The Book of Humorous Verse

George H. Doran Company, 1920 - 962

Spis treści

• BANTER: 25
• PAGE: 29
• From a Full Heart A A Milne: 31
• Trust in Women: 36
• A Familiar Letter to Several Cor: 38
• Early Rising John G Saxe: 44
• The Truth About Horace Eugene Field: 50
• Cupid William Blake: 56
• School James Kenneth Stephen бо: 62
• The Secret Combination: 67
• A Plea for Trigamy Owen Seaman: 68
• A Vague Story Walter Parke: 74
• Homæopathic Soup Unknown: 76
• Report of an Adjudged Case William Cowper: 82
• The Sabine Farmers Serenade: 83
• The Lay of the Lovers Friend William E Aytoun: 88
• Nemesis J W Foley: 94
• Th Quest of the Purple Cow Hilda Johnson: 100
• The Friar of Orders Gray: 102
• The Origin of Ireland Unknown: 106
• The Courtin James Russell Lowell: 113
• Mis Smith Albert Bigelow Paine: 119
• Over the Way Mary Mapes Dodge: 125
• A Pin Ella Wheeler Wilcox: 132
• Wing Tee Wec J P Denison: 139
• PAGE: 143
• Tu Quoque: 147
• My Mistresss Boots: 153
• Noras: 159
• A Cosmopolitan Woman: 167
• The Retort: 174
• Oh My Geraldine: 180
• The Fair Millinger: 186
• The Constant Cannibal Maiden Wallace Irwin: 194
• LOVE AND COURTSHIP: 200
• The: 206
• H E Clarke: 222
• Miniver Cheevy: 229
• PostImpressionism: 235
• The Musical: 249
• To the Terrestrial Globe: 256
• A Simile: 262
• The Learned Negro: 274
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan: 278
• Rodney Blake: 291
• John Wolcot: 298
• Robert Southey: 307
• Frederic E Weatherly: 313
• John Philips: 320
• Harrison Robertson: 326
• Matthew Prior: 332
• Pessimism: 338
• The Annuity George Outram: 350
• Fin de Siecle Unknown: 357
• The Fool and the Poet Alexander Pope: 363
• On a Full Length Portrait: 369
• Imitation Anthony C Deane: 375
• A Little Swirl of Vers Libre Thomas R Ybarra: 381
• The Rejected National Hymns Robert H Newell: 389
• 1: 390
• Never Forget Your Parents Franklin P Adams: 395
• The Lawyers Invocation to Spring Henry Howard Brouriell: 404
• Select Passages from a Coming: 410
• Presto Furioso: 417
• The Willows: 423
• Angelo Orders His Dinner Bayard Taylor: 429
• Imitation of Walt Whitman Unknown: 436
• Our Traveler: 445
• The Bitter: 453
• Nephelidia: 459
• Wordsworthian Reminiscence Unknown: 470
• Whenceness of the Which: 476
• The Modern Hiawatha: 482
• The Day is Done: 490
• A Portrait: 496
• Extracts from the Rubaiyat: 512
• Diversions of the ReEcho Club Carolyn Wells: 521
• Song of the Springtide: 527
• How the Daughters Come Down: 533
• Only Seven: 543
• The Wofile New Ballad of Jane: 552
• On the Death of a Favorite Cat Thomas Grav: 558
• The Diverting History of John: 564
• Paddy ORafther: 571
• The Jester Condemned to Death Horace Smith: 580
• The Jackdaw of Rheims: 586
• My Aunts Spectre: 600
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning: 611
• Robinson Crusoes Story: 617
• The Pilgrims and the Peas John Wolcot: 623
• That Gentleman from: 629
• Ferdinando and Elvira W S Gilbert: 635
• The Story of Prince Agib W S Gilbert: 641
• Dighton is Engaged Gelett Burgess: 647
• Jim Bret Harte: 653
• Jim Bludso John Hay: 661
• Hans Breitmanns Party Charles Godfrey Leland: 668
• The Romance of the Carpet Robert J Burdette: 674
• A Sailors Yarn James Jeffrey Roche: 680
• Skipper Iresons Ride John Greenleaf Whittier: 688
• A Great Fight Robert H Newell: 697
• The Laird o Cockpen Lady Nairne: 703
• The Ahkoond of Swat George Thomas Lanigan: 710
• Ould Doctor Mack Alfred Perceval Graves: 717
• Address to the Toothache Robert Burns: 724
• John Barleycorn Robert Burns: 730
• Ode to a Bobtailed Cat Unknown: 736
• The Irishman and the Lady William Maginn: 742
• A Gentle Echo on Woman: 752
• The Zealless Xylographer: 759
• An Epitaph: 765
• The Cosmic: 771
• Half Hours with the Classics H J DeBurgh: 780
• Whatever Is Is Right: 786
• Faithless Nelly Gray: 799
• A Ternary of Littles Upon: 806
• Loves Moods and Senses: 812
• The Happy Man Gilles Ménage: 814
• Gardens Unknown: 822
• Cautionary Verses Theodore Hook: 828
• The Jovial Priests Confession Leign Hunt: 834
• NONSENSE: 841
• Mr Finneys Turnip Unknown: 847
• My Dream Unknown: 853
• The YonghyBonghyBo Edward Lear: 859
• The Pobble Who Has no Toes Edward Lear: 865
• Humpty Dumptys Recitation Lewis Carroll: 872
• Uffia: 877
• NATURAL HISTORY: 887
• Of Baiting the Lion: 893
• The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll: 900
• The Viper: 906
• A Darwinian Ballad: 913
• The Young Gazelle: 919
• A Visit From St Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore: 935
• Leedle Yawcob Strauss Charles Follen Adams: 941
• Bunches of Grapes Walter Ramal: 947
• A Ballade of BalladeMongers Augustus M Moore: 955
• Nancy Bell W S Gilbert: 961
• Unknown: 977
• BATHOS: 978
• Mavrone Arthur Guiterman 378: 981
• 812: 984
• 632: 986

Popularne fragmenty

Strona 568 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay ; And there he threw the Wash about, On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton, his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. " Stop, stop, John Gilpin ! — Here's the house !' They all at once did cry ; " The dinner waits, and we are tired :" — Said Gilpin—

Strona 383 - That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.

Strona 583 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.

Strona 485 - You are old, father William" the young man said, " And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head — Do you think, at your age, it is right ? " "In my youth," father William replied to his son, " I feared it might injure the brain; But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.

Strona 688 - Body of turkey, head of owl, Wings a-droop like a rained-on fowl, Feathered and ruffled in every part, Skipper Ireson stood in the cart. Scores of women, old and young, Strong of muscle, and glib of tongue, Pushed and pulled up the rocky lane, Shouting and singing the shrill refrain: "Here's Flud Oirson, fur his horrd horrt Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o...

Strona 580 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, In hub, tire, felloe, in spring, or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace — lurking still...

Strona 581 - Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he 'put her through.

Strona 567 - The wind did blow, the cloak did fly, Like streamer long and gay, Till loop and button failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung; A bottle swinging at each side, As hath been said or sung. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul cried out, "Well done!

Strona 869 - He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood. The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood. And burbled as it came!

Strona 565 - I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. " I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the Calender Will lend his horse to go.

Informacje bibliograficzne

• Tytuł: The Book of Humorous Verse; The Book of Humorous Verse, Carolyn Wells
• Opracowanie: Carolyn Wells
• Wydawca: George H. Doran Company, 1920
• W formie oryginalnej: Uniwersytet Michigan
• W formie cyfrowej: 4 Mar 2008
• Liczba stron: 962