Chapter XXXIX: Part I (19)

_The Curfeu tolls the knell of parting Day_ 2
The Curfew tolls the hour of closing gates 3
Retirement’s hour proclaims the tolling Bell 5
The shrill bell rings the knell of “Curtain rise” 6
St. Paul’s proclaims the solemn midnight hour 7
The Courts are shut--departed every Judge 9
Gazettes now toll the melancholy knell 10
Now sinks the sun within the azure main 10
The clock bell tolls the hour of early day 11
The prompter rings the lofty curtain down 12
The clock proclaims the welcome dinner hour 13
The watchman drawls the hour of dawning day 14
The Chancellor has passed the stern decree 15
The turnkey rings the bell for shutting out 16
The surly crier rings his nightly knell 17
Great Tom now sounds the close of busy day 18
St. Dunstan’s bells proclaim departing day 19
The moon slow setting sends a parting ray 20
The chapel bell, with hollow mournful sound 22
The _Bow-bell_ tolls the knell of Bow-fair fun 23
My Lord now quits his venerable seat 23
The twilight curtains round the busy day 24
The pealing clock proclaims the close of day 24
The Judges toll the knell of Burdett’s fame 24
The vacant seats proclaim the _parting_ day 26
Improvement tolls the knell of what, of yore 26
The lamps refract the gleam of parting day 27
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day 28
The wharf-bell tolls the knell of starting steam 28
The curtain falls, the signal all is o’er 29
Saint Martin tolls the hour of long past day 30
The sexton tolls the knell till parting day 30
St. Clement’s tolls the knell of parting day 30
The Station clock proclaims the close of day 31
The muffin-bell proclaims the parting day 32
The curlew rolls amidst the darting spray 33
The big clock tolls the knell of parting day 33
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day 34
The Park proclaims the season’s had its day 34
The church clock strikes the knell of parting day 35
The builder tolls the knell of Cremorne’s day 36
The trumpets sound the coming of the Judge 36
Farewell old friend, and memory ever dear 37
They think to toll the knell of prisoned Gray 38
The turret-clock proclaims the hour eleven 38
The clock-tow’r tolls the bell of coming day 38
The candles tell the close of parting day 40
The pealing clock proclaims the close of day 41
The church-bells peal the message 41
The clanging crow-bar rings the pile’s decay 42
The piano sounds the knell of parting day 42
Rads toll the knell of England’s passing day 42
Le rappel a marqué le jour en son déclin 45
The dustman tolls the coming of the morn 46
The porter tolls the bell on starting day 47
The whistle shrieks the knell of parting day 48
The Curfew tolls the hour of locking up 317
The gard’ner rings the bell at close of day 317
The beaux are jogging on the pictured floor 318
The shops are closed--the sign of closing day 318
The sound of gunfire marked the closing day 319
The bell now tolls, soon after dawn of day 320

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_Ode on the Spring_ 48
Ode on the Spring, by a Man of Fashion 48
Ode on the closing of the House of Commons 49

_Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat_ 49
’Twas in a new constructed boat. 1805 50
’Twas on the pavement of a Lane. 1800 50
’Twas on the lofty Treasury’s side. 1762 51
Ode on the Amputation of a Cat’s Tail. 1795 51

_Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College._ 1747 51
Ode on Ranelagh. 1775 52
Ode to Sir John Soane. 1824 53
Ode on the Distant Prospect of a Good Dinner. _Blackwood’s
Magazine._ 1828 53
Ode on a Prospect of the Abolition of Eton Montem. 1846 54
Ode on a Close Prospect of Eton. 1882 54

_The Bard._ A Pindaric Ode 54
The Bard. A Covent Garden Ode. 1809 56
The Union (Cambridge). 1817 57
The Barber. _Thomas Erskine._ 1824 58
“Ruin seize thee, ruthless Earl.” _The World._ Competition
Parody. 1879 60
“Ruin seize thee, reckless guide” 60
“Plague upon thee, Earl of B----.” _F. B. Doveton._ 1880 61
The Bostonian Prophet. 1779 61
Parody in the Life of Mrs. M. A. Clarke. 1809. (Connected
with the Duke of York) 61

_The Descent of Odin_ 61
The Descent of Timothy. _J. H. Beattie._ 1794 61
The Triumphs of Owen. _Shirley Brooks._ 1861 62

Gray’s _Pindaric Odes_ 63
Ode to Oblivion. } By _G. Colman_ 63
Ode to Obscurity. } _and R. Lloyd_ 63

_Ode for Music._ Cambridge. 1769 63
Two Travesties. 1786 63

_A Long Story_ 64
A sequel. _John Penn_ 64
A sequel. _Henry James Pye_ 64
Latin translations of Gray’s Poems. 1775 64
Mason’s continuation of Gray’s Ode 64
Runic Odes, in the manner of Mr. GRAY. _Thomas James
Mathias._ 1781 64
Ode in imitation of Gray. _C. M. Fanshawe_ 102

John Home.

_My Name is Norval._ (From “Douglas”) 206
My name is Moses. _J. P. Roberdeau_ 206
My name’s the _Doctor_. 1819 207
My name is Scragg’em 207
My name’s _Tom Dibdin_. _The Times._ 1803 207
My name is Whitbread. _Morning Post._ 1812 208
My name is Canning. _The Mélange._ 1834 208
My name is Lardner. 1831 208
“My name is Norval,” burlesqued 208
My name is Randolph. _Figaro._ 1886 209
My name is Balfour. _Fun._ 1887 209

Leigh Hunt.

_Abou Ben Adhem_ 144
Making up the Slate 144
Ben Disraeli. 1867 144
The Bluecoat Boy 144
Abou Ben Folsom 144
Adam Mac Adam 144
Abou Ben Butler. 1886 145
Francesca Da Rimini. _Bon Gaultier Ballads_ 145
A Nursery Ode. _Warreniana_ 145
Carlotta Grisi 145
Song of October 146
Manners (Lord John) and Civility 146

Matthew Gregory Lewis.

_Alonzo the Brave, and the fair Imogine_ 137
Giles Jollup the grave, and Brown Sally Green 138
Pilgarlic the Brave, and Brown Celestine 136
St. George and Caroline. 1820 139
Colenso the Brave. _Shirley Brooks._ 1865 139
Alfonso of Spain. 1875 140
A Terrible Tale. _The Referee._ 1884 140
Fire and Ale. _Rejected Addresses._ 1812 141
Fire and Water. 1887 142
Peggy the Gay, and the Bold Roger Gray. _The True
Briton._ 1799 321
“A Bulldog so fierce, and a Spaniel so meek” 321
The Little Green Man 321
“Lemona was daughter of Hudda the Brave” 321

_The Erl King and the Cloud King_ 142
The Cinder King 142
The Fire King, the Water King, and the Cotton King. 1832. 142
The old Hag in a Red Cloak. 1802 142
The Squeaking Ghost. 1804 321

Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton.

A Midnight Meditation. _W. E. Aytoun_ 222

_The New Timon._ 1846 223
The New Timon and the Poets. _A. Tennyson_ 223
O, Darling room, my heart’s delight 223
Lord Lytton’s foppery 224

_The Lady of Lyons._ 1838 224
The Bellows Mender. By _W. T. Moncrieff_ 224
_Melnotte’s Speech on his (Visionary) Palace_ 224
A Parody from “Cinderella.” _Albert Smith_ 224
A Parody from H. J. Byron’s burlesque “The very latest
Edition of the Lady of Lyons” 225
The Model Health Palace 225
The Lady of Lyons Married and Settled. By _H. C. Merivale_ 225

_The Sea Captain; or, the Birthright._ 1839 225
Thackeray’s burlesque criticism on the play 226

_The Rightful Heir._ Lyceum Theatre. 1868 228
The Frightful Hair; or, Who Shot the Dog? 228
The Right-Fall Hair. _H. T. Arden_ 228
The very last Days of Pompeii. _R. Reece_ 228
An Epigram. _W. S. Landor_ 228

Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay.

Lord Macaulay at tea 103

_The Armada._ 1832 146
A Conclusion by Dr. W. C. Bennett 146
A Conclusion by the Rev. H. C. Leonard 147
The Feast of Lanterns. _Shirley Brooks._ 1863 149
The Lord Mayor’s Show. _The World._ 1879 150
On Gladstone’s Midlothian Speeches. 1884 151

_Horatius_ 151
The Fight of the Crescent. Cambridge. 1846 153
Marcus Curtius, the Honest Lawyer. _E. Allen_ 154
Gustavus of Drury Lane. _E. H. Yates._ 1855 155
Johnson. _E. H. Yates._ 1856 156
Sibthorpius, _Puppet Showman’s Album_. 1848 159
The Fight for the Championship (Thomas Sayers and Heenan,
1860). _H. C. Pennell._ 160
The Fight of Sayerius and Heenanius. 1860 161
The Battle of the Bridge (Blackfriars). 1869 162
A Lay of Ancient Stoke. 1875 163
Match between Dryburgh and Sludgeborough. _Pastime._ 1883 164
The Battle of the Asses’ Bridge. _J. M. Lowry._ 165
Harcourtius of Derbiae. _Truth._ 1884 166
The Battle of the Institute (of Mechanical Engineers,
November 5, 1875) 168
A Lay of Modern England. _Auberon Herbert. Pall Mall
Gazette._ 1884 169
Lars Porsenna. _College Rhymes._ 1855 169
Mustering of the Hobbies. 1847 170
The Sibylline Books. 1856 170
How Titus Manlius Macauleius was made a Patrician. 1857 170
The Battle of Lake Glenlivit. _S. Lover._ 1857 170
Lay of Modern England. _Punch._ 1866 171
The Lay of Mr. Colt. _Bon Gaultier_. 171
The Great Durbar. _Lyrics and Lays._ 1867 172
Before the Comitia. 1873 172
The Dauntless Three. A Town and Gown Row. 1874 172
Thanatos. By the Ghost of Macaulay. 1875 173
Fifth of November. Town and Gown Row. By _Adon_. 1874 173
Christ Church Beseiged. 1877 173
Lay of the Last Commemoration Dinner. 1880 174
Obstruction Utilised. 1881 174
How Horatius kept the Bridge. _The Blue._ 1881 175
A Lay of Modern Hammersmith. 1882 175
How Gladstone won the Election. 1885 175
Gladstonius. 1885 177
“Now Joseph C. of Birmingham.” 1885 177
A Lay of Modern London. 1880 177
Volumnia 177

_The Battle of the Lake Regillus_ 178
The Chiswick Flower Fête. 1846 179
The Battle of the Vestries. _The Tomahawk._ 179
A Lay of Modern London. 1872 180
The Football Match. 1878 180
A Prophecy of Capers. _Fun._ 181
The Battle of Lake Mort. (The Boat race) 182
The Dioscuri in Egypt. 1884 183
In the Arena. 1888 183

_Henry of Navarre_ 184
The War of the Normas. (On Jenny Lind and Grisi). _Man in
the Moon._ 1847 184
The Lord Mayor’s Show. 1884 184
Ireland, 1890. _Topical Times._ 1886 184
The Great Rent Case. 1867 185

_Ivry._
Before the Battle. _The Daily News._ 1886 185
Lay of the (Royal) Amphitheatre. 1845 186
A Lay of Modern England. 1847 186
The Inauguration of the Mayor. 1851 186
The City Tournament. _Diogenes._ 1853 187
A Lay of Ancient Rome. _Albert Smith._ 187
Burlington. _J. D. Parley._ 1872 187
Routhe’s Revenge. _Light Green._ 1882 187
The New Naseby 187
Parodies in _Punch_ 188
Landbillia 188
Hibernia 188
Song of December 189
The Laureate’s Tourney. _Bon Gaultier_ 189
A Lay of Modern Exon. Exeter 1879 322

Rev. Thomas Moss.

_The Beggar’s Petition_
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Man. 1769 203
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Goose. 1804 203
Hebrew translation. _Kottabos._ 1881 203
Pity the Sorrows of a third class man. 1845 204
Pity the sorrows of a poor old “Stag.” 1845 204
Pity the sorrows of a poor old bridge. 1846 204
The Begging Imposter’s Petition. 1849 205
Pity the troubles of a poor young Prince. 1850 205
Pity the sorrows of a poor young Girl. 1853 205
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Clerk. 1856 205
Pity the sorrows of an ill-used Man. 1872 206
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Bar. 1874 206

Winthrop Mackworth Praed.

_The Chaunt of the Brazen Head._ 196
The Chaunt of the Political Brazen Head. 1882 196

_Plus de Politique._ 1832 197
A Lyric from Highbury. _Pall Mall._ 1886 197

_A Letter of Advice_ 197
On an Election at the Athenæum. 1888 197

_I remember, I remember._ 1833 198
The Nelson Column Drama. 1843 198
The Farmer’s Corn Law Song. 1846 198
About the Weather 198
The Bankrupt to the Commissioner. 1848 199
Mistletoe Anticipations. _Cuthbert Bede._ 1851 199

_Good Night to the Season_ 199
Good-bye to the Commons. 1880 200
Vale. _Punch._ 1883 200
A Parody from _Life_. 1883 201
A Parody from _Truth_. 1885 201
Farewell to the Season. 1886 201
So the Jubilee’s over! _Truth._ 1887 202
Good-bye to the (Cricketing) Season. _Punch_ 324
To a Jilt 202
“Sleep, Mr. Speaker, ’tis surely fair.” By _W. M. Praed_ 202

Samuel Rogers.

_The Pleasures of Memory._ 1792 316
The Pains of Memory. _P. Bingham._ 1812 316

_On a Tear_ 316
On a Tear. _Fun_ 316

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Forged letters, published in 1852 233
_The Cenci_, performance in 1886 233
The Salacious Shelley Society. _Truth_ 1886 233

_To a Skylark_ 233
To a Bicycle. _Moonshine._ 1885 233

_The Cloud_ 234
The Cloudy. _The World._ 1885 234
The Cloud, from _Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack_ 234
The Other Cloud. _Punch._ 1880 235
Seaward 235
Thrown Out. _Hugh Cayley_ 235
The Tale of the Sensitive “Freak.” _The Umpire_ 236

Horace Smith.

_Address to an Egyptian Mummy_ 236
The Answer of the Egyptian Mummy 237
Lines to the Western Mummy. _Gallaudet_ 238
On Sir Moses Montefiore. _Botcher._ 1884 238
A Parody on Horace Smith’s “George Barnewell.”
By _Shirley Brooks_. 1858 239

William Makepeace Thackeray.

_Violets._ By L. E. L. 212
Cabbages. _W. M. Thackeray_ 212
The Willow Tree. Two versions. _Thackeray_ 213

_There were Three Sailors of Bristol City_ 214
“There were three dwellers in Gotham City.” _Punch._ 1884 214
There were some Commissioners. 1887 214

_Werther had a love for Charlotte_ 215

_Peg of Limavaddy._ 1843 215
A Beautified Being 216
Whiskey, drink divine. 1840 216
Henry (Irving) and Ellen (Terry). 1884 217

_The Battle of Limerick_ 217

The Hampton Court Bicycle Meet. 1880 218

The Battle of O’Brine. _The Globe._ 1887 218

_Love at Two Score_ 219
Love at Sixteen 219
The Snob’s version of the Cane-bottom’d Chair 220

_There was a King of Yvetot_ 220
It was the “crack” news-maker. 1886 220
“Inaugurative Ode” in _The Cornhill Mag._ 220

_When moonlike ore the hazure seas_ 220
The Arcana of Cabinet-making 221
The Ballad of a Rural Pleceman 221
Old Fashioned Fun 222

Edmund Waller.

_Go lovely Rose!_ 210
Go, wedding cake! _Diogenes._ 1853 210
Go, flaunting Rose! _Punch._ 1881 210
Go, my Primrose! _Punch._ 1886 210

_Wanted--a Governess_ 211
Wanted, an Alderman 211
Wanted, an Editor 211

William Wordsworth.

_We are Seven_ 88
The seven new Peers. 1831 88
The Trustee 89
Only seven. _Henry S. Leigh._ 1865 89
They are three. _Shotover Papers._ 1874 90
I’ve got seven. _E. Compton._ 1878 90
Lay by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 1877 91
The Ballad of the ’Bus. 1885 92
They are seven. _Fun._ 1885 92
We are seven. _The Judge._ 1885 92
More than seven 93
We are one 93
We are seven (Irish M.P.’s). 1877 93
They are five. 1877 94
We are seven (Unionists), 1886 94

_Lucy._ 1779 94
On Wordsworth. _Hartley Coleridge_ 94
Jacob. _Phoebe Carey._ 1854 95
Emancipation. _F. B. Doveton._ 95
The Baby’s Debût. _Rejected Addresses._ 1812 95

_The Pet Lamb_ 96
Rink, pretty creature, Rink. _A. W. Mackenzie_ 96

_My Heart leaps up_ 96
A Parody. _William Maginn._ 1820 97
“I met an old man on the road.” 1811 97

_She was a Phantom of delight._ 97
“It was a phantom of delight.” 1886 97
He was a great Panjandrum, quite. 1886 98
Dusty Bob. _Comic Magazine._ 1834 98

_To the Cuckoo_ 98
“O Blythe newspaper! From thy page.” By _F. B. Doveton_ 98

_The Reverie of poor Susan_ 99
The Reverie of a poor Squeezed ’un. 1885 99

_Violets, do what they will_ 99
Fair women win the hearts of men. 1813 99
What women make of men 99
The Yarra-Yarra unvisited. 1872 100

_A Sonnet on the Sonnet_ 100
French translation by M. de St. Beuve 100
Scorn not the Meerschaum 101
Oh! Bull, strong labourer. 1846 101
Billy Routing. _William Maginn_ 101
The Kail Pot. _Blackwood’s Magazine._ 1821 101
Billy Blinn. _William Maginn_ 101
There is a River clear and fair. _C. M. Fanshawe_ 101
Ralph Rattat. 1885 102

_The Poets at tea_ 103
Containing imitations of
Lord Macaulay
Lord Tennyson
A. C. Swinburne
William Cowper
Robert Browning
William Wordsworth
E. A. Poe
D. G. Rossetti
Robert Burns
Walt Whitman
Ode on the Installation of Prince Albert. 1847 106

_Peter Bell_ 104
A parody by Reynolds. 1819 104
A Parody by Shelley 104
The Dead Asses. 1819 104
Benjamin the Waggoner. 1819 105
Lord Byron on “Peter Bell.” 1820 105
“There’s something in a flying horse.”
“There’s something in a stupid ass.”
A mood of my own mind. _T. L. Peacock._ 105
Old Cumberland Pedlar. 1824 105
The Stranger. _James Hogg._ 1816 105
The Flying Tailor. 1816 105
James Rigg. 1816 105
Doctor Pill and Gaffer Quake 105
Tim the Tacket. 1881 106
William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate. 1843 106

POETS OF THE UNITED STATES.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

All or Nothing. By _Bayard Taylor_ 245

_Brahma._ 1857 246
Damn, ah! 246
Mutton 246

Colonel John Hay.

_Jim Bludso_ 246
The Bloomin’ Flower of Rorty Gulch. _Charles H. Ross_ 247
Joseph Swife and Potiphar. _Funny Folks._ 1876 272

_The Mystery of Gilgal_ 247
Big Bill. _Bayard Taylor_ 248

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

_Contentment_ 253
Contentment, a Parody. _St. James’ Gazette_ 253

_The Deacon’s Masterpiece_ 254
Sequel to the “One Hoss Shay.” _C. F. Adams_ 255

_Ode for a Social Meeting_ 255
The Poet at the Breakfast Table. _Funny Folks_ 255
The Psycho-Physical Muse. _Bayard Taylor_ 256
The Wheelless. _J. G. Dalton._ 1880 256

James Russell Lowell.

_The Pious Editor’s Creed_ 248
The Pious Chancellor’s Creed. _Punch._ 1878 249
The Jingo’s Creed. _Funny Folks._ 1879 249
The Unionist Editor’s Creed. _Pall Mall._ 1887 250
Joe Chamberlain to Himself 250
When Doctors Disagree 250

_On Recruiting_ 250
Renegaders. _William Guise._ 1888 251
The Official Explanation. _Chicago News._ 251
Tennyson’s latest. 1882 251
The Saga of Ahab Doolittle. _Bayard Taylor_ 252

_Jonathan to John_ 276

Joaquin Miller.

The Fate of the Frontiersman. _Bayard Taylor_ 270

Edgar Allan Poe.

E. A. Poe at tea 103
Deborah Lee. _American Paper_ 282
Camomile Tea. _Punch’s Almanac._ 1883 283
W. E. G. _Judy._ 1885. 283
Albert McGee. _University News Sheet._ 284
The Swells. _Dramatic College Annual._ 1868 284
The Polls. _St. James’s Gazette._ 1885 285
The Bills. _Funny Folks._ 1886 285
The Sleigh Bells. _Topical Times._ 1886 285
Autumn Bells. _Fun._ 1886 285
The Bells. _C. H. Waring._ 1886 286
The Christmas Party. _American Paper_ 286
The Bills. _The Umpire._ 1888 286
Christmas Bills. _Pippins and Cheese._ 1868 286
The Yells. _John C. Morgan_ 286
An Appeal (Parody of “The Raven.”) Relating to _Ruddigore_.
_Pall Mall Gazette_ 286
An Artist’s Ravin’. _Funny Folks_ 287
_The Weekly Dispatch_ parody competition, October 31, 1886.
Poem by _J. C. Rose_ 288
Poem by _F. B. Doveton_ 288
“Joe” a Chamberlainian Dream. _Pall Mall Gazette._ 1887 288
The Yankee Cryptogram. _Topical Times._ 1887 289
A Vision. _Prison Poems_ by T. D. Sullivan, M.P. 290
Tullamore, _The Weekly Dispatch_. 1888 291
A list of Parodies of “The Raven.” 291
The Dutchman and the Raven 322
The Whitechapel Murders. _Marcus_ 323
Christmas Boxes. _Moonshine._ 1887 291
The Ladies, after Dinner 292
To William (Gladstone). _Saturday Review_ 292
Leonainie. _The Daily News._ 1886 292
The Lost Soul. _Strange Visitors._ 1869 292

Walt Whitman.

_Song of Myself; Miracles; On Thanksgiving Day_ 256
To Walt Whitman in America. _A. C. Swinburne_ 257
A Parody from _Once a Week_. 1868 257
Walt Whitman on Oxford. _Shotover Papers._ 257
Home--sweet Home. _H. C. Bunner_ 258
This is a Poem. _The Cambridge Meteor._ 1882 258
Camerados. _Bayard Taylor_ 258
A Parody from San Francisco 258
A Parody from “The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys” 259
A Parody from _Judy_. 1884 259
Whitman in London. _Punch._ 1887 260
A Pension for Walt Whitman 260
St. Smith of Utah. _Walter Parke_ 260
Poem of the Ride. _J. G. Dalton._ 1880 262
Pods of Pease. _Rejected Tercentenary Songs_ 262
A Mad Parson. _Julian Sturgis._ 1884 262
Walt Whitman at tea 103

John Greenleaf Whittier.

_Maud Müller_ 239
Mrs. Judge Jenkins, a sequel. _Bret. Harte_ 240
Kate Ketchem. _Phœbe Carey_ 240
Maud Müller in Dutch 241
The Maud Müller (_Improved_) 242
Maud Müller in Urbe 242
The Modern Maud Müller. Cincinnati Paper 242
Maud Müller and the Judge 243
Maud Müller on the Ice. _Brooklyn Eagle_ 243
Miss Müller. _Funny Folks._ 1884 243

_Barbara Fritchie_ 244
Barbara Fritchie in Dutch 244
Hiram Hover. _The Echo Club Papers_ 245

MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN POEMS.

_Beautiful Snow._ JAMES M. WATSON 268
A History of the Poem by James Hogg 268
Another version by Major Sigourney 269
London Snow. _The Globe._ 1886 269
That Beautiful Kiss 269
A Critique on Adelina Patti 209
“The Beautiful Snow,” extra verse. _W. F. Fox_ 323
The Gallant Three Hundred. (On the disputed authorship
of the poem) 323
Der Good-lookin Shnow 323

_By the Sad Sea Waves._ WALTER PARKE. 1874 271
His Mother-in-Law. _San Francisco News Letter_ 272

_Falling leaf and fading tree_ 265
Easy chair and soft young man 265

_Hans Breitmann’s Barty._ C. G. LELAND 270
The Fate of the Four 270
Her washing ended with the day. _Phœbe Carey_ 273

_Leedle Yawcob Strauss._ CHARLES F. ADAMS 267
Leedle Eduard Strauss. _Punch._ 1885 267
On the Pier. _W. Wilkins_ in _Kottabos_ 272

_Sheridan’s Ride._ THOMAS B. READ 262
Schlosser’s Ride 263
Schneider’s Ride 263
A Sylvan Scene. _Bayard Taylor_ 263

_Strange Visitors._ Published in New York. 1869 273

_Trust not Man, for he’ll deceive you!_ 263
Trust not _woman_, she’ll beguile you? 264

_Temptation and Explanation._ E. W. WILCOX 264
A Newspaper Parody 264

_The Night before Christmas._ C. C. MOORE 265
The Night after Christmas 265

_The Picket Guard._ THAD. OLIVER 266
Along the St. Lawrence. _New York World_ 266

_The Lessons of the Birds._ G. W. DOANE 267
What is that, Mother? _E. Lawson Finerty_ 267

_You kissed me._ JOSEPHINE HUNT. 1857 264
You kicked me. 1881 264

_Woodman, spare that tree._ G. P. MORRIS 271
The Woodman’s reply. _Godfrey Turner_ 271

NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A List of the Principal Songs 274

_Yankee Doodle._ 1755 274
The origin of Yankee Doodle. _G. P. Morris_ 275
“The Mighty Brougham’s come to Town.” Liverpool
Election. 1812 275
An Appendix to “Yankee Doodle.” 1851 275
“Punch” on the Civil War. 1861 276
Jonathan to John. _James R. Lowell_ 276
“Yankee Doodle” from the Southern point of view 277
A Yankee Soldier’s Song 278
Cock-a-Doodle. _Truth._ 1882 278
Randy Churchill. _American Paper._ 1887 278

_John Brown’s Body_ 278
A Radical Song. _D. Evans_ 278

_Three Hundred Thousand more._ JOHN S. GIBBONS. July 16, 1862 279
To Abraham Lincoln. _Shirley Brooks_ 279

_Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! the Boys are marching!_ 279
A political parody. _Truth._ 1886 279

_My Maryland._ JAMES R. RANDALL. 1861 280
The Karamanian Exile. _J. C. Mangan_ 280
A Northern States parody of “Maryland” 281
A Liberal Lyric. _England._ 1884 281
Yankee-Land. _J. G. Dalton._ 1885 281
Canada, my Canada. _The Brooklyn Eagle_ 323

_Hail, Columbia._ OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 282

CONTENTS

VOLUMES I., II., III. and IV. PARODIES.

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VOLUME I.