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The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James, 1822-1891

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The Humorous Poetry Of The English Language, From Chaucer To Saxe. With Notes, Explanatory And Biographical, By James Parton. Preface.

Index. Miscellaneous. Subject. Author. Narrative.

Enigmatic. List Of Sources List Of Illustrations. Miscellaneous.

To Chloe. To A Fly,

Address To The Toothache.

Written After Swimming From Sestos To Abydos. Byron.

Venus Of The Needle. William Allingham. Narrative

The Jewess And Her Son A Story.

Part I. Part Ii.

Lay Of The Naiads.

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The Petit Maitre, And The Man On The Wheel

Moral. Story The Second.

Epitaph On Holy Willie

R.f. Third Letter.

Canto The First. Courtship. Canto The Second. Matrimony.

The Presbyters To Palmerston. Palmerston To The Presbyters.

Parodies And Burlesques

Baucis And Philemon.

I. Delia At Play. Ii. The Poet Proves The Existence Of A Soul From His Love For Delia.

Iii. I. The Poet Relates How He Obtained Delia's Pocket-handkerchief. Ii. The Poet Expatiates On The Beauty Of Delia's Hair

Iii. The Poet Relates How He Stole A Lock Of Delia S Hair, And Her Anger.

Grand Chorus: Good-night. Ii. A Parental Ode To My Son, Aged Three Years And Five Months.

Iii. A Serenade.

Enter Blind Vocalist.

Friend Of Self-government. Cab-driver.

Friend Of Self-government.

I. Ii. Om My Refusing Angelina A Kiss Under The Mistletoe Iii.

I. Paris And Helen.

Ii. Tarquin And The Augur.

Moral. Epigrammatic Epigrams Of Ben Jonson. To Fine Grand.

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.

The Place Of The Damned. The Day Of Judgment. Epigrams By Thomas Sheridan. On A Caricature. On Dean Swift's Proposed Hospital For Lunatics

Epigrams Of Peter Pindar. Edmund Burke's Attack On Warren Hastings On The Conclusion Of His Odes The Lex Talionis Upon Benjamin West

On A Tuet-hunter. The Kiss. Epitaph On A Well-known Poet-(robert Southey.) The Rabbinical Origin Of Women.

A Gentle Echo On Woman.

Affecting Copy Of Verses (with Notes).

"her End Was Pieces."

A Sunnit To The Big Ox. Enigmatic Riddles By Matthew Prior. Two Riddles.

Enigma. Another. A Maypole. 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

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.