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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

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