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The PlayedOut Humorist | 26 |
PAGE | 29 |
The Ultimate | 32 |
The Fishermans Chant | 37 |
The Height of the Ridiculous | 38 |
Early Rising | 44 |
Lying | 45 |
The Truth About Horace | 50 |
Disaster | 469 |
Whenceness of the Which | 476 |
The Modern Hiawatha | 482 |
How Often | 489 |
Gillian | 511 |
Styx River Anthology | 521 |
Song of the Springtide | 527 |
How the Daughters Come Down | 533 |
Cupid | 56 |
Companions | 63 |
Strictly GermProof | 68 |
The Pope | 70 |
On a Deaf Housekeeper | 76 |
William Johnston | 80 |
Thomas Moore | 86 |
Salad | 93 |
Song | 99 |
As to the Weather | 107 |
Hiram Hover | 113 |
Chorus of Women | 126 |
A | 132 |
Wing Tee | 139 |
Thackeray | 140 |
Tu Quoque | 146 |
My Mistresss Boots | 153 |
Noras | 159 |
Larrie ODee | 165 |
The Belle of the Ball | 171 |
Buxom Joan | 179 |
False Love and True Logic | 183 |
Imagiste Love Lines | 188 |
Are Women Fair? | 189 |
Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles | 195 |
Lay of the Deserted Influenzaed | 202 |
The Secret Combination | 209 |
SATIRE | 224 |
The Recruit | 230 |
Cacoethes Scribendi | 237 |
The | 248 |
The Three Black Crows | 254 |
A Modest | 260 |
The Devonshire Lane | 266 |
Holy Willies Prayer | 272 |
Trust in Women | 276 |
Dirge | 280 |
The Friar of Orders Gray | 282 |
That Texan Cattle | 288 |
The Candidates Creed | 294 |
Father Molloy | 307 |
Thursday | 313 |
After Horace | 320 |
John Grumlie | 326 |
Matthew Prior | 333 |
The Imaginative Crisis | 338 |
Without and Within | 350 |
Fin de Siecle | 357 |
James Russell Lowell | 360 |
The Fool and the Poet | 363 |
Lord Chesterfield | 369 |
Imitation | 375 |
Dodge | 376 |
am | 379 |
The Rejected National Hymns | 387 |
The Cantelope | 393 |
Merivale | 409 |
Fresto Furioso | 418 |
A Ballad | 426 |
Imitation of Walt Whitman | 434 |
A Ballade of BalladeMongers | 441 |
N P Willis | 447 |
William E Aytoun | 454 |
Up the Spout | 463 |
Aytoun and Martin | 542 |
E Lemke | 545 |
The Wofle New Ballad of Jane | 552 |
Misadventures at Margate | 558 |
The Diverting History of John | 564 |
Paddy ORafther | 571 |
The Jester Condemned to Death | 578 |
The Well of St Keyne | 584 |
The Knight and the Lady | 590 |
An Eastern Question | 598 |
The Goose | 611 |
Robinson Crusoes Story | 617 |
John Wolcot | 623 |
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell | 632 |
Dighton is Engaged | 635 |
The Story of Prince Agib | 641 |
Plain Language from | 648 |
G E Farrow | 684 |
Darius Green and His Flying | 690 |
A Great Fight | 697 |
Unknown | 702 |
TRIBUTE | 708 |
The Ballad of Bouillabaisse | 714 |
The Baldheaded Tyrant | 720 |
The Happy | 724 |
A Farewell to Tobacco | 726 |
Stanzas to Pale | 732 |
Unknown | 747 |
Mary Mapes Dodge | 759 |
Albert Gorton Greene | 768 |
A Nocturnal Sketch | 769 |
John Milton | 781 |
25 | 783 |
Unknown | 787 |
Tim Turpin | 795 |
Deaths Ramble | 801 |
Sir David Lindesay | 807 |
The Siege of Belgrade | 813 |
Theodore Hook | 829 |
Carolyn Wells | 835 |
NONSENSE | 841 |
The Lugubrious WhingWhang | 858 |
The Pobble Who Has no Toes | 865 |
Humpty Dumptys Recitation | 872 |
Uffia | 877 |
J W Foley | 881 |
William Sawyer | 885 |
NATURAL HISTORY | 887 |
Of Baiting the Lion | 893 |
Nirvana | 900 |
The Great Black Crow | 908 |
The | 914 |
The Ballad of the Emeu | 921 |
The Naughty Darkey | 927 |
A Visit From St Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore | 935 |
Leedle Yawcob Strauss Charles Follen Adams | 940 |
The Comical Girl M Pelham | 946 |
The Kilkenny Cats Unknown | 950 |
Want to Sit Next to Emily Ogden Nash | 957 |
The Penitent Edna St Vincent Millay | 961 |
To th Minstrel Girl T A Daly | 967 |
Our Friend the Egg Clarence Day | 971 |
Marco Polo Clarence Day | 972 |
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