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The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe

The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe

by James Parton

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Editor
Parton, James, 1822-1891
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Rose Koven, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Humorous poetry, American
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6652
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Release Date
October 1, 2004
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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE HUMOROUS POETRY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FROM CHAUCER TO SAXE. — PREFACE.
  2. 2.INDEX. — MISCELLANEOUS. — ECCENTRIC AND NONDESCRIPT.
  3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. 4.MISCELLANEOUS. — TO CHLOE. — TO A FLY, — MAN MAY BE HAPPY. PETER PINDAR. — ADDRESS TO THE TOOTHACHE. — THE PIG. — SNUFF. ROBERT SOUTHEY. — A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO. CHARLES LAMB. — WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS.
  5. 5.THE LISBON PACKET. BYRON. — TO FANNY. THOMAS MOORE — YOUNG JESSICA. THOMAS MOORE.
  6. 6.RINGS AND SEALS. THOMAS MOORE. — NETS AND CAGES. THOMAS MOORE. — SALAD. SYDNEY SMITH.
  7. 7.MY LETTERS. R. HARRIS BARHAM. — THE POPLAR. R. HARRIS BARHAM.
  8. 8.SPRING. — ODE.
  9. 9.SCHOOL AND SCHOOL-FELLOWS. W. MACKWORTH PRAED.
  10. 10.THE VICAR. W. MACKWORTH PRAED — THE BACHELOR'S CANE-BOTTOMED CHAIR. W. M. THACKERAY — STANZAS TO PALE ALE. PUNCH. — "CHILDREN MUST BE PAID FOR." PUNCH. — TO THE LADY IN THE CHEMISETTE WITH BLACK BUTTONS. N. P. WILLIS.
  11. 11.COME OUT, LOVE. N. P. WILLIS. — THE WHITE CHIP HAT. N. P. WILLIS.
  12. 12.YOU KNOW IF IT WAS YOU N. P. WILLIS. — THE DECLARATION. N. P. WILLIS. — LOVE IN A COTTAGE. N. P. WILLIS.
  13. 13.TO HELEN IN A HUFF. N. P. WILLIS
  14. 14.THE HEIGHT OF THE RIDICULOUS. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. — THE BRIEFLESS BARRISTER. A BALLAD. JOHN G. SAXE. — VENUS OF THE NEEDLE. — NARRATIVE
  15. 15.TAKE THY OLD CLOAK ABOUT THEE [OLD BALLAD, QUOTED BY SHAKSPEARE, IN OTHELLO.] PERCY RELIQUES — KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT. [AN OLD ENGLISH BALLAD—LONG VERY POPULAR.] PERCY RELIQUES
  16. 16.THE BAFFLED KNIGHT, OR LADY'S POLICY [A VERY FAVORITE ANCIENT BALLAD.] PERCY RELIQUES — TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD. A TALE. MATTHEW PRIOR. — FLATTERY. A FABLE. SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS. — THE PIG AND MAGPIE. PETER PINDAR. — ADVICE TO YOUNG WOMEN, OR, THE ROSE AND STRAWBERRY. PETER PINDAR — ECONOMY. PETER PINDAR. — THE JEWESS AND HER SON — THE COUNTBY LASSES. PETER PINDAR. — A STORY. — THE PILGRIMS AND THE PEAS. PETER PINDAR. — ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLDFISHES. THOMAS GRAY. — THE RETIRED CAT. WILLIAM COWPER. — SAYING NOT MEANING. WILLIAM BASIL WAKE.
  17. 17.JULIA. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
  18. 18.A COCK AND HEN STORY. ROBERT SOUTHEY — PART III. — PART IV. — THE SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS; OR, THE QUEST OF SULTAUN SOLIMAUN. SIR WALTER SCOTT. — THE DONKEY AND HIS PANNIERS. THOMAS MOORE. — MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE. A LEGEND OF JARVIS'S JETTY. B. HARRIS BABHAM. — THE GHOST. R. HARRIS BARHAM. — A LAY OF ST. GENGULPHUS. R. HARRIS BARHAM
  19. 19.SIR RUPERT THE FEARLESS. A LEGEND OF GERMANY. R. HARRIS BARHAM — LOOK AT THE CLOCK. R. HARRIS BARHAM. — THE BAGMAN'S DOG. R. HARRIS BARHAM.
  20. 20.DAME FREDEGONDE. WILLIAM AYTOUS. — THE KING OF BRENTFORD'S TESTAMENT. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY — THE RETORT GEORGE P. MORRIS — SATIRICAL
  21. 21.THE RABBLE: OR, WHO PAYS! SAMUEL BUTLER. — THE CHAMELEON. MATTHEW PRIOR. — MERRY ANDREW. MATTHEW PRIOR. — JACK AND JOAN. MATTHEW PRIOR.
  22. 22.THE PROGRESS OF POETRY. DEAN SWIFT — TWELVE ARTICLES. DEAN SWIFT. — THE BEASTS' CONFESSION. DEAN SWIFT
  23. 23.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. — 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.
  24. 24.FAMILY POETRY. R. HARRIS BARHAM
  25. 25.THE SUNDAY QUESTION. THOMAS HOOD.
  26. 26.DEATH'S RAMBLE. THOMAS HOOD. — THE BACHELOR'S DREAM. THOMAS HOOD.
  27. 27.ON SAMUEL ROGERS. LORD BYRON.
  28. 28.MY PARTNER. W. MACKWORTH PRAED.
  29. 29.THE BELLE OF THE BALL. W. MACKWORTH PRAED.
  30. 30.SORROWS OF WERTHER. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
  31. 31.THE YANKEE VOLUNTEERS. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
  32. 32.COURTSHIP AND MATRIMONY. A POEM, IN TWO CANTOS. PUNCH. — CANTO THE SECOND.
  33. 33.CONCERNING SISTERS-IN-LAW. PUNCH. I.
  34. 34.TO SONG-BIRDS ON A SUNDAY. PUNCH.
  35. 35.THE FIRST SENSIBLE VALENTINE. (ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHING FRUITS OF THE EMIGRATION MANIA.) PUNCH.
  36. 36.A SCENE ON THE AUSTRIAN FRONTIER. PUNCH.
  37. 37.ODE TO THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT ON HIS WONDERFUL REAPPEARANCE. PUNCH. — THE FEAST OF VEGETABLES, AND THE FLOW OF WATER. PUNCH.
  38. 38.KINDRED QUACKS. PUNCH.
  39. 39.THE RAILWAY TRAVELER'S FAREWELL TO HIS FAMILY. PUNCH.
  40. 40.A LETTER AND AN ANSWER. PUNCH.
  41. 41.PAPA TO HIS HEIR, A FAST MINOR. PUNCH. — SELLING OFF AT THE OPERA HOUSE A POETICAL CATALOGUE. PUNCH.
  42. 42.WONDERS OF THE VICTORIAN AGE. PUNCH.
  43. 43.TO THE PORTRAIT OF "A GENTLEMAN," IN THE ATHENAEUM GALLERY. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
  44. 44.MY AUNT. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
  45. 45.COMIC MISERIES. JOHN G. SAXE. — IDEES NAPOLEONIENNES. WILLIAM AYTOUN.
  46. 46.THE LAY OF THE LOVER'S FRIEND WILLIAM AYTOUN — PARODIES AND BURLESQUES — WINE. JOHN GAY.
  47. 47.ODE ON SCIENCE. DEAN SWIFT. — A LOVE SONG, IN THE MODERN TASTE. DEAN SWIFT. — BAUCIS AND PHILEMON.
  48. 48.A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER IN IMITATION OP VIRGIL'S GEORGICS. DEAN SWIFT.
  49. 49.THE PROGRESS OF CURIOSITY; OR A ROYAL VISIT TO WHITBKEAD'S BREWERY. PETER PINDAR. — BIRTH-DAY ODE. — THE AUTHOR AND THE STATESMAN [ADDRESSED BY FIELDING TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.]
  50. 50.INSCRIPTION — THE AMATORY SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM. ROBERT SOUTHEY.
  51. 51.THE LOVE ELEGIES OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM. ROBERT SOUTHEY.
  52. 52.PLAY-HOUSE MUSINGS. A BURLESQUE IMITATION OF COLERIDGE.—REJECTED ADDRESSES. JAMES SMITH — THE NIGHT. — THE BURNING.
  53. 53.DRURY'S DIRGE. [BY LAUBA MATILDA.—REJECTED ADDRESSES.] HORACE SMITH.
  54. 54.WHAT IS LIFE BY "ONE OF THE FANCY." BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE
  55. 55.FRAGMENTS. [BY A FREE-LOVER.] BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, 1823 — THE CONFESSION. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE
  56. 56.THE MILLING-MATCH BETWEEN ENTELLUS AND DARES. TRANSLATED FROM THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE AENEID, BY ONE OF THE FANCY. THOMAS MOORE.
  57. 57.RAISING THE DEVIL. A LEGEND OF CORNELIUS AGRIPPA. R. HARRIS BARHAM.
  58. 58.DOMESTIC POEMS. THOMAS HOOD. I. — III. — ODE TO PERRY, THE INVENTOR OF THE STEEL PEN. THOMAS HOOD
  59. 59.A THEATRICAL CURIOSITY. CRUIKSHANK'S OMNIBUS. — SIDDONS AND HER MAID. W. S. LANDOR
  60. 60.THE SECRET SORROW. PUNCH
  61. 61.SONG FOR PUNCH DRINKERS. AFTER SCHILLER. PUNCH.
  62. 62.THE SONG OF THE HUMBUGGED HUSBAND. PUNCH.
  63. 63.TEMPERANCE SONG. PUNCH. AIR—FRIEND OF MY SOUL. — LINES
  64. 64.MADNESS. PUNCH. — THE BANDIT'S FATE. PUNCH.
  65. 65.LINES WRITTEN AFTER A BATTLE. BY AN ASSISTANT SURGEON OF THE NINETEENTH NANKEENS. PUNCH. — THE PHRENOLOGIST TO HIS MISTRESS. PUNCH.
  66. 66.THE CHEMIST TO HIS LOVE. PUNCH.
  67. 67.A BALLAD OF BEDLAM. PUNCH.
  68. 68.STANZAS TO AN EGG. [BY A SPOON.] PUNCH.
  69. 69.A FRAGMENT. PUNCH.
  70. 70.EATING SONG. PUNCH.
  71. 71.THE SICK CHILD. [BY THE HONOBABLE WILHELMINA SKEGGS.] PUNCH. — THE IMAGINATIVE CRISIS. PUNCH. — LINES TO BESSY. [BY A STUDENT AT LAW.] PUNCH.
  72. 72.MONODY ON THE DEATH OF AN ONLY CLIENT. PUNCH. — LOVE ON THE OCEAN. PUNCH.
  73. 73.PARODY FOR A REFORMED PARLIAMENT. PUNCH. — THE WAITER. PUNCH. — THE LAST APPENDIX TO "YANKEE DOODLE." PUNCH, 1851. — LINES FOR MUSIC. PUNCH.
  74. 74.DRAMA FOR EVERY-DAY LIFE. LUDGATE HILL.—A MYSTERY. PUNCH.
  75. 75.JONES AT THE BARBER'S SHOP. PUNCH.
  76. 76.THE SATED ONE. [IMPROMPTU AFTER CHRISTMAS DINNER.] PUNCH. — THE RAILWAY GILPIN. PUNCH. — THE EPITAPH.
  77. 77."A BOOK IN A BUSTLE." A TRUE TALE OF THE WARWICK ASSIZES. BY THE GHOST OF CRABBE. PUNCH. — STANZAS FOR THE SENTIMENTAL. PUNCH.
  78. 78.COLLOQUY ON A CAB-STAND. ADAPTED FOR THE BOUDOIR. PUNCH.
  79. 79.THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. AN ENGLISH CRITICISM PUNCH. — COMFORT IN AFFLICTION. WILLIAM AYTOUN. — THE HUSBAND'S PETITION. WILLIAM AYTOUN.
  80. 80.THE BITER BIT. WILLIAM AYTOUN. — A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION. BY SIR E———- B———- L———-. WILLIAM AYTOUN — THE DIRGE OF THE DRINKER. BY W——— E——— A———, ESQ. WILLIAM AYTOUN. — FRANCESCA DA RIMINI. TO BON GAULTIER. WILLIAM AYTOUN. — LOUIS NAPOLEON'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY WILLIAM AYTOUN.
  81. 81.THE BATTLE OF THE BOULEVARD WILLIAM AYTOUN.
  82. 82.PUFFS POETICAL. WILLIAM AYTOUM
  83. 83.REFLECTIONS OF A PROUD PEDESTRIAN. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
  84. 84.EVENING. BY A TAILOR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
  85. 85.PHAETHON; OR, THE AMATEUR COACHMAN. JOHN G. SAXX — THE SCHOOL-HOUSE. [AFTER GOLDSMITH.] JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL — EPIGRAMMATIC
  86. 86.EPIGRAMS OF BEN JONSON. — TO BRAINHARDY. — TO DOCTOR EMPIRIC. — TO SIR ANNUAL FILTER. — ON CHEVRIL THE LAWYER
  87. 87.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.
  88. 88.EPIGRAMS OF EDMUND WALLEB. — OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE DWARFS.
  89. 89.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.
  90. 90.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.]
  91. 91.EPIGRAMS OF ALEXANDER POPE. — TO A BLOCKHEAD. — THE FOOL AND THE POET.
  92. 92.EPIGRAMS OF DEAN SWIFT. — THE CUDGELED HUSBAND. — ON SEEING VERSES WRITTEN UPON WINDOWS AT INNS — 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.
  93. 93.PAULUS THE LAWYER. LINDSAY.
  94. 94.EPIGRAMS BY THOMAS SHERIDAN. — ON DEAN SWIFT'S PROPOSED HOSPITAL FOR LUNATICS
  95. 95.WHICH IS WHICH. BYRON.
  96. 96.ON SOME LINES OF LOPEZ DE VEGA. DR. JOHNSON.
  97. 97.ON SCOTLAND. CLEVELAND.
  98. 98.EPIGRAMS OF PETER PINDAR. — ON THE CONCLUSION OF HIS ODES — THE LEX TALIONIS UPON BENJAMIN WEST — BARRY'S ATTACK UPON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS — ON THE DEATH OP 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.
  99. 99.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.
  100. 100.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
  101. 101.EPIGRAMS S. T. COLERIDGE. — EXPECTORATION THE SECOND. — AVARO. [STOLEN FROM LESSING.] — BEELZEBUB AND JOB. — SENTIMENTAL. — AN ETERNAL POEM. — BAD POETS.
  102. 102.TO MR. ALEXANDRE, THE VENTRILOQUIST. SIR WALTER SCOTT.
  103. 103.FRENCH AND ENGLISH. ERSKINE
  104. 104.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.) — THE RABBINICAL ORIGIN OF WOMEN. — ANACREONTIQUE. — SPECULATION.
  105. 105.ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT. REV. SAMUEL WESLEY.
  106. 106.ON THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE WHIG ASSOCIATES OP THE PRINCE REGENT, AT NOT OBTAINING OFFICE. CHARLES LAMB.
  107. 107.ON LORD DUDLEY AND WARD. SAMUEL ROGERS
  108. 108.EPIGRAMS OF LORD BYRON. — WINDSOR POETICS. — ON A CARRIER WHO DIED OF DRUNKENNESS.
  109. 109.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.
  110. 110.EPIGRAMS BY THOMAS HOOD.
  111. 111.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 OP LIFE. — A CONJUGAL CONUNDRUM. — NUMBERS ALTERED.
  112. 112.THE EMPTY BOTTLE. WILLIAM AYTOUN — THE DEATH OF DOCTOR MORRISON. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
  113. 113.EPIGRAMS BY JOHN G. SAXE. — ANOTHER. — ON AN ILL-READ LAWYER. — ON AN UGLY PERSON SITTING FOR A DAGUERREOTYPE — WOMAN'S WILL. — FAMILY QUARRELS.
  114. 114.A REVOLUTIONARY HERO. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
  115. 115.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.
  116. 116.THE JOVIAL PRIEST'S CONFESSION. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF WALTER DE MAPES, TIME OF HENRY II. LEIGH HUNT.
  117. 117.TONIS AD RESTO MARE. ANONYMOUS
  118. 118.DIC. DEAN SWIFT.
  119. 119.MOLL. DEAN SWIFT. — TO MY MISTRESS. DEAN SWIFT. — A LOVE SONG. DEAN SWIFT.
  120. 120.A GENTLE ECHO ON WOMAN.
  121. 121.TO MY NOSE. ANONYMOUS.
  122. 122.ROGER AND DOLLY. BLACKWOOD.
  123. 123.THE IRISHMAN. BLACKWOOD.
  124. 124.A _CAT_ALECTIC MONODY! CRUIKSHANK'S OMNIBUS.
  125. 125.A NEW SONG OF NEW SIMILES. JOHN BAY
  126. 126.REMINISCENCES OP A SENTIMENTALIST. THOMAS HOOD.
  127. 127.FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY. A PATHETIC BALLAD. THOMAS HOOD.
  128. 128.NO! THOMAS HOOD.
  129. 129.JACOB OMNIUM'S HOSS A NEW PALLICE COURT CHANT. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY — THE WOFLE NEW BALLAD OF JANE RONEY AND MARY BROWN. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
  130. 130.THE BALLAD OF ELIZA DAVIS. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
  131. 131.THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF THE FOUNDLING OF SHOREDITCH. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
  132. 132.THE CRYSTAL PALACE. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. — THE SPECULATORS. W. MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
  133. 133.LETTER
  134. 134.A LETTER
  135. 135.THE CANDIDATE'S CREED. (BIGLOW PAPERS.) JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
  136. 136.THE COURTIN'. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
  137. 137.A SONG FOR A CATARRH. PUNCH
  138. 138.EPITAPH ON A CANDLE. PUNCH.
  139. 139.POETRY ON AN IMPROVED PRINCIPLE. A RENCONTER WITH A TEA-TOTALLER. PUNCH.
  140. 140.ON A REJECTED NOSEGAY, OFFERED BY THE AUTHOR TO A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY, WHO RETURNED IT. PUNCH.
  141. 141.A SERENADE. PUNCH.
  142. 142.AN INVITATION TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS PUNCH.
  143. 143.THE PEOPLE AND THEIR PALACE. IMPROVISED BY A FINE GENTLEMAN. PUNCH.
  144. 144.A "SWELL'S" HOMAGE TO MRS. STOWE PUNCH.
  145. 145.THE EXCLUSIVE'S BROKEN IDOL. PUNCH.
  146. 146.EPITAPH ON A LOCOMOTIVE. BY THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF A DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT (NO BLAME TO BE ATTACHED TO ANY SERVANTS OF THE COMPANY). PUNCH.
  147. 147.THE TICKET OF LEAVE. [AS SUNG BY THE HOLDER, AMID A CONVIVIAL CIRCLE IN THE SLUMS.] PUNCH.
  148. 148.A POLKA LYRIC. BARCLAY PHILLIPS
  149. 149.A SUNNIT TO THE BIG OX.
  150. 150.ENIGMATIC — RIDDLES BY MATTHEW PRIOR. — ON THE MOON. — ON INK. — ON A CIRCLE. — ON A PEN. — A FAN. — ON A CANNON. — ON THE FIVE SENSES. — ON SNOW. — ON A CANDLE. — ON A CORKSCREW. — AN ECHO. — ON THE VOWELS. — ON A PAIR OF DICE. — ON A SHADOW IN A GLASS. — ON TIME. — CATALOGUE OF SOURCES

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