The World's Best Poetry, Volume 09: Of Tragedy: of Humour

Part 23

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One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy.

'T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON (_Lewis Carroll_).

FOR A NOVEL OF HALL CAINE'S.

AFTER KIPLING.

He sits in a sea-green grotto with a bucket of lurid paint, And draws the Thing as it isn't for the God of things as they ain't.

ROBERT BRIDGES (_Droch_).

INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES.

_For occupation, nativity, etc., of authors, and the_ _American publishers of American poetical works, see_ _General Index of Authors, Volume X._

ADAMS, CHARLES FOLLEN. PAGE. Dot Long-Handled Dipper, 328 Little Yawcob Strauss, 327

ARISTOPHANES. Women's Chorus (_Collins' Translation_), 200

ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Slaying of Sohrab, The, 28

BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS (_Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq._). Jackdaw of Rheims, The, 331

BLANCHARD, LAMON. Ode to the Human Heart, 428

BOKER, GEORGE HENRY. Countess Laura, 55

BRIDGES, ROBERT (_Droch_). For a Novel of Hall Caine's, 460

BROOKS, CHARLES TIMOTHY. Wives of Weinsberg, The (_German of Bürger_), 200

BROWNELL, HENRY HOWARD. Lawyer's Invocation to Spring, The, 435

BROWNING, ROBERT. Ivàn Ivànovitch, 102

BUCHANAN, ROBERT. Fra Giacomo, 76

BÜRGER, GOTTFRIED AUGUST. Wives of Weinsberg, The (_Brooks' Translation_), 200

BURGESS, FRANK GELETT. Psycholophon, 456 Purple Cow, The, 455

BURLEIGH, WILLIAM HENRY. Deborah Lee, 400

BURNS, ROBERT. Address to the Toothache, 307

BUTLER, SAMUEL. Hudibras' Sword and Dagger (_Hudibras_), 254

BUTLER, WILLIAM ALLEN. "Nothing to wear", 213

BYRON, GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD. Prisoner of Chillon, The, 88

CALVERLEY, CHARLES STUART. Arab, The, 413 Auld Wife, The, 407 Cock and the Bull, The, 402 Disaster, 441 Forever, 424 Lovers and Reflection, 409 Motherhood, 440 Ode to Tobacco, 387 On the Brink, 443

CANNING, GEORGE. Epitaph on Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, 292 Friend of Humanity and the Knife Grinder, The, 398 Song of One eleven years in Prison, 293

CARLETON, WILL. New Church Organ, The, 316

CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM. Recruit, The, 321

CLAUDIUS, MATTHIAS. Hen, The (_Translation_), 436

CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH. Latest Decalogue, The, 315

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. Epigrams, 286 Metrical Feet, 429

COLLINS, MORTIMER. Darwin, 383

COLLINS, WILLIAM. Women's Chorus (_Greek of Aristophanes_), 200

COLMAN, GEORGE, THE YOUNGER. Gluggity Glug (_The Myrtle and the Vine_), 245 Toby Tosspot, 257

COURTHOPE, WILLIAM JOHN. Ode to the Roc, 437

COWPER, WILLIAM. Diverting History of John Gilpin, The, 276 Nose and the Eyes, The, 310 On the Loss of the Royal George, 182

DAVIS, THOMAS OSBORNE. Sack of Baltimore, The, 127

DOBSON, [HENRY] AUSTIN. Before Sedan, 101

DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE (_Lewis Carroll_). Baker's Tale, The (_The Hunting of the Snark_), 456 Jabberwocky, 459

DOLE, NATHAN HASKELL. _Larks and Nightingales_, 447

DOWLING, BARTHOLOMEW. Revelry of the Dying, 170

EURIPIDES. Sacrifice of Polyxena, The (_Symord's Translation_), 5

FANSHAWE, CATHERINE MARIA. Riddle, A (_The Letter "H"_), 450

FIELD, EUGENE. Compliment, The, 342

FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS. Nantucket Skipper, The, 343

FORRESTER, ALFRED H. (_Alfred Crowquill_). My Nose, To, 421

FOSS, SAM WALTER. He'd Had No Show, 351

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Paper, 289

GAYLORD, WILLIS. Lines written in an Album, 443

GILBERT, WILLIAM SCHWENCK. Captain Reece, 297 Terrestrial Globe, To the, 309 Yarn of the "Nancy Bell," The, 301

GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON. Conservative, A, 422

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. Elegy on Madam Blaize, 266 Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, 263

GREENE, ALBERT GORTON. Old Grimes, 264

HALL, JOSEPH. Hollow Hospitality, 384

HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE. Alnwick Castle, 312

HARRINGTON, SIR JOHN. Of a Certaine Man, 199

HARTE, [FRANCIS] BRET. Dow's Flat, 368 Jim, 364 Plain Language from Truthful James, 374 Pliocene Skull, To the, 360 Ramon, 176 Society upon the Stanislaus, The, 372

HAY, JOHN. Banty Jim, 366 Jim Bludso of the Prairie Bell, 358 Little Breeches, 362

HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE. Bernardo del Carpio, 85 Casabianca, 184

HICKEY, EMILY HENRIETTA. Sea Story, A, 193

HOGG, JAMES. Women Fo'k, The, 197

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Ode for a Social Meeting., 383 One-Hoss Shay, The, 345 Rudolph the Headsman (_This is It_), 293

HOOD, THOMAS. Art of Book-Keeping, The, 305 Dream of Eugene Aram, The, 157 Faithless Nelly Gray, 268 Faithless Sally Brown, 271 Morning Meditations, 261 Nocturnal Sketch, 430

HUGO, VICTOR MARIE. Sack of the City, The (_Translation_), 26

HUNT, LEIGH. Sneezing, 421

INGELOW, JEAN. High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 145

IRWIN, WALLACE. From "Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum", 394

KINGSLEY, CHARLES. Sands o' Dee, The, 181 Three Fishers, The, 183

LAMB, CHARLES. Farewell to Tobacco, A, 389

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE. Iphigeneia and Agamemnon, 3

LANG, ANDREW. Of Blue China, 448

LANIGAN, GEORGE THOMAS. Threnody, A, 451

LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY. Hans Breitmann's Party, 325 Ritter Hugo, 324

LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK. On an Old Muff, 235

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Wreck of the Hesperus, The, 186

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. America (_A Fable for Critics_), 337 Grave-Yard, The (_A Fable for Critics_), 261 What Mr. Robinson Thinks (_Biglow Papers_), 339

MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD. Roman Father's Sacrifice, The (_Virginia_), 16

MAGINN, WILLIAM. Irishman and the Lady, The, 320

MOORE, THOMAS. Nonsense, 455 Orator Puff, 273

NEWELL, EGBERT HENRY (_Orpheus C. Kerr_). Poems for a National Anthem, 415

O'BRIEN, FITZ-JAMES. Second Mate, The, 189

OGDEN, EVA L. Sea, The, 227

O'KEEFFE, JOHN. "I am a friar of orders gray" (_Robin Hood_), 247

PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD. Lucius Junius Brutus over the body of Lucretia (_Brutus_), 14

PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH. Belle of the Ball, The, 207

PUNCH. Collegian to his Bride, The, 434

PUNCH'S "POETICAL COOKERY BOOK." Roasted Sucking-Pig, 385

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB. Griggsby's Station, 349

ROCHE, JAMES JEFFREY. V-A-S-E-, The, 446

ROGERS, SAMUEL. Ginevra, 81

RUSSELL, IRWIN. De Fust Banjo, 377 Nebuchadnezzar, 380

SAXE, JOHN GODFREY. Echo, 211 Proud Miss MacBride, The, 228 Railroad Rhyme, 431

SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON. Diver, The (_Translation_), 44

SCOLLARD, CLINTON. Khamsin, 42

SCOTT, DUNCAN CAMPBELL. At the Cedars, 178

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Antony's Oration (_Julius Cæsar_), 20 Dagger of the Mind, A (_Macbeth_), 120 Murder, The (_Macbeth_), 122 Othello's Remorse (_Othello_), 67

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Trial of Beatrice (_The Cenci_), 68

SMITH, HORACE. Gouty Merchant and the Stranger, The, 275

SMITH, SYDNEY. Recipe for Salad, A, 387

SOUTHEY, CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES. Young Gray Head, The, 132

SOUTHEY, ROBERT. God's Judgment on a wicked Bishop, 52 Well of St. Keyne, The, 204

STANTON, FRANK LEBBY. Plantation Ditty, A (_Comes One with a Song_), 376

STEPHEN, JAMES KENNETH. Lapsus Calami, 422

STERLING, JOHN. Rose and the Gauntlet, The, 131

STILL, JOHN. Good Ale, 248

STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY. Sea, The, 192

SWIFT, JONATHAN. Tonis ad Resto Mare, 319 Vowels, The: An Enigma, 311

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Nephelidia, 411

SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON. Sacrifice of Polyxena, The (_Greek of Euripides_), 5

TAYLOR, JEFFREYS. Milkmaid, The, 259

TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD. Rizpah, 151

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Little Billee, 296 Sorrows of Werther, 204

WHEWELL, WILLIAM. Physics, 434

WILKINS, WILLIAM, In the Engine-Shed, 165

WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER. Parrhasius, 8

WILLSON, ARABELLA M. To the "Sextant", 355

WOLCOTT, OR WOLCOT, JOHN (_Peter Pindar_). Pilgrims and the Peas, The, 249 Razor-Seller, The, 287

ANONYMOUS. Belagholly Days, 420 Cosmic Egg, The, 436 Drummer-Boy's Burial, The, 172 Echo and the Lover, 210 Fine old English Gentleman, The, 255 King John and the Abbot of Canterbury, 241 Life's Love, 382 Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon, 453 Modern Hiawatha, The, 414 Modern House that Jack Built, The, 396 My Love, 427 Mystified Quaker in New York, The, 352 Perils of Thinking, 380 Saddened Tramp, A, 395 Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes, 239 Siege of Belgrade, 426 Swell's Soliloquy, The, 341 Too Great a Sacrifice, 394 Twa Corbies, The, 126 Vicar of Bray, The, 251 Woman, 197

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