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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)

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Number of Chapters: 123

Length: 05 hours and 35 minutes

Language: English

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

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Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes by Anonymous (Craig Franklin)
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by Anonymous (Group)
Gluggity Glug: From 'The Myrtle and the Vine' by George Colman the Younger (Leanne Yau)
I Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'Keeffe (Jason in Panama)
Good Ale by John Still (Leanne Yau)
The Pilgrims and the Peas by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (Group)
The Vicar of Bray by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)
Hudibras' Sword and Dagger: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Dr. Samuel Butler (Sonia)
The Fine Old English Gentleman by Anonymous (Foon)
Toby Tosspot by George Colman the Younger (Group)
The Milkmaid by Jeffreys Taylor (Leanne Yau)
Morning Meditations by Thomas Hood (Craig Franklin)
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith (Leanne Yau)
Old Grimes by Albert G. Greene (Tomas Peter)
Elegy on Madam Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith (Foon)
The Grave-Yard: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell (Tomas Peter)
Faithless Nelly Gray (A Pathetic Ballad) by Thomas Hood (Group)
Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood (Group)
Orator Puff by Thomas Moore (Group)
The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger by Horace Smith (Group)
The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper (Group)
Epigrams by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Foon)
The Razor-Seller by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (Group)
Paper (A Conversational Pleasantry) by Benjamin Franklin (Craig Franklin)
Epitaph: For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, Lost at Waterloo by George Canning (Tomas Peter)
Rudolph the Headsman: From 'This Is It' by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Group)
Song of One Eleven Years in Prison by George Canning (Tomas Peter)
Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray (Group)
Captain Reece by William Schwenck Gilbert (Group)
The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell': From 'The Bab Ballads' by William Schwenck Gilbert (Group)
The Art of Book-Keeping by Thomas Hood (Tomas Peter)
Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns (Leanne Yau)
To the Terrestrial Globe (By a Miserable Wretch) by William Schwenck Gilbert (Jason in Panama)
The Nose and the Eyes by William Cowper (Leanne Yau)
The Vowels: An Enigma by Jonathan Swift (Leanne Yau)
Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck (Leanne Yau)
The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough (Sonia)
The New Church Organ by Will Carleton (Sonia)
Tonis ad Resto Mare by Jonathan Swift (Leanne Yau)
The Irishman and the Lady by William Maginn (Tomas Peter)
The Recruit by Robert William Chambers (Tomas Peter)
Ritter Hugo by Charles Godfrey Leland (Group)
Hans Breitmann's Party by Charles Godfrey Leland (Tomas Peter)
Leedle Yawcob Strauss by Charles Follen Adams (Leanne Yau)
Dot Long-Handled Dipper by Charles Follen Adams (Sonia)
The Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.) (Group)
America: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell (Leanne Yau)
What Mr. Robinson Thinks: From 'The Biglow Papers,' No. III by James Russell Lowell (Craig Franklin)
Swell's Soliloquy by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)
The Compliment by Eugene Field (Leanne Yau)
The Nantucket Skipper by James Thomas Fields (Group)
The One-Hoss Shay; or, The Deacon's Masterpiece (A Logical Story) by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Group)
Griggsby's Station by James Whitcomb Riley (Craig Franklin)
He'd Had No Show by Sam Walter Foss (Group)
The Mystified Quaker in New York by Anonymous (Group)
To the 'Sextant' by Arabella M. Willson (Foon)
Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle: Pike County Ballads by John Hay (Sonia)
To the Pliocene Skull (A Geological Address) by Bret Harte (Group)
Little Breeches: A Pike County View of Special Providence by John Hay (Jason in Panama)
Jim by Bret Harte (Jason in Panama)
Banty Tim by John Hay (Foon)
Dow's Flat by Bret Harte (Craig Franklin)
The Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte (Jason in Panama)
Plain Language from Truthful James (Popularly Known as 'The Heathen Chinee') by Bret Harte (Leanne Yau)
A Plantation Ditty by Frank Lebby Stanton (Leanne Yau)
De Fust Banjo by Irwin Russell (Group)
Perils of Thinking by Anonymous (Jason in Panama)
Nebuchadnezzar by Irwin Russell (Foon)
A Life's Love by Anonymous (Craig Franklin)
Darwin by Mortimer Collins (Craig Franklin)
Ode for a Social Meeting (With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller) by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sonia)
Hollow Hospitality: From 'Satires,' Book III, Satire 3 by Dr. Joseph Hall (Sonia)
A Recipe: Roasted Sucking-Pig (from 'Punch's Poetical Cookery Book') by Anonymous (Foon)
A Recipe for Salad by Sydney Smith (Leanne Yau)
Ode to Tobacco by Charles S. Calverley (Tomas Peter)
A Farewell to Tobacco by Charles Lamb (Foon)
Too Great a Sacrifice by Anonymous (Leanne Yau)
From 'Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum' by Wallace Irwin (Tomas Peter)
A Saddened Tramp by Anonymous (Jason in Panama)
The Modern House That Jack Built by Anonymous (Foon)
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder by George Canning (Group)
Deborah Lee by William H. Burleigh (Leanne Yau)
The Cock and the Bull by Charles Stuart Calverley (Sonia)
The Auld Wife by Charles Stuart Calverley (Group)
Lovers, and a Reflection by Charles Stuart Calverley (Sonia)
Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Sonia)
The Arab by Charles Stuart Calverley (Sonia)
The Modern Hiawatha by Anonymous (Foon)
Poems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem by Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr) (Group)
Belagcholly Days by Anonymous (Leanne Yau)
Sneezing by Leigh Hunt (Sonia)
To My Nose by Alfred A. Forrester (Alfred Crowquill) (Sonia)
Lapsus Calami by James Kenneth Stephen (Sonia)
A Conservative by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Leanne Yau)
'Forever' by Charles Stuart Calverley (Sonia)
Siege of Belgrade by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)
My Love by Anonymous (Leanne Yau)
Ode to the Human Heart by Laman Blanchard (Craig Franklin)
Metrical Feet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Tomas Peter)
Nocturnal Sketch (Blank Verse in Rhyme) by Thomas Hood (Group)
Railroad Rhyme by John Godfrey Saxe (Craig Franklin)
Physics (The Unconscious Poetizing of a Philosopher) by William Whewell (Foon)
The Collegian to His Bride: Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form by Anonymous (Craig Franklin)
The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring by Henry Howard Brownell (Leanne Yau)
The Cosmic Egg by Anonymous (Foon)
The Hen by Matthias Claudius (Group)
Ode—To the Roc by William John Courthope (Sonia)
Motherhood by Charles Stuart Calverley (Leanne Yau)
Disaster by Charles Stuart Calverley (Foon)
Lines Written in an Album by Willis Gaylord (Tomas Peter)
On the Brink by Charles Stuart Calverley (Leanne Yau)
The V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey Roche (Group)
Larks and Nightingales by Nathan Haskell Dole (Leanne Yau)
Of Blue China by Andrew Lang (Leanne Yau)
A Riddle: The Letter 'H' by Catherine Fanshawe (Craig Franklin)
A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan (Sonia)
Lines to Miss Florence Huntington by Anonymous (Sonia)
Nonsense by Thomas Moore (Craig Franklin)
The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess (Tomas Peter)
Psycholophon by Gelett Burgess (Tomas Peter)
The Baker's Tale: From 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (Group)
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (Leanne Yau)
For a Novel of Hall Caine's (After Kipling) by Robert Bridges (Droch) (Sonia)
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