The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a broad and diverse selection of light and comic verse on miscellaneous topics, including religion, the laboring classes, romance, government, food, the human body, animals, the natural world, and everyday hobbies. Also included are parodies and imitations, ingenuities and oddities, and nonsense verse, all using inventive techniques such as puns, wordplay, alliteration, doggerel, adventurous rhyming, and dialect. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes by AnonymousKing John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by AnonymousGluggity Glug: From 'The Myrtle and the Vine' by George Colman the YoungerI Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'KeeffeGood Ale by John StillThe Pilgrims and the Peas by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)The Vicar of Bray by AnonymousHudibras' Sword and Dagger: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Dr. Samuel ButlerThe Fine Old English Gentleman by AnonymousToby Tosspot by George Colman the YoungerThe Milkmaid by Jeffreys TaylorMorning Meditations by Thomas HoodElegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver GoldsmithOld Grimes by Albert G. GreeneElegy on Madam Blaize by Oliver GoldsmithThe Grave-Yard: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell LowellFaithless Nelly Gray (A Pathetic Ballad) by Thomas HoodFaithless Sally Brown by Thomas HoodOrator Puff by Thomas MooreThe Gouty Merchant and the Stranger by Horace SmithThe Diverting History of John Gilpin by William CowperEpigrams by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Razor-Seller by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)Paper (A Conversational Pleasantry) by Benjamin FranklinEpitaph: For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, Lost at Waterloo by George CanningRudolph the Headsman: From 'This Is It' by Oliver Wendell HolmesSong of One Eleven Years in Prison by George CanningLittle Billee by William Makepeace ThackerayCaptain Reece by William Schwenck GilbertThe Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell': From 'The Bab Ballads' by William Schwenck GilbertThe Art of Book-Keeping by Thomas HoodAddress to the Toothache by Robert BurnsTo the Terrestrial Globe (By a Miserable Wretch) by William Schwenck GilbertThe Nose and the Eyes by William CowperThe Vowels: An Enigma by Jonathan SwiftAlnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene HalleckThe Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh CloughThe New Church Organ by Will CarletonTonis ad Resto Mare by Jonathan SwiftThe Irishman and the Lady by William MaginnThe Recruit by Robert William ChambersRitter Hugo by Charles Godfrey LelandHans Breitmann's Party by Charles Godfrey LelandLeedle Yawcob Strauss by Charles Follen AdamsDot Long-Handled Dipper by Charles Follen AdamsThe Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.)America: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell LowellWhat Mr. Robinson Thinks: From 'The Biglow Papers,' No. III by James Russell LowellSwell's Soliloquy by AnonymousThe Compliment by Eugene FieldThe Nantucket Skipper by James Thomas FieldsThe One-Hoss Shay; or, The Deacon's Masterpiece (A Logical Story) by Oliver Wendell HolmesGriggsby's Station by James Whitcomb RileyHe'd Had No Show by Sam Walter FossThe Mystified Quaker in New York by AnonymousTo the 'Sextant' by Arabella M. WillsonJim Bludso of the Prairie Belle: Pike County Ballads by John HayTo the Pliocene Skull (A Geological Address) by Bret HarteLittle Breeches: A Pike County View of Special Providence by John HayJim by Bret HarteBanty Tim by John HayDow's Flat by Bret HarteThe Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret HartePlain Language from Truthful James (Popularly Known as 'The Heathen Chinee') by Bret HarteA Plantation Ditty by Frank Lebby StantonDe Fust Banjo by Irwin RussellPerils of Thinking by AnonymousNebuchadnezzar by Irwin RussellA Life's Love by AnonymousDarwin by Mortimer CollinsOde for a Social Meeting (With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller) by Oliver Wendell HolmesHollow Hospitality: From 'Satires,' Book III, Satire 3 by Dr. Joseph HallA Recipe: Roasted Sucking-Pig (from 'Punch's Poetical Cookery Book') by AnonymousA Recipe for Salad by Sydney SmithOde to Tobacco by Charles S. CalverleyA Farewell to Tobacco by Charles LambToo Great a Sacrifice by AnonymousFrom 'Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum' by Wallace IrwinA Saddened Tramp by AnonymousThe Modern House That Jack Built by AnonymousThe Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder by George CanningDeborah Lee by William H. BurleighThe Cock and the Bull by Charles Stuart CalverleyThe Auld Wife by Charles Stuart CalverleyLovers, and a Reflection by Charles Stuart CalverleyNephelidia by Algernon Charles SwinburneThe Arab by Charles Stuart CalverleyThe Modern Hiawatha by AnonymousPoems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem by Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr)Belagcholly Days by AnonymousSneezing by Leigh HuntTo My Nose by Alfred A. Forrester (Alfred Crowquill)Lapsus Calami by James Kenneth StephenA Conservative by Charlotte Perkins Gilman'Forever' by Charles Stuart CalverleySiege of Belgrade by AnonymousMy Love by AnonymousOde to the Human Heart by Laman BlanchardMetrical Feet by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeNocturnal Sketch (Blank Verse in Rhyme) by Thomas HoodRailroad Rhyme by John Godfrey SaxePhysics (The Unconscious Poetizing of a Philosopher) by William WhewellThe Collegian to His Bride: Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form by AnonymousThe Lawyer's Invocation to Spring by Henry Howard BrownellThe Cosmic Egg by AnonymousThe Hen by Matthias ClaudiusOde—To the Roc by William John CourthopeMotherhood by Charles Stuart CalverleyDisaster by Charles Stuart CalverleyLines Written in an Album by Willis GaylordOn the Brink by Charles Stuart CalverleyThe V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey RocheLarks and Nightingales by Nathan Haskell DoleOf Blue China by Andrew LangA Riddle: The Letter 'H' by Catherine FanshaweA Threnody by George Thomas LaniganLines to Miss Florence Huntington by AnonymousNonsense by Thomas MooreThe Purple Cow by Gelett BurgessPsycholophon by Gelett BurgessThe Baker's Tale: From 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)For a Novel of Hall Caine's (After Kipling) by Robert Bridges (Droch)
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2) - Various - Description and brief content, listen free online on the e-library site at Knigi-Audio.com/en/
