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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

The Jovial Priest's Confession Leigh Hunt Tonis ad Resto Mare Anonymous Die Dean Swift Moll Dean Swift To My Mistress Dean Swift A Love Song Dean Swift A Gentle Echo on Woman Dean Swift To my Nose Anonymous Roger and Dolly Blackwood The Irishman Blackwood A Catalectic Monody Cruikshank's Om. A New Song Gay Reminiscences of a Sentimentalist Hood Faithless Nelly Gray Hood No! Hood Jacob Omnium's Hoss Thackeray The Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown Thackeray The Ballad of Eliza Davis Thackeray Lines on a Late Hospicious Ewent Thackeray The Lamentable Ballad of the Foundling of Shoreditch Thackeray The Crystal Palace Thackeray The Speculators Thackeray A Letter from Mr. Hosea Biglow, etc. Lowell A Letter from a Candidate for the Presidency Lowell The Candidate's Creed Lowell The Courtin' Lowell A Song for a Catarrh Punch Epitaph on a Candle Punch Poetry on an Improved Principle Punch On a Rejected Nosegay Punch A Serenade Punch Railroad Nursery Rhyme Punch An Invitation to the Zoological Gardens Punch To the Leading Periodical Punch The People and their Palace Punch A Swell's Homage to Mrs. Stowe Punch The Exclusive's Broken Idol Punch The Last Kick of Fop's Alley Punch The Mad Cabman's Song of Sixpence Punch Alarming Prospect Punch Epitaph on a Locomotive Punch The Ticket of Leave Punch A Polka Lyric Barclay Phillips A Sunnit to the Big Ox Anonymous

ENIGMATIC.

Riddles by Matthew Prior. Two Riddles Enigma Another Riddles by Dean Swift and his friends. 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 On the Same An Echo On the Vowels On a Pair of Dice On a Shadow in a Glass On Time

LIST OF SOURCES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

JAMES PARTON BRYANT BURNS LAMB BYRON POPE CHAUCER WILLIS HOLMES LOWELL LANDOR THACKERAY

MISCELLANEOUS.

TO MY EMPTY PURSE. CHAUCER.