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INDEX.

INDEX.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SUBJECT. AUTHOR.

To my Empty Purse Chaucer
To Chloe Peter Pindar
To a Fly Peter Pindar
Man may be Happy Peter Pindar
Address to the Toothache Burns
The Pig Southey
Snuff Southey
Farewell to Tobacco Lamb
Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos Byron
The Lisbon Packet Byron
To Fanny Moore
Young Jessie Moore
Rings and Seals Moore
Nets and Cages Moore
Salad Sydney Smith
My Letters Barham
The Poplar Barham
Spring Hood
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy Hood
Schools and School-fellows Praed
The Vicar Praed
The Bachelor's Cane-bottomed Chair Thackeray
Stanzas to Pale Ale Punch
Children must be paid for Punch
The Musquito Bryant
To the Lady in the Chemisette with Black Buttons Willis
Come out, Love Willis
The White Chip Hat Willis
You know if it was you Willis
The Declaration Willis
Love in a Cottage Willis
To Helen in a Huff Willis
The Height of the Ridiculous O. W. Holmes
The Briefless Barrister J. G. Saxe
Sonnet to a Clam J. G. Saxe
Venus of the Needle Allingham

NARRATIVE.

Take thy Old Cloak about thee Percy Reliques
King John and the Abbot Percy Reliques
The Baffled Knight, or Lady's Policy Percy Reliques
Truth and Falsehood Prior
Flattery Williams (Sir C. H.)
The Pig and Magpie Peter Pindar
Advice to Young Women Peter Pindar
Economy Peter Pindar
The Country Lasses Peter Pindar
The Pilgrims and Peas Peter Pindar
On the Death of a Favorite Cat Gray
The Retired Cat Cowper
Saying, not Meaning Wake
Julia Coleridge
A Cock and Hen Story Southey
The Search after Happiness Scott (Sir W.)
The Donkey and his Panniers Moore
Misadventure at Margate Barham
The Ghost Barham
A Lay of St. Gengulphus Barham
Sir Rupert the Fearless Barham
Look at the Clock Barham
The Bagman's Dog Barham
Dame Fredegonde W. Aytoun
The King of Brentford's Testament Thackeray
Titmarsh's Carmen Lillienses Thackeray
Shadows Lantern
The Retort G. P. Morris

SATIRICAL.

The Rabble, or Who Pays? S. Butler
The Chameleon Prior
The Merry Andrew Prior
Jack and Joan Prior
The Progress of Poetry Swift
Twelve Articles Swift
The Beast's Confession Swift
A New Simile for the Ladies Sheridan (Dr. T.)
On a Lap-dog Gay
The Razor Seller Peter Pindar
The Sailor Boy at Prayers Peter Pindar
Bienseance Peter Pindar
Kings and Courtiers Peter Pindar
Praying for Rain Peter Pindar
Apology for Kings Peter Pindar
Ode to the Devil Peter Pindar
The King of Spain and the Horse Peter Pindar
The Tender Husband Peter Pindar
The Soldier and the Virgin Mary Peter Pindar
A King of France and the Fair Lady Peter Pindar
The Eggs Yriarte
The Ass and his Master Yriarte
The Love of the World Reproved, or Hypocrisy Detected Cowper
Report of an Adjudged Case Cowper
Holy Willie's Prayer Burns
Epitaph on Holy Willie Burns
Address to the Deil Burns
The Devil's Walk on Earth Southey
Church and State Moore
Lying Moore
The Millennium Moore
The Little Grand Lama Moore
Eternal London Moore
On Factotum Ned Moore
Letters (Fudge Correspondence), First Letter Moore
Letters (Fudge Correspondence), Second Letter Moore
Letters (Fudge Correspondence), Third Letter Moore
The Literary Lady Sheridan (R. B.)
Netley Abbey Barham
Family Poetry Barham
The Sunday Question Hood
Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire Hood
Death's Ramble Hood
The Bachelor's Dream Hood
On Samuel Rogers Byron
My Partner Praed
The Belle of the Ball Praed
Sorrows of Werther Thackeray
The Yankee Volunteer Thackeray
Courtship and Matrimony Thackeray
Concerning Sisters-in-law Punch
The Lobsters Punch
To Song Birds on a Sunday Punch
The First Sensible Valentine Punch
A Scene on the Austrian Frontier Punch
Ode to the Great Sea Serpent Punch
The Feast of Vegetables and the Flow of Water Punch
Kindred Quacks Punch
The Railway Traveler's Farewell to his Family Punch
A Letter and an Answer Punch
Papa to his Heir Punch
Selling off at the Opera-house Punch
Wonders of the Victorian Age Punch
To the Portrait of a Gentleman Holmes
My Aunt Holmes
Comic Miseries Saxe
Idees Napoleoniennes Aytoun
The Lay of the Lover's Friend Aytoun

PARODIES AND BURLESQUES

Wine Gay
Ode on Science Swift
A Love Song Swift
Baucis and Philemon Swift
A Description of a City Shower Swift
The Progress of Curiosity Pindar
The Author and the Statesman Fielding
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder Anti-Jacobin
Inscription Anti-Jacobin
Song Canning
The Amatory Sonnets of Abel Shufflebottom Southey
   1. Delia at Play
   2. The Poet proves the existence of a Soul from his Love for Delia
   3. The Poet expresses his feelings respecting a Portrait in Delia's
        Parlor
The Love Elegies of Abel Shufflebottom Southey
   1. The Poet relates how he obtained Delia's Pocket-handkerchief
   2. The Poet expatiates on the Beauty of Delia's Hair
   3. The Poet relates how he stole a lock of Delia's Hair, and her
         anger
The Baby's Debut James Smith
Playhouse Musings James Smith
A Tale of Drury Lane Horace Smith
Drury's Dirge Horace Smith
What is Life? Blackwood
The Confession Blackwood
The Milling Match between Entellus and Darcs Moore
Not a Sous had he Got Barham
Raising the Devil Barham
The London University Barham
Domestic Poems Hood
   1. Good-night
   2. A Parental Ode to my Son
   3. A Serenade
Ode to Perry Hood
A Theatrical Curiosity Cruikshank's Om
The Secret Sorrow Punch
Song for Punch-drinkers Punch
The Song of the Humbugged Husband Punch
Temperance Song Punch
Lines Punch
Madness Punch
The Bandit's Fate Punch
Lines written after a Battle Punch
The Phrenologist to his Mistress Punch
The Chemist to his Love Punch
A Ballad of Bedlam Punch
Stanzas to an Egg Punch
A Fragment Punch
Eating Soup Punch
The Sick Child Punch
The Imaginative Crisis Punch
Lines to Bessy Punch
Monody on the Death of an Only Client Punch
Love on the Ocean Punch
"Oh! wilt thou Sew my Buttons on? etc." Punch
The Paid Bill. Punch
Parody for a Reformed Parliament Punch
The Waiter Punch
The Last Appendix to Yankee Doodle Punch
Lines for Music Punch
Drama for Every Day Life Punch
Proclivior Punch
Jones at the Barber's Shop Punch
The Sated One Punch
Sapphics of the Cab-stand Punch
Justice to Scotland Punch
The Poetical Cookery-book. Punch
  The Steak
  Roasted Sucking Pig
  Beignet de Pomme
  Cherry Pie
  Deviled Biscuit
  Red Herrings
  Irish Stew
  Barley Broth
  Calf's Heart
  The Christmas Pudding
  Apple Pie
  Lobster Salad
  Stewed Steak
  Green Pea Soup
  Trifle
  Mutton Chops
  Barley Water
  Boiled Chicken
  Stewed Duck and Peas
  Curry
The Railway Gilpin Punch
Elegy Punch
The Boa and the Blanket Punch
The Dilly and the D's Punch
A Book in a Bustle Punch
Stanzas for the Sentimental. Punch
  1. On a Tear which Angelina observed trickling down my nose at
     Dinner-time
  2. On my refusing Angelina a kiss under the Mistletoe
  3. On my finding Angelina stop suddenly in a rapid
     after-supper-polka at Mrs. Tompkins' Ball
Soliloquy on a Cab-stand Punch
The Song of Hiawatha Punch
Comfort in Affliction Aytoun
The Husband's Petition Aytoun
The Biter Bit Aytoun
A Midnight Meditation Aytoun
The Dirge of the Drinker Aytoun
Francesca da Rimini Aytoun
Louis Napoleon's Address to his Army Aytoun
The Battle of the Boulevard Aytoun
Puffs Poetical. Aytoun
  1. Paris and Helen
  2. Tarquin and the Augur
Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian Holmes
Evening, by a Tailor Holmes
Phaethon Saxe
The School-house Lowell

EPIGRAMMATIC.

Epigrams of Ben Jonson.
  To Fine Grand
  " Brainhardy
  " Doctor Empiric
  " Sir Samuel Fuller
  On Banks, the Usurer
  " Chevril the Lawyer
Epigrammatic Verses by Samuel Butler
  Opinion
  Critics
  Hypocrisy
  Polish
  The Godly
  Piety
  Poets
  Puffing
  Politicians
  Fear
  The Law
   " "
   " "
  Confession
  Smatterers
  Bad Writers
  The Opinionative
  Language of the Learned
  Good Writing
  Courtiers
  Inventions
  Logicians
  Laborious Writers
  On a Club of Sots
  Holland
  Women
Epigrams of Edmund Waller
  On a Painted Lady
  On the Marriage of the Dwarfs
Epigrams of Matthew Prior
  A Simile
  The Flies
  Phillis's Age
  To the Duke de Noailles
  On Bishop Atterbury
  Forma Bonum Fragile
  Earning a Dinner
  Bibo and Charon
  The Pedant
Epigrams of Joseph Addison
  The Countess of Manchester
  To an Ill-favored Lady
  To a Capricious Friend
  To a Rogue
Epigrams of Alexander Pope
  On Mrs. Tofts
  To a Blockhead
  The Fool and the Poet
Epigrams of Dean Swift
  On Burning a Dull Poem
  To a Lady
  The Cudgeled Husband
  On seeing Verses written upon Windows at Inns
  On seeing the Busts of Newton, Looke, etc.
  On the Church's Danger
  On one Delacourt, etc.
  On a Usurer
  To Mrs. Biddy Floyd
  The Reverse
  The Place of the Damned
  The Day of Judgment
Paulus the Lawyer Lindsay
Epigrams by Thomas Sheridan.
  On a Caricature
  On Dean Swift's Proposed Hospital, etc.,
  To a Dublin Publisher
Which is Which Byron
On some Lines of Lopez de Vega Dr. Johnson
On a Full-length Portrait of Beau Nash, etc., Chesterfield
On Scotland Cleveland
Epigrams of Peter Pindar
  Edmund Burke's Attack on Warren Hastings
  On an Artist
  On the Conclusion of his Odes
  The Lex Talionis upon Benjamin West
  Barry's Attack upon Sir Joshua Reynolds
  On the Death of Mr. Hone
  On George the Third's Patronage of Benjamin West
  Another on the Same
  Epitaph on Peter Staggs
  Tray's Epitaph
  On a Stone thrown at a very great Man, etc.
  A Consolatory StanzaEpigrams by Robert Burns.
  The Poet's Choice
  On a celebrated Ruling Elder
  On John Dove
  On Andrew Turner
  On a Scotch Coxcomb
  On Grizzel Grim
  On a Wag in Mauchline
  Epitaph on W—-
  On a Suicide
Epigrams from the German of Lessing.
  Niger
  A Nice Point
  True Nobility
  To a Liar Mendax
  The Bad Wife
  The Dead Miser
  The Bad Orator
  The Wise Child
  Specimen of the Laconic
  Cupid and Mercury
  Fritz
  On Dorilis
  To a Slow Walker, etc.
  On Two Beautiful One-eyed Sisters
  The Per Contra, or Matrimonial Balance
Epigrams of S. T. Coleridge.
  An Expectoration
  Expectoration the Second
  To a Lady
  Avaro
  Beelzebub and Job
  Sentimental
  An Eternal Poem
  Bad Poets
To Mr. Alexandre, the Ventriloquist Scott
The Swallows R. B. Sheridan
French and English Erskine
Epigrams by Thomas Moore.
  To Sir Hudson Lowe
  Dialogue
  To Miss —-
  To —-
  On being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party, etc.
  What my Thought's like?
  From the French
  A Joke Versified
  The Surprise
  On —-
  On a Squinting Poetess
  On a Tuft-hunter
  The Kiss
  Epitaph on Southey
  Written in a Young Lady's Common-place Book
  The Rabbinical Origin of Women
  Anacreontique
On Butler's Monument Wesley
On the Disappointment of the Whig Associates
  of the Prince Regent, etc Lamb
To Professor Airey Sydney Smith
On Lord Dudley and Ward Rogers
Epigrams of Lord Byron.
  To the Author of a Sonnet, etc.
  Windsor Poetics
  On a Carrier, etc.
Epigrams of R. H. Barham.
  On the Windows of King's College, etc.
  New-made Honor
  Eheu Fugaces
Anonymous Epigrams.
  On a Pale Lady, etc.
  Upon Pope's Translation of Homer
  Recipe for a Modern Bonnet
  My Wife and I
  On Two Gentlemen, etc.
  Wellington's Nose
  The Smoker
  An Essay on the Understanding
  To a Living Author
Epigrams by Thomas Hood.
  On the Art Unions
  The Superiority of Machinery
Epigrams by W. Savage Landor.
  On Observing a Vulgar Name on the Plinth of a Statue
  Lying in State
Epigrams from Punch.
  The Cause
  Irish Particular
  One Good Turn deserves Another
  Sticky
  The Poet Foiled
  Black and White
  Inquest—not Extraordinary
  Domestic Economy
  On Seeing an Execution
  A Voice, and Nothing Else
  The Amende Honorable
  The Czar
  Bas-Bleu
  To a Rich Young Widow
  The Railway of Life
  A Conjugal Conundrum
  Numbers Altered
  Grammar for the Court of Berlin
  The Empty Bottle
  Aytoun
  The Death of Doctor Morrison
  Bentley's Miscellany
Epigrams by John G. Saxe.
  On a Recent Classic Controversy
  Another
  On an ill-read Lawyer
  On an Ugly Person Sitting for a Daguerreotype
  Woman's Will
  Family Quarrels
A Revolutionary Hero Lowell
Epigrams of Halpin.
  The Last Resort
  Feminine Arithmetic
  The Mushroom Hunt
Jupiter Amans London Leader
The Orator's Epitaph Lord Brougham

ECCENTRIC AND NONDESCRIPT.

The Jovial Priest's Confession Leigh Hunt
Tonis ad Resto Mare Anonymous
Die Dean Swift
Moll Dean Swift
To My Mistress Dean Swift
A Love Song Dean Swift
A Gentle Echo on Woman Dean Swift
To my Nose Anonymous
Roger and Dolly Blackwood
The Irishman Blackwood
A Catalectic Monody Cruikshank's Om.
A New Song Gay
Reminiscences of a Sentimentalist Hood
Faithless Nelly Gray Hood
No! Hood
Jacob Omnium's Hoss Thackeray
The Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown Thackeray
The Ballad of Eliza Davis Thackeray
Lines on a Late Hospicious Ewent Thackeray
The Lamentable Ballad of the Foundling of Shoreditch Thackeray
The Crystal Palace Thackeray
The Speculators Thackeray
A Letter from Mr. Hosea Biglow, etc. Lowell
A Letter from a Candidate for the Presidency Lowell
The Candidate's Creed Lowell
The Courtin' Lowell
A Song for a Catarrh Punch
Epitaph on a Candle Punch
Poetry on an Improved Principle Punch
On a Rejected Nosegay Punch
A Serenade Punch
Railroad Nursery Rhyme Punch
An Invitation to the Zoological Gardens Punch
To the Leading Periodical Punch
The People and their Palace Punch
A Swell's Homage to Mrs. Stowe Punch
The Exclusive's Broken Idol Punch
The Last Kick of Fop's Alley Punch
The Mad Cabman's Song of Sixpence Punch
Alarming Prospect Punch
Epitaph on a Locomotive Punch
The Ticket of Leave Punch
A Polka Lyric Barclay Phillips
A Sunnit to the Big Ox Anonymous

ENIGMATIC.

Riddles by Matthew Prior. Two Riddles
  Enigma
  Another
Riddles by Dean Swift and his friends.
  A Maypole
  On the Moon
  On Ink
  On a Circle
  On a Pen
  A Fan
  On a Cannon
  On the Five Senses
  On Snow
  On a Candle
  On a Corkscrew
  On the Same
  An Echo
  On the Vowels
  On a Pair of Dice
  On a Shadow in a Glass
  On Time

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