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A Nonsense Anthology

by Carolyn Wells

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Dedication — Introduction
  3. 3Jabberwocky
  4. 4Mors Iabrochii
  5. 5The Nyum-Nyum
  6. 6Uffia
  7. 7Spirk Troll-Derisive
  8. 8The Whango Tree
  9. 9Sing for the Garish Eye
  10. 10The Cruise of the “P.C.”
  11. 11To Marie
  12. 12Lunar Stanzas
  13. 13Nonsense
  14. 14Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House
  15. 15The Ocean Wanderer
  16. 16She’s All My Fancy Painted Him
  17. 17My Recollectest Thoughts
  18. 18Father William
  19. 19In the Gloaming
  20. 20Ballad of Bedlam
  21. 21’Tis Sweet to Roam
  22. 22Hymn to the Sunrise
  23. 23The Moon Is Up
  24. 24’Tis Midnight
  25. 25Uprising See the Fitful Lark
  26. 26Like to the Thundering Tone
  27. 27My Dream
  28. 28My Home
  29. 29In Immemoriam
  30. 30The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
  31. 31Darwinity
  32. 32Song of the Screw
  33. 33Moorlands of the Not
  34. 34Metaphysics
  35. 35Abstrosophy
  36. 36Abstemia
  37. 37Psycholophon
  38. 38Timon of Archimedes
  39. 39Alone
  40. 40Lines by a Medium
  41. 41Transcendentalism
  42. 42Indifference
  43. 43Heart-Foam — Cossimbazar
  44. 44The Personified Sentimental
  45. 45A Classic Ode
  46. 46Where Avalanches Wail
  47. 47Blue Moonshine
  48. 48Nonsense
  49. 49Superior Nonsense Verses
  50. 50When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas
  51. 51Lines by a Person of Quality
  52. 52Frangipanni
  53. 53Lines by a Fond Lover
  54. 54Forcing a Way
  55. 55Thy Heart
  56. 56A Love-Song by a Lunatic
  57. 57The Parterre
  58. 58To Mollidusta
  59. 59John Jones
  60. 60The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
  61. 61A Ballade of the Nurserie
  62. 62A Ballad of High Endeavor
  63. 63The Lugubrious Whing-Whang
  64. 64Oh! Weary Mother
  65. 65Swiss Air
  66. 66The Bulbul
  67. 67Ballad
  68. 68Oh, My Geraldine
  69. 69Buz, Quoth the Blue Fly
  70. 70A Song on King William III
  71. 71There Was a Monkey
  72. 72The Guinea Pig
  73. 73Three Children
  74. 74If — A Riddle
  75. 75Three Jovial Huntsmen
  76. 76Three Acres of Land
  77. 77Master and Man
  78. 78Hyder Iddle — King Arthur
  79. 79In the Dumps
  80. 80Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee
  81. 81Martin to His Man
  82. 82The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
  83. 83The Pobble Who Has No Toes
  84. 84The Jumblies
  85. 85Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly
  86. 86Lines to a Young Lady
  87. 87Ways and Means
  88. 88The Walrus and the Carpenter
  89. 89The Hunting of the Snark
  90. 90Sylvie and Bruno
  91. 91Gentle Alice Brown
  92. 92The Story of Prince Agib
  93. 93Ferdinando and Elvira, or the Gentle Pieman
  94. 94General John
  95. 95Little Billee
  96. 96The Wreck of the “Julie Plante”
  97. 97The Shipwreck
  98. 98A Sailor’s Yarn
  99. 99The Walloping Window-Blind
  100. 100The Rollicking Mastodon
  101. 101The Silver Question
  102. 102The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting
  103. 103Faithless Nelly Gray
  104. 104The Elderly Gentleman
  105. 105Malum Opus
  106. 106Æstivation
  107. 107A Holiday Task
  108. 108Puer Ex Jersey
  109. 109The Little Peach
  110. 110Ye Laye of Ye Woodpeckore
  111. 111Collusion Between a Alegaiter and a Water-Snaik
  112. 112Odd to a Krokis
  113. 113Some Verses to Snaix
  114. 114A Great Man
  115. 115An Elegy
  116. 116Parson Gray
  117. 117An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
  118. 118The Wonderful Old Man
  119. 119A Chronicle
  120. 120On the Oxford Carrier
  121. 121Nephelidia
  122. 122Companions
  123. 123The Cock and the Bull
  124. 124Lovers and a Reflection
  125. 125An Imitation of Wordsworth
  126. 126The Famous Ballad of the Jubilee Cup
  127. 127A Song of Impossibilities
  128. 128Trust in Women
  129. 129Here Is the Tale
  130. 130The Auld Wife
  131. 131Not I
  132. 132Minnie and Winnie
  133. 133The Mayor of Scuttleton
  134. 134The Purple Cow
  135. 135The Invisible Bridge — The Lazy Roof
  136. 136My Feet — The Hen
  137. 137The Cow
  138. 138The Chimpanzee
  139. 139The Hippopotamus
  140. 140The Platypus
  141. 141Some Geese
  142. 142The Flamingo
  143. 143Kindness to Animals
  144. 144Sage Counsel
  145. 145Of Baiting the Lion
  146. 146The Frog
  147. 147The Yak
  148. 148The Python
  149. 149The Bison
  150. 150The Panther
  151. 151The Monkey’s Glue
  152. 152There Was a Frog
  153. 153The Bloated Biggaboon
  154. 154Wild Flowers · Timid Hortense · Her Polka Dots · Her Dairy — Turvey…
  155. 155What the Prince of I Dreamt
  156. 156The Dinkey-Bird
  157. 157The Man in the Moon
  158. 158The Story of the Wild Huntsman
  159. 159The Story of Pyramid Thothmes
  160. 160The Story of Cruel Psamtek
  161. 161The Cumberbunce
  162. 162The Ahkond of Swat
  163. 163A Threnody
  164. 164Dirge of the Moolla of Kotal
  165. 165Russian and Turk
  166. 166Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon
  167. 167Cobbe’s Prophecies
  168. 168An Unsuspected Fact
  169. 169The Sorrows of Werther
  170. 170Nonsense Verses
  171. 171The Noble Tuck-Man
  172. 172The Pessimist
  173. 173The Modern Hiawatha
  174. 174On the Road
  175. 175Uncle Simon and Uncle Jim
  176. 176Poor Dear Grandpapa
  177. 177The Sea-Serpent
  178. 178Melancholia
  179. 179The Monkey’s Wedding
  180. 180Mr. Finney’s Turnip
  181. 181The Sun · The Autumn Leaves · In the Night · Poor Brother · The Boy…
  182. 182Fin de Siècle · Mary Jane — Tender-Heartedness
  183. 183Impetuous Samuel — Misfortunes Never Come Singly
  184. 184Aunt Eliza · Susan — Baby and Mary
  185. 185The Sunbeam
  186. 186Little Willie · Mary Ames — Muddled Metaphors
  187. 187Villon’s Straight Tip to All Cross Coves
  188. 188Ode to the Human Heart
  189. 189Imericks
  190. 190Vers Nonsensiques

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