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The Humorous Poetry of the English Language

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Miscellaneous
  4. 4The Lisbon Packet. Byron
  5. 5Rings and Seals. Thomas Moore
  6. 6My Letters. R. Harris Barham
  7. 7Spring
  8. 8School and School-Fellows. W. Mackworth Praed
  9. 9The Vicar. W. Mackworth Praed
  10. 10Come Out, Love. N. P. Willis
  11. 11You Know If It Was You N. P. Willis
  12. 12To Helen in a Huff. N. P. Willis
  13. 13The Height of the Ridiculous. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  14. 14Narrative
  15. 15The Baffled Knight, or Lady’s Policy [A Very Favorite Ancient Balla…
  16. 16Julia. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  17. 17A Cock and Hen Story. Robert Southey
  18. 18Sir Rupert the Fearless. A Legend of Germany. R. Harris Barham
  19. 19Dame Fredegonde. William Aytous
  20. 20Satirical
  21. 21The Progress of Poetry. Dean Swift
  22. 22A New Simile for the Ladies. With Useful Annotations, Dr. Thomas Sh…
  23. 23Family Poetry. R. Harris Barham
  24. 24The Sunday Question. Thomas Hood
  25. 25Death’s Ramble. Thomas Hood
  26. 26On Samuel Rogers. Lord Byron
  27. 27My Partner. W. Mackworth Praed
  28. 28The Belle of the Ball. W. Mackworth Praed
  29. 29Sorrows of Werther. W. Makepeace Thackeray
  30. 30The Yankee Volunteers. W. Makepeace Thackeray
  31. 31Courtship and Matrimony. A Poem, in Two Cantos. Punch
  32. 32Concerning Sisters-in-Law. Punch. I.
  33. 33To Song-Birds on a Sunday. Punch
  34. 34The First Sensible Valentine. (One of the Most Astonishing Fruits o…
  35. 35A Scene on the Austrian Frontier. Punch
  36. 36Ode to the Great Sea-Serpent on His Wonderful Reappearance. Punch
  37. 37Kindred Quacks. Punch
  38. 38The Railway Traveler’s Farewell to His Family. Punch
  39. 39A Letter and an Answer. Punch
  40. 40Papa to His Heir, a Fast Minor. Punch
  41. 41Wonders of the Victorian Age. Punch
  42. 42To the Portrait of “A Gentleman,” in the Athenaeum Gallery. Oliver…
  43. 43My Aunt. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  44. 44Comic Miseries. John G. Saxe
  45. 45The Lay of the Lover’s Friend William Aytoun
  46. 46Parodies and Burlesques
  47. 47Ode on Science. Dean Swift
  48. 48A Description of a City Shower in Imitation Op Virgil’s Georgics. D…
  49. 49The Progress of Curiosity; or a Royal Visit to Whitbkead’s Brewery.…
  50. 50Inscription
  51. 51The Love Elegies of Abel Shufflebottom. Robert Southey
  52. 52Play-House Musings. A Burlesque Imitation of Coleridge — Rejected A…
  53. 53Drury’s Dirge. [By Lauba Matilda — Rejected Addresses.] Horace Smith
  54. 54What Is Life by “One of the Fancy.” Blackwood’s Magazine
  55. 55Fragments. [By a Free-Lover.] Blackwood’s Magazine, 1823
  56. 56Raising the Devil. A Legend of Cornelius Agrippa. R. Harris Barham
  57. 57An Ode to Be Performed on the Opening of the New College. R. Harris…
  58. 58Domestic Poems. Thomas Hood. I.
  59. 59A Theatrical Curiosity. Cruikshank’s Omnibus
  60. 60The Secret Sorrow. Punch
  61. 61Song for Punch Drinkers. After Schiller. Punch
  62. 62The Song of the Humbugged Husband. Punch
  63. 63Temperance Song. Punch. Air — Friend of My Soul
  64. 64Lines
  65. 65Madness. Punch
  66. 66Lines Written After a Battle. By an Assistant Surgeon of the Ninete…
  67. 67The Chemist to His Love. Punch
  68. 68A Ballad of Bedlam. Punch
  69. 69Stanzas to an Egg. [by a Spoon.] Punch
  70. 70A Fragment. Punch
  71. 71Eating Song. Punch
  72. 72The Sick Child. [By the Honobable Wilhelmina Skeggs.] Punch
  73. 73Monody on the Death of an Only Client. Punch
  74. 74Parody for a Reformed Parliament. Punch
  75. 75Drama for Every-Day Life. Ludgate Hill — A Mystery. Punch
  76. 76Jones at the Barber’s Shop. Punch
  77. 77The Sated One. [Impromptu After Christmas Dinner.] Punch
  78. 78“A Book in a Bustle.” a True Tale of the Warwick Assizes. By the Gh…
  79. 79Colloquy on a Cab-Stand. Adapted for the Boudoir. Punch
  80. 80The Song of Hiawatha. An English Criticism Punch
  81. 81The Biter Bit. William Aytoun
  82. 82The Battle of the Boulevard William Aytoun
  83. 83Puffs Poetical. William Aytoum
  84. 84Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  85. 85Evening. By a Tailor. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  86. 86Phaethon; or, the Amateur Coachman. John G. Saxx
  87. 87Epigrammatic
  88. 88Epigramatic Verses by Samuel Butler
  89. 89Epigrams of Edmund Walleb
  90. 90Epigrams of Matthew Prior
  91. 91Epigrams of Joseph Addison. The Countess of Manchester
  92. 92Epigrams of Alexander Pope. On Mrs. Tofts. (A Celebrated Opera Sing…
  93. 93Epigrams of Dean Swift. On Burning a Dull Poem
  94. 94Paulus the Lawyer. Lindsay
  95. 95Epigrams by Thomas Sheridan. On a Caricature
  96. 96Which Is Which. Byron
  97. 97On Some Lines of Lopez de Vega. Dr. Johnson
  98. 98On Scotland. Cleveland — Epigrams of Peter Pindar
  99. 99Epigrams by Robert Burns
  100. 100Epigrams From the German of Lessing
  101. 101Epigrams S. T. Coleridge
  102. 102To Mr. Alexandre, the Ventriloquist. Sir Walter Scott
  103. 103French and English. Erskine — Epigrams by Thomas Moore
  104. 104On Butler’s Monument. Rev. Samuel Wesley
  105. 105On the Disappointment of the Whig Associates Op the Prince Regent,…
  106. 106On Lord Dudley and Ward. Samuel Rogers — Epigrams of Lord Byron
  107. 107Epigrams of Barham. On the Windows of King’s College Remaining Boarded
  108. 108Epigrams by Thomas Hood. On the Art-Unions
  109. 109Epigrams by W. Savage Landor on Observing a Vulgar Name on the Plin…
  110. 110The Empty Bottle. William Aytoun
  111. 111Epigrams by John G. Saxe. On a Recent Classic Controversy
  112. 112A Revolutionary Hero. James Russell Lowell
  113. 113Epigrams of Halpin
  114. 114Eccentric and Nondescript
  115. 115Tonis AD Resto Mare. Anonymous
  116. 116Dic. Dean Swift
  117. 117Moll. Dean Swift
  118. 118A Gentle Echo on Woman. In the Doric Manner. Dean Swift
  119. 119To My Nose. Anonymous
  120. 120Roger and Dolly. Blackwood
  121. 121The Irishman. Blackwood
  122. 122A _cat_alectic Monody! Cruikshank’s Omnibus
  123. 123A New Song of New Similes. John Bay
  124. 124Reminiscences Op a Sentimentalist. Thomas Hood
  125. 125Faithless Nelly Gray. A Pathetic Ballad. Thomas Hood
  126. 126No! Thomas Hood
  127. 127Jacob Omnium’s Hoss a New Pallice Court Chant. W. Makepeace Thackeray
  128. 128The Ballad of Eliza Davis. W. Makepeace Thackeray
  129. 129The Lamentable Ballad of the Foundling of Shoreditch. W. Makepeace…
  130. 130The Crystal Palace. W. Makepeace Thackeray
  131. 131Letter
  132. 132A Letter
  133. 133The Candidate’s Creed. (Biglow Papers.) James Russell Lowell
  134. 134The Courtin’. James Russell Lowell
  135. 135A Song for a Catarrh. Punch
  136. 136Epitaph on a Candle. Punch
  137. 137Poetry on an Improved Principle. A Renconter With a Tea-Totaller. P…
  138. 138On a Rejected Nosegay, Offered by the Author to a Beautiful Young L…
  139. 139A Serenade. Punch
  140. 140An Invitation to the Zoological Gardens Punch
  141. 141The People and Their Palace. Improvised by a Fine Gentleman. Punch
  142. 142A “Swell’s” Homage to Mrs. Stowe Punch
  143. 143The Exclusive’s Broken Idol. Punch
  144. 144The Ticket of Leave. [As Sung by the Holder, Amid a Convivial Circl…
  145. 145A Polka Lyric. Barclay Phillips
  146. 146A Sunnit to the Big Ox
  147. 147Enigmatic

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