The Book of Humorous Verse

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George H. Doran Company, 1920 - 962 Seiten

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The Jester Condemned to Death
578
The Well of St Keyne
584
The Knight and the Lady
590
An Eastern Question
598
The Goose
611
Robinson Crusoes Story
617
Lady T Hastings
635
The Story of Prince Agib
641
Dighton is Engaged
647
William Brown of Oregon
653
John Townsend Trowbridge
697
Double Ballade of Primitive Man Andrew Lang
702
Lady Nairne
704
The Ahkoond of Swat
710
Ould Doctor Mack
717
Address to the Toothache
724
John Barleycorn
730
The Cataract of Lodore Robert Southey
743
Echo John G Saxe
750
The American Traveller Robert H Newell
757
Travesty of Miss Fanshawes
763
The Hundred Best Books Mostyn T Pigott
769
The March to Moscow Robert Southey
775
NinetyNine in the Shade Rossiter Johnson
781
Unknown
784
Dirge Unknown
787
Tim Turpin Thomas Hood
795
Deaths Ramble Thomas Hood
801
A Carmans Account of a
807
The Siege of Belgrade Unknown
813
The Happy Man Gilles Ménage
814
An Invitation to the Zoological
822
Cautionary Verses Theodore Hook
828
The Jovial Priests Confession Leigh 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
A Country Summer Pastoral
883
The Frog
907
A Darwinian Ballad
913
The Turtle and Flamingo
923
The DinkeyBird
929
A Visit From St Nicholas
935
A Parental Ode to My Son Aged
941
Bunches of Grapes
947
Unknown
955
I Thomas Ingoldsby
956
John Marriott
957
John G Saxe
961
Thackeray
962
Frederic E Weatherly
963
Thomas Gray
968
Bert Leston Taylor
969
Robert W Chambers
972
Nixon Waterman
977
Unknown
978
Sam Walter Foss
980
Mavrone Arthur Guiterman 378
981
CYNICISM
983
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Seite 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—
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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!
Seite 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.

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