LINES TO MISS FLORENCE HUNTINGTON.
Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy, Shall we seek for communion of souls Where the deep Mississippi meanders, Or the distant Saskatchewan rolls?
Ah no,—for in Maine I will find thee A sweetly sequestrated nook, Where the far winding Skoodoowabskooksis Conjoins with the Skoodoowabskook.
There wander two beautiful rivers, With many a winding and crook; The one is the Skoodoowabskooksis, The other—the Skoodoowabskook.
Ah, sweetest of haunts! though unmentioned In geography, atlas, or book, How fair is the Skoodoowabskooksis, When joining the Skoodoowabskook!
Our cot shall be close by the waters Within that sequestrated nook— Reflected in Skoodoowabskooksis And mirrored in Skoodoowabskook.
You shall sleep to the music of leaflets, By zephyrs in wantonness shook, And dream of the Skoodoowabskooksis, And, perhaps, of the Skoodoowabskook.
When awaked by the hens and the roosters, Each morn, you shall joyously look On the junction of Skoodoowabskooksis With the soft gliding Skoodoowabskook.
Your food shall be fish from the waters, Drawn forth on the point of a hook, From murmuring Skoodoowabskookis, Or wandering Skoodoowabskook!
You shall quaff the most sparkling of water, Drawn forth from a silvery brook Which flows to the Skoodoowabskooksis, And then to the Skoodoowabskook!
And you shall preside at the banquet, And I will wait on thee as cook; And we'll talk of the Skoodoowabskooksis, And sing of the Skoodoowabskook!
Let others sing loudly of Saco, Of Quoddy, and Tattamagouche, Of Kennebeccasis, and Quaco, Of Merigonishe, and Buctouche,
Of Nashwaak, and Magaguadavique, Or Memmerimammericook,— There's none like the Skoodoowabskooksis, Excepting the Skoodoowabskook!
ANONYMOUS.
V. NONSENSE. ————
NONSENSE.
Good reader, if you e'er have seen, When Phœbus hastens to his pillow, The mermaids with their tresses green Dancing upon the western billow; If you have seen at twilight dim, When the lone spirit's vesper hymn Floats wild along the winding shore, The fairy train their ringlets weave Glancing along the spangled green; I you have seen all this, and more— God bless me! what a deal you've seen!
THOMAS MOORE.
THE PURPLE COW.
I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I rather see than be one.
GELETT BURGESS.
PSYCHOLOPHON. [Supposed to be translated from the Old Parsee.]
Twine then the rays Round her soft Theban tissues! All will be as She says, When that dead past reissues. Matters not what nor where, Hark, to the moon's dim cluster! How was her heavy hair Lithe as a feather duster! Matters not when nor whence; Flittertigibbet! Sound makes the song, not sense, Thus I inhibit!
GELETT BURGESS.
THE BAKER'S TALE. FROM "THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK"
They roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice— They roused him with mustard and cress— They roused him with jam and judicious advice— They set him conundrums to guess.
When at length he sat up and was able to speak, His sad story he offered to tell; And the Bellman cried "Silence! Not even a shriek!" And excitedly tingled his bell.
There was silence supreme! Not a shriek, not a scream, Scarcely even a howl or a groan, As the man they called "Ho!" told his story of woe In an antediluvian tone.
My father and mother were honest though poor—" "Skip all that!" cried the Bellman in haste. "If it once become dark, there's no chance of a Snark— We have hardly a minute to waste!"
"I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, "And proceed without further remark To the day when you took me aboard of your ship To help you in hunting the Snark.
"A dear uncle of mine (after whom I was named) Remarked, when I bade him farewell—" "Oh, skip your dear uncle!" the Bellman exclaimed, As he angrily tingled his bell.
"He remarked to me then," said that mildest of men, "'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right: Fetch it home by all means—you may serve it with greens, And it's handy for striking a light.
"'You may seek it with thimbles—and seek it with care; You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway-share; You may charm it with smiles and soap—'"
("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold In a hasty parenthesis cried, "That's exactly the way I have always been told That the capture of Snarks should be tried!")
"'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! For then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!'
"It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul, When I think of my uncle's last words: And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!
"It is this, it is this—" "We have had that before!" The Bellman indignantly said. And the Baker replied, "Let me say it once more. It is this, it is this that I dread!
"I engage with the Snark—every night after dark— In a dreamy, delirious fight: I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes, And I use it for striking a light:
"But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day, In a moment (of this I am sure), I shall softly and suddenly vanish away— And the notion I cannot endure!"
CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON (Lewis Carroll).
JABBERWOCKY.
'T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!
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.

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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, LAMAN.  
  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, 294
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 Tim, 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), 267
  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, 44
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, 212
  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, A, 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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