLE FOR PRINCES ROYAL
THOMAS MOORE
- ETERNAL LONDON. THOMAS MOORE.
- OF FACTOTUM NED. THOMAS
MOORE.
- LETTERS FROM MISS BIDDY FUDGE AT PARIS TO MISS
DOROTHY—IN IRELAND THOMAS MOORE.
- THE LITERARY LADY. RICHARD
BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.
- NETLEY ABBEY. R. HARRIS RARHAM
- FAMILY POETRY. R. HARRIS
BARHAM
- THE SUNDAY QUESTION. THOMAS
HOOD.
- ODE TO RAE WILSON, ESQUIRE. THOMAS HOOD.
- DEATH'S RAMBLE. THOMAS HOOD.
- THE BACHELOR'S DREAM. THOMAS
HOOD.
- ON SAMUEL ROGERS. LORD
BYRON.
- MY PARTNER. W. MACKWORTH
PRAED.
- THE BELLE OF THE BALL. W.
MACKWORTH PRAED.
- SORROWS OF WERTHER. W.
MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
- THE YANKEE VOLUNTEERS. W.
MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
- COURTSHIP AND MATRIMONY. A POEM, IN TWO CANTOS.
PUNCH.
- CANTO THE SECOND.
- CONCERNING SISTERS-IN-LAW.
PUNCH. I.
- THE LOBSTERS. PUNCH.
- TO SONG-BIRDS ON A SUNDAY.
PUNCH.
- THE FIRST SENSIBLE VALENTINE. (ONE OF THE MOST
ASTONISHING FRUITS OF THE EMIGRATION MANIA.)
PUNCH.
- A SCENE ON THE AUSTRIAN FRONTIER.
PUNCH.
- ODE TO THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT ON HIS WONDERFUL
REAPPEARANCE. PUNCH.
- THE FEAST OF VEGETABLES, AND THE FLOW OF WATER.
PUNCH.
- KINDRED QUACKS. PUNCH.
- THE RAILWAY TRAVELER'S FAREWELL TO HIS FAMILY.
PUNCH.
- A LETTER AND AN ANSWER.
PUNCH.
- PAPA TO HIS HEIR, A FAST MINOR.
PUNCH.
- SELLING OFF AT THE OPERA HOUSE A POETICAL
CATALOGUE.
- WONDERS OF THE VICTORIAN AGE.
PUNCH.
- TO THE PORTRAIT OF “A GENTLEMAN,” IN THE
ATHENAEUM GALLERY. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
- MY AUNT. OLIVER WENDELL
HOLMES.
- COMIC MISERIES. JOHN G.
SAXE.
- IDEES NAPOLEONIENNES. WILLIAM
AYTOUN.
- THE LAY OF THE LOVER'S FRIEND
WILLIAM AYTOUN
PARODIES AND BURLESQUES
LINES
EPIGRAMMATIC
- EPIGRAMS OF BEN JONSON.
- TO BRAINHARDY.
- TO DOCTOR EMPIRIC.
- TO SIR ANNUAL FILTER.
- ON BANKS THE USURER.
- ON CHEVRIL THE LAWYER
- EPIGRAMATIC VERSES BY SAMUEL BUTLER.
- CRITICS.
- HYPOCRISY.
- POLISH.
- THE GODLY.
- PIETY.
- MARRIAGE.
- POETS.
- PUFFING.
- POLITICIANS.
- FEAR.
- THE LAW.
- THE SAME.
- THE SAME.
- CONFESSION.
- SMATTERERS
- BAD WRITERS.
- THE OPINIONATIVE.
- LANGUAGE OF THE LEARNED.
- GOOD WRITING.
- COURTIERS.
- INVENTIONS.
- LOGICIANS.
- LABORIOUS WRITERS.
- ON A CLUB OF SOTS.
- HOLLAND.
- EPIGRAMS OF EDMUND WALLEB.
- OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE DWARFS.
- EPIGRAMS OF MATTHEW PRIOR.
- THE FLIES.
- PHILLIS'S AGE.
- TO THE DUKE DE NOALLES.
- ON BISHOP ATTERBURY.
- FORMA BONUM FRAGILE.
- EARNING A DINNER.
- BIBO AND CHARON.
- THE PEDANT.
- EPIGRAMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. THE COUNTESS OF
MANCHESTER.
- TO AN ILL-FAVORED LADY. [IMITATED FROM MARTIAL.]
- TO A CAPBICIOUS FEIEND. [IMITATED FROM MARTIAL.]
- TO A ROGUE. [IMITATED FROM MARTIAL.]
- EPIGRAMS OF ALEXANDER POPE.
- TO A BLOCKHEAD.
- THE FOOL AND THE POET.
- EPIGRAMS OF DEAN SWIFT.
- TO A LADY, On hearing her praise her husband.
- THE CUDGELED HUSBAND.
- ON SEEING VERSES WRITTEN UPON WINDOWS AT INNS
- ON SEEING THE BUSTS OF NEWTON, LOCKE, AND OTHERS,
Placed by Queen Caroline in Richmond Hermitage.
- ON THE CHURCH'S DANGER.
- ON ONE DELACOURT'S COMPLIMENTING CARTHY ON HIS
POETRY.
- ON A USURER.
- TO MRS. BIDDY FLOYD; OR, THE RECEIPT TO FORM A
BEAUTY.
- THE REVERSE; OR, MRS. CLUDD.
- THE PLACE OF THE DAMNED.
- THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.
- PAULUS THE LAWYER. LINDSAY.
- EPIGRAMS BY THOMAS SHERIDAN.
- ON DEAN SWIFT'S PROPOSED HOSPITAL FOR LUNATICS
- TO A DUBLIN PUBLISHER.
- WHICH IS WHICH. BYRON.
- ON SOME LINES OF LOPEZ DE VEGA.
DR. JOHNSON.
- ON A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF BEAU MARSH. LORD
CHESTERFIELD
- ON SCOTLAND. CLEVELAND.
- EPIGRAMS OF PETER PINDAR.
- ON AN ARTIST.
- ON THE CONCLUSION OF HIS ODES
- THE LEX TALIONIS UPON BENJAMIN WEST
- BARRY'S ATTACK UPON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
- ON THE DEATH OF MR. HONE, R. A.
- ON GEORGE THE THIRD'S PATRONAGE OF BENJAMIN WEST.
- ANOTHER ON THE SAME.
- EPITAPH ON PETER STAGGS.
- TRAY'S EPITAPH.
- ON A STONE THROWN AT A VERY GREAT MAN, BUT WHICH
MISSED HIM.
- EPIGRAMS BY ROBERT BURNS.
- ON A CELEBRATED RULING ELDER.
- ON JOHN DOVE
- ON ANDREW TURNER.
- ON A SCOTCH COXCOMB
- ON GRIZZEL GRIM.
- ON A WAG IN MAUCHLINE.
- EPITAPH ON W—-.
- ON A SUICIDE.
- EPIGRAMS FROM THE GERMAN OF LESSING.
- A NICE POINT.
- TRUE NOBILITY.
- TO A LIAR.
- MENDAX.
- THE BAD-WIFE.
- THE DEAD MISER.
- ON FELL.
- THE BAD ORATOR.
- THE WISE CHILD.
- SPECIMEN OF THE LACONIC.
- CUPID AND MERCURY, OR THE BARGAIN.
- FRITZ.
- ON DORILIS.
- TO A SLOW WALKER AND QUICK EATER.
- ON TWO BEAUTIFUL ONE-EYED SISTERS
- THE PER-CONTRA, OR MATRIMONIAL BALANCE
- EPIGRAMS S. T. COLERIDGE.
- EXPECTORATION THE SECOND.
- TO A LADY, Offended by a sportive observation
that women have no souls.
- AVARO. [STOLEN FROM LESSING.]
- BEELZEBUB AND JOB.
- SENTIMENTAL.
- AN ETERNAL POEM.
- BAD POETS.
- TO MR. ALEXANDRE, THE VENTRILOQUIST.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.
- THE SWALLOWS. R. BRINSLEY
SHERIDAN.
- FRENCH AND ENGLISH. ERSKINE
- EPIGRAMS BY THOMAS MOORE.
- DIALOGUE BETWEEN A CATHOLIC DELEGATE AND HIS
ROYAL HIGHNESS DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.
- TO MISS ——-
- TO ——-
- UPON BEING OBLIGED TO LEAVE A PLEASANT PARTY FROM
THE WANT OF A PAIR OF BREECHES TO DRESS FOR DINNER IN.
- WHAT'S MY THOUGHT LIKE?
- FROM THE FRENCH.
- A JOKE VERSIFIED.
- THE SURPRISE.
- ON ——.
- ON A SQUINTING POETESS.
- ON A TUET-HUNTER.
- THE KISS.
- EPITAPH ON A WELL-KNOWN POET—(ROBERT SOUTHEY.)
- WRITTEN IN A YOUNG LADY'S COMMON-PLACE BOOK,
Called the “Book of Follies.”
- THE RABBINICAL ORIGIN OF WOMEN.
- ANACREONTIQUE.
- SPECULATION.
- ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT. REV.
SAMUEL WESLEY.
- ON THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE WHIG ASSOCIATES OP
THE PRINCE REGENT, AT NOT OBTAINING OFFICE.
CHARLES LAMB.
- TO PROFESSOR AIREY, On his marrying a beautiful
woman. SIDNEY SMITH
- ON LORD DUDLEY AND WARD.
SAMUEL ROGERS
- EPIGRAMS OF LORD BYRON.
- WINDSOR POETICS.
- ON A CARRIER WHO DIED OF DRUNKENNESS.
- EPIGRAMS OF BARHAM.
- NEW-MADE HONOR. [IMITATED FROM MARTIAL.]
- ANONYMOUS EPIGRAMS
- RECIPE FOR A MODERN BONNET.
- MY WIFE AND I
- WELLINGTON'S NOSE.
- THE SMOKER.
- EPIGRAMS BY THOMAS HOOD.
- EPIGRAMS BY W. SAVAGE LANDOR
- LYING IN STATE.
- EPIGRAMS FROM PUNCH.
- IRISH PARTICULAR.
- ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER
- DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
- BAS BLEU.
- TO A RICH YOUNG WIDOW.
- THE RAILWAY OF LIFE.
- A CONJUGAL CONUNDRUM.
- NUMBERS ALTERED.
- THE EMPTY BOTTLE. WILLIAM
AYTOUN
- THE DEATH OF DOCTOR MORRISON.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
- EPIGRAMS BY JOHN G. SAXE.
- ANOTHER.
- ON AN ILL-READ LAWYER.
- ON AN UGLY PERSON SITTING FOR A DAGUERREOTYPE
- WOMAN'S WILL.
- FAMILY QUARRELS.
- A REVOLUTIONARY HERO. JAMES
RUSSELL LOWELL
- EPIGRAMS OF HALPIN
- FEMININE ARITHMETIC.
- THE MUSHROOM HUNT.
- JUPITER AMANS. DEDICATED TO VICTOR HUGO.
LONDON LEADER
- THE ORATOR'S EPITAPH. LORD
BROUGHAM.
ECCENTRIC AND NONDESCRIPT.
ENIGMATIC
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