The Humorous Poetry of the English Language | Page 2

more wisdom than either. They who possess it may congratulate themselves upon having the largest collection ever made of the sportive effusions of genius.
INDEX.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SUBJECT. AUTHOR.
To my Empty Purse Chaucer?To Chloe Peter Pindar?To a Fly Peter Pindar?Man may be Happy Peter Pindar?Address to the Toothache Burns?The Pig Southey?Snuff Southey?Farewell to Tobacco Lamb?Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos Byron?The Lisbon Packet Byron?To Fanny Moore?Young Jessie Moore?Rings and Seals Moore?Nets and Cages Moore?Salad Sydney Smith?My Letters Barham?The Poplar Barham?Spring Hood?Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy Hood?Schools and School-fellows Praed?The Vicar Praed?The Bachelor's Cane-bottomed Chair Thackeray?Stanzas to Pale Ale Punch?Children must be paid for Punch?The Musquito Bryant?To the Lady in the Chemisette with Black Buttons Willis Come out, Love Willis?The White Chip Hat Willis?You know if it was you Willis?The Declaration Willis?Love in a Cottage Willis?To Helen in a Huff Willis?The Height of the Ridiculous O. W. Holmes?The Briefless Barrister J. G. Saxe?Sonnet to a Clam J. G. Saxe?Venus of the Needle Allingham
NARRATIVE.
Take thy Old Cloak about thee Percy Reliques?King John and the Abbot Percy Reliques?The Baffled Knight, or Lady's Policy Percy Reliques?Truth and Falsehood Prior?Flattery Williams (Sir C. H.)?The Pig and Magpie Peter Pindar?Advice to Young Women Peter Pindar?Economy Peter Pindar?The Country Lasses Peter Pindar?The Pilgrims and Peas Peter Pindar?On the Death of a Favorite Cat Gray?The Retired Cat Cowper?Saying, not Meaning Wake?Julia Coleridge?A Cock and Hen Story Southey?The Search after Happiness Scott (Sir W.)?The Donkey and his Panniers Moore?Misadventure at Margate Barham?The Ghost Barham?A Lay of St. Gengulphus Barham?Sir Rupert the Fearless Barham?Look at the Clock Barham?The Bagman's Dog Barham?Dame Fredegonde W. Aytoun?The King of Brentford's Testament Thackeray?Titmarsh's Carmen Lillienses Thackeray?Shadows Lantern?The Retort G. P. Morris
SATIRICAL.
The Rabble, or Who Pays? S. Butler?The Chameleon Prior?The Merry Andrew Prior?Jack and Joan Prior?The Progress of Poetry Swift?Twelve Articles Swift?The Beast's Confession Swift?A New Simile for the Ladies Sheridan (Dr. T.)?On a Lap-dog Gay?The Razor Seller Peter Pindar?The Sailor Boy at Prayers Peter Pindar?Bienseance Peter Pindar?Kings and Courtiers Peter Pindar?Praying for Rain Peter Pindar?Apology for Kings Peter Pindar?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 Yriarte?The Ass and his Master Yriarte?The Love of the World Reproved, or Hypocrisy Detected Cowper Report of an Adjudged Case Cowper?Holy Willie's Prayer Burns?Epitaph on Holy Willie Burns?Address to the Deil Burns?The Devil's Walk on Earth Southey?Church and State Moore?Lying Moore?The Millennium Moore?The Little Grand Lama Moore?Eternal London Moore?On Factotum Ned Moore?Letters (Fudge Correspondence), First Letter Moore?Letters (Fudge Correspondence), Second Letter Moore?Letters (Fudge Correspondence), Third Letter Moore?The Literary Lady Sheridan (R. B.)?Netley Abbey Barham?Family Poetry Barham?The Sunday Question Hood?Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire Hood?Death's Ramble Hood?The Bachelor's Dream Hood?On Samuel Rogers Byron?My Partner Praed?The Belle of the Ball Praed?Sorrows of Werther Thackeray?The Yankee Volunteer Thackeray?Courtship and Matrimony Thackeray?Concerning Sisters-in-law Punch?The Lobsters Punch?To Song Birds on a Sunday Punch?The First Sensible Valentine Punch?A Scene on the Austrian Frontier Punch?Ode to the Great Sea Serpent Punch?The Feast of Vegetables and the Flow of Water Punch?Kindred Quacks Punch?The Railway Traveler's Farewell to his Family Punch?A Letter and an Answer Punch?Papa to his Heir Punch?Selling off at the Opera-house Punch?Wonders of the Victorian Age Punch?To the Portrait of a Gentleman Holmes?My Aunt Holmes?Comic Miseries Saxe?Idees Napoleoniennes Aytoun?The Lay of the Lover's Friend Aytoun
PARODIES AND BURLESQUES
Wine Gay?Ode on Science Swift?A Love Song Swift?Baucis and Philemon Swift?A Description of a City Shower Swift?The Progress of Curiosity Pindar?The Author and the Statesman Fielding?The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder Anti-Jacobin Inscription Anti-Jacobin?Song Canning?The Amatory Sonnets of Abel Shufflebottom Southey
1. Delia at Play
2. The Poet proves the existence of a Soul from his Love for Delia
3. The Poet expresses his feelings respecting a Portrait in Delia's Parlor The Love Elegies of Abel Shufflebottom Southey
4. The Poet relates how he obtained Delia's Pocket-handkerchief
5. The Poet expatiates on the Beauty of Delia's Hair
6. The Poet relates how he stole a lock of Delia's Hair, and her
7. anger The Baby's Debut James Smith Playhouse Musings James Smith A Tale of Drury Lane Horace Smith Drury's Dirge Horace Smith What is Life? Blackwood The Confession Blackwood The Milling Match between Entellus and Darcs Moore Not a Sous had he Got Barham Raising the Devil Barham The London University Barham Domestic Poems Hood
8. Good-night
9. A Parental Ode to my Son
10. A Serenade Ode to Perry Hood A Theatrical Curiosity Cruikshank's Om The Secret Sorrow Punch Song for Punch-drinkers Punch The Song of the Humbugged Husband Punch Temperance Song Punch Lines Punch Madness Punch The Bandit's Fate Punch Lines written after a Battle Punch The Phrenologist to his Mistress Punch The Chemist to his Love Punch A Ballad of Bedlam Punch Stanzas to an Egg Punch A Fragment Punch Eating Soup Punch The Sick Child Punch The Imaginative Crisis Punch Lines to Bessy Punch Monody