The rich man / Franklin P. Adams -- Don't tell my what you dreamt last night / Franklin P. Adams -- Such stuff as dreams / Franklin P. Adams -- Those two boys / Franklin P. Adams -- To a lady / Franklin P. Adams -- Tonight / Franklin P. Adams -- The translated way / Franklin P. Adams -- REMORSE / George Ade -- We have lost our little Hanner / Max Adeler -- Limberick / Conrad Aiken -- La Donna e mobile / A.K. -- Echo poem / M. Allan -- The coconut / Ande (Angela Milne) -- Burglar Bill / F. Anstey (Thomas Anstey Guthrie) -- Note on intellectuals / W.H. Auden -- Endurance test / Dacre Balsdon -- The confession / Richard Harris Barham -- I had a duck-billed platypus / Patrick Barrington -- The frog / Hilaire Belloc -- G / Hilaire Belloc -- The game of cricket / Hilaire Belloc -- George / Hilaire Belloc -- Grandmamma's birthday / Hilaire Belloc -- The hippopotamus / Hilaire Belloc -- The llama / Hilaire Belloc -- Lord Finchley / Hilaire Belloc -- Lord High-Bo / Hilaire Belloc -- On mundane acquaintances / Hilaire Belloc -- The art of biography / Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- Dear me, exclaimed Homer / Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- George the Third / Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- I quite realized, said Columbus / Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- John Stuart Mill / Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- The people of Spain think Cervantes / Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- Sir Christoper Wren / Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- When Alexander Pope / Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- The younger Van Eyck / Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- On Mrs. W.--- / Nicolas Bentley -- Arrogance repressed / John Betjeman -- Hunter trials / John Betjeman -- Potpourri from a Surrey garden / John Betjeman -- An expostulation / Isaac Bickerstaff -- The complete misanthropist / Morris Bishop -- How to treat elves / Morris Bishop -- The immortal arctic / Morris Bishop -- The naughty preposition / Morris Bishop -- The perforated spirit / Morris Bishop -- Song of the pop-bottlers / Morris Bishop -- Sonnet and limerick / Morris Bishop -- There's money in Mother and Father / Morris Bishop -- A tonversation with Baby / Morris Bishop -- We have been here before / Morris Bishop -- Who'd be a hero / Morris Bishop -- Cromek / William Blake -- Sir Joshua Reynolds / William Blake -- And now / J.B. Boothroyd -- Holy order / J.B. Boothroyd -- Please excuse typing / J.B. Boothroyd -- Sanctuary / J.B. Boothroyd -- Where the single men go in summer / Nina Bourne -- The rain it rainith / Baron Charles Bowen -- P is for paleontology / Milton Bracker -- Schmaltztenor / M.W. Branch -- A thin facade for Edith Sitwell / John Malcolm Brinnin -- Breakfast with Gerard Manley Hopkins / Anthony Brode -- Calypsomania / Anthony Brode -- Obituary / Anthony Brode -- Unromantic song / Anthony Brode -- The passenjare / Isaac H. Bromley --excerpt from The Marquis of Carabas / Robert Barnabas Brough -- My Lord Tomnoddy / Robert Barnabas Brough -- Footnote to Tennyson / Gerald Bullett -- Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe / H.C. Bunner -- Ah, yes, I wrote the purple cow / Gelett Burgess -- I wish that my room had a floor / Gelett Burgess --excerpt from The protest of the illiterate / Gelett Burgess -- The purple cow / Gelett Burgess -- Everybody works but Father, as W.S. Gilbert would have written it / Arthur G. Burgoyne -- The bookworms / Robert Burns -- On a wag in Mauchline / Robert Burns -- Massenet / Antony Butts -- Ballad / C.S. Calverley --excerpt from Beer / C.S. Calverley -- Changed / C.S. Calverley -- First love / C.S. Calverley --excerpt from Gemini and Virgo / C.S. Calverley -- Lines on hearing the organ / C.S. Calverley -- Love / C.S. Calverley -- Morning / C.S. Calverley -- Ode to tobacco / C.S. Calverley -- On the beach / C.S. Calverley -- Elegy on the loss of U.S. Submarine S4 / Congressman H.C. Canfield -- Song of one eleven years in prison / George Canning -- Father William / Lewis Carroll -- Hiawatha's photographing / Lewis Carroll -- Humpty Dumpty's recitation / Lewis Carroll --excerpt from The hunting of the Snark / Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The mad gardener's song / Lewis Carroll --excerpt from Melancholetta / Lewis Carroll -- The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- Ways and means / Lewis Carroll -- Robinson Crusoe's story / Charles Edward Carryl -- How a girl was too reckless of grammar by far / Guy Wetmore Carryl -- Little Red Riding Hood / Guy Wetmore Carryl -- The sycophantic fox and the gullible raven / Guy Wetmore Carryl -- An epitaph / G.J. Cayley -- A ballad of suicide / G.K. Chesterton -- A dedication / G.K. Chesterton -- Wine and water / G.K. Chesterton --excerpt from Spectator Ab Extra / Arthur Hugh Clough -- Alma mater, forget me / William Cole -- Just dropped in / William Cole -- Undersea fever / William Cole -- The exchange / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- On a Lord / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- If / Mortimer Collins -- Unfortunate Miss Bailey / George Colman the younger -- Poor South, her books get fewer and fewer / J. Gordon Coogler --excerpt from Song of the seaweed / Eliza Cook -- Sehnsucht, or, what you will / Corinna -- Mad dogs and Englishmen / Noel Coward -- Egoism / W. Craddle -- As Joe Gould says in / E.E. Cummings -- ? / E.E. Cummings -- To Kate, skating better than her date / David Daiches -- A rustic song / Anthony C. Deane -- Alternative endings to an unwritten ballad / Paul Dehn -- A game of consequences / Paul Dehn -- Hey diddle diddle / Paul Dehn -- In a cavern, in a canyon / Paul Dehn -- Jack and Jill went up the hill / Paul Dehn -- Jenny kiss'd me when we met / Paul Dehn -- Little Miss Muffet / Paul Dehn -- Nuclear wind, when wilt thou blow / Paul Dehn -- Two blind mice / Paul Dehn -- Whenas in jeans / Paul Dehn -- Bones / Walter de la Mare -- Moonshine / Walter de la Mare -- Pooh / Walter de la Mare -- Why / Walter de la Mare -- To my friends / Peter De Vries -- By-election idyll / Peter Dickinson -- My last illusion / Dum-Dum (Major John Kendall) -- La donna e perpetuum mobile / Irwin Edman -- Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg / T.S. Eliot --\tOn Scott's poem The field of Waterloo / Thomas, Lord Erskine -- On Sir John Vanbrugh, architect / Abel Evans -- Miss Twye / Gavin Ewart -- Jacobean / Clifton Fadiman -- Theological / Clifton Fadiman -- Wheelbarrow / Eleanor Farjeon -- A piazza tragedy / Eugene Field -- The Sioux / Eugene Field -- In extremis / Margaret Fishback -- Sentimental lines to a yung man, who favors pink wallpaper, while I personally lean to the blue / Margaret Fishback -- The talk of the town / Ed Fisher -- To be continued / James Montgomery Flagg -- On marriage / Thomas Flatman -- A melancholy lay / Marjory Fleming -- A sonnet on a monkey / Marjory Fleming -- They answer back: to his ever-worshipped will from W.H. / Francis -- Existentialism / Lloyd Frankenberg -- Bobby's first poem / Norman Gale -- The question / Norman Gale -- The circus ship Euzkera / Walker Gibson -- Arac's song / W.S. Gilbert -- Bunthorne's song / W.S. Gilbert -- Captain Reece / W.S. Gilbert -- The contemplative sentry / W.S. Gilbert -- The disagreeable man man / W.S. Gilbert -- The Duke of Plaza-Toro / W.S. Gilbert -- Etiquette / W.S. Gilbert -- Ferdinando and Elvira / W.S. Gilbert -- Gentle Alice Brown / W.S. Gilbert -- There lived a King / W.S. Gilbert -- To sit in solemn silence / W.S. Gilbert -- The board meets / John Gloag -- Common sense / Harry Graham -- My first love / Harry Graham -- Patience / Harry Graham -- The perils of obesity / Harry Graham -- The song of Mr. Toad / Kenneth Grahame -- Traveler's curse after misdirection / Robert Graves -- Ain't nature commonplace / Arthur Guiterman -- Habits of the hippopotamus / Arthur Guiterman -- In praise of llamas / Arthur Guiterman -- Mavrone / Arthur Guiterman -- Mexican serenade / Arthur Guiterman -- The ovibos / Robert Hale -- A second stanza for Dr. Johnson / Donald Hall -- The ruined maid / Thomas Hardy -- On treason / Sir John Harington -- Mrs. Judge Jenkins / Bret Harte -- S.P.C.A. sermon / Stuart Hemsley -- At the theater / A.P. Herbert -- Hattage / A.P. Herbert -- He didn't oughter / A.P. Herbert -- I can't think what he sees in her / A.P. Herbert -- I've got the giggles today / A.P. Herbert -- The racing-man / A.P. Herbert -- Stop, science - stop / A.P. Herbert -- To a junior waiter / A.P. Herbert -- The chimpanzee / Oliver Herford -- Japanesque / Oliver Herford -- A penguin / Oliver Herford -- The platypus / Oliver Herford -- The smile of the goat / Oliver Herford -- The smile of the walrus / Oliver Herford -- Some geese / Oliver Herford -- Stairs / Oliver Herford -- The farmer and the farmer's wife / P.G. Herbert -- The bird / Samuel Hoffenstein -- Breathes there a man with hide so tough / Samuel Hoffenstein -- A father's heart is touched / Samuel Hoffenstein -- I burned my candle at both ends / Samuel Hoffenstein -- I'd rather listen to a flute / Samuel Hoffenstein -- If you love me, as I love you / Samuel Hoffenstein -- Poems in praise of practically nothing / Samuel Hoffenstein -- Question and answer / Samuel Hoffenstein -- When you're away / Samuel Hoffenstein -- Your little hands / Samuel Hoffenstein -- Careless talk / Mark Hollis -- Twixt cup and lip / Mark Hollis -- The height of the ridiculous / Oliver Wendell Holmes --excerpt from The September gale / Oliver Wendell Holmes --

Mary's ghost / Thomas Hood -- Natural tears / Thomas Hood -- No / Thomas Hood -- A nocturnal sketch / Thomas Hood -- On a royal demise / Thomas Hood --excerpt fromA parental ode to my son, aged three years and five months / Thomas Hood -- The poets fate / Thomas Hood -- The sun was slumbering in the west / Thomas Hood -- To Minerva / Thomas Hood -- Ode to a dental hygienist / Earnest A. Hooton -- Halleluja / A.E. Housman -- I knew a cappadocian / A.E. Housman -- Inhuman Henry / A.E. Housman -- The shades of night / A.E. Housman -- When Adam day by day / A.E. Housman -- To Cynthia, not to let him read the ladies' magazines / P.M. Hubbard -- A fish answers / Leigh Hunt -- To a fish / Leigh Hunt -- It's three no trumps / Guy Innes -- Aunt Nerissa's muffin / Wallace Irwin -- The fate of the cabbage rose / Wallace Irwin -- The powerful eyes o' Jeremy Tait / Wallace Irwin -- Reminiscence / Wallace Irwin -- The sea serpant / Wallace Irwin -- Sensitive Sydney / Wallace Irwin -- Hats and the man / Samuel Johnson -- The Indian elephant / C.J. Kaberry -- America, I love you / Bert Kalmar -- Whack fol the diddle / Peadar Kearney -- Boston Charlie / Walt Kelly -- How low is the lowing herd / Walt Kelly -- The cultured girl again / Ben King -- If I should die tonight / Ben King -- That cat / Ben King -- Family life / Allan M. Laing -- Jack the Ripper / Allan M. Laing -- Samuel Pepys / Allan M. Laing -- When they found Giotto / Allan M. Laing -- William the Bastard / Lakon -- The Georges / Walter Savage Landor -- A threnody / George Thomas Lanigan --fragment from Clemo Uti - The water lilies / Ring Lardner -- The akond of swat / Edward Lear -- How pleasant to know Mr. Lear / Edward Lear -- Says I to myself / Edward Lear -- The two old bachelors / Edward Lear -- Ballad of the mermaid / Charles Godfrey Leland -- The ballad of Sir Brian and the three wishes / Newman Levy -- The belle of the Balkans / Newman Levy -- Carmen / Newman Levy -- Thais / Newman Levy -- Les chasse-neige / Ralph A. Lewin -- How to tell Juan Don from another / Gardner E. Lewis -- Poem, neither Hillaryous Norgay / Gardner E. Lewis -- Ballade to my psychoanalyst / Kenneth Lillington -- At the ship / R.P. Lister -- The gemlike flame / R.P. Lister -- The human races / R.P. Lister -- Lament of an idle demon / R.P. Lister -- A terrible infant / Frederick Locker-Lampson -- Ascot waistcoat / David McCord -- The axolotl / David McCord -- A hex on the Mexican X / David McCord -- The lacquer liquor locker / David McCord -- Where is my butterfly net / David McCord -- Ballad of culinary frustration / Phyllis McGinley -- Reflections at dawn / Phyllis McGinley -- On the high cost of dairy products / James McIntyre -- Queen of cheese / James McIntyre -- Shelly / James McIntyre -- Archy confesses / Don Marquis --excert from Grotesques / Don Marquis -- The hen and the oriole / Don Marquis -- The jokesmith's vacation / Don Marquis -- The song of Mehitabel / Don Marquis -- Time time said old kind Tut / Don Marquis --excerpt from To a lost sweetheart / Don Marquis --excerpt from To a lost sweetheart / Don Marquis --excerpt from The wail of Archy / Don Marquis -- The toad Warty Bliggens / Don Marquis -- When one loves tensely / Don Marquis -- In a town garden / Donald Mattam -- Table talk / Donald Mattam -- The lady with technique / Hughes Mearns -- Going back again / Owen Meredith, Robert, Earl of Lytton -- And now, kind friends, what I have wrote / Julia A. Moore -- A departed friend / Julia A. Moore --excerpt from Sketch of Lord Byron's life / Julia A. Moore -- Willie's and Nellie's wish / Julia A. Moore -- Lying / Thomas Moore -- Of all the men / Thomas Moore -- Song of the ballet / J.B. Morton -- Tourists / Howard Moss -- Literary dinner / Vladimir Nabokov -- Arthur / Ogden Nash -- The canary / Ogden Nash -- Do you plan to speak Bantu / Ogden Nash -- Family court / Ogden Nash -- Goodbye now, or; pardon my gauntlet / Ogden Nash -- I never even suggested it / Ogden Nash -- The lama / Ogden Nash -- The purist / Ogden Nash -- The rhinoceros / Ogden Nash -- Spring comes to Murray Hill / Ogden Nash -- Tableau at twilight / Ogden Nash -- Taboo to boot / Ogden Nash -- That reminds me / Ogden Nash -- To a small boy standing on my shoes while I am wearing them / Ogden Nash -- The turtle / Ogden Nash -- Two and one are a problem / Ogden Nash -- Up from the egg: the confessions of a nuthatch avoider / Ogden Nash -- The visit / Ogden Nash -- The educated love bird / Peter Newell -- Hero and Leander / Joseph S. Newman -- Some questions to be asked of a Rajah, perhaps by the Associated Press / Preston Newman -- I loved thee / Robert Earl Nugent -- Options / O. Henry -- Kinght, with umbrella / Elder Olson -- Balearic Idyll / Frederick Packard -- His mother-in-law / Walter Parke -- George Sand / Dorothy Parker -- Observation / Dorothy Parker -- One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker -- Thomas Carlyle / Dorothy Parker -- The kiss / Coventry Patmore -- Tudor aspersions / R.A. Piddington -- A word of encouragement / J.R. Pope -- On a German tour / Richard Porson -- Epitaph on the late King of the Sandwich Isles / Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- The talented man / Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Warm babies / Keith Preston -- Skip-scoop-Anellie / Tom Prideaux -- Epigram / Matthew Prior -- The piper's progress / Father Prout (the Rev. Francis Mahony) -- Lady Jane / A.T. Quiller-Couch -- The wishes of an elderly man / Walter Raleigh -- Chard Whitlow / Henry Reed -- Racoon / Kenneth Rexroth -- Back room joys / Justin Richardson -- La carte / Justin Richardson -- The oocuck / Justin Richardson -- What'll be the title / Justin Richardson -- The lesser lynx / E.V. Rieu -- Meditations of a tortoise ... / E.V. Rieu -- Soliloquy of a tortoise ... / E.V. Rieu -- Night thought of a tortoise ... / E.V. Rieu -- The cow / Theodore Roethke -- The sloth / Theodore Roethke -- Don't say you like Tchaikowsky / Poul Rosner -- The horse / Naomi Royde-Smith -- America, I love you / Harry Ruby -- A false gallop of analogies / W. St. Leger -- The General / Siegfried Sassoon -- A reply from the akond of swat / Ethel Talbot Scheffauer -- Bonne entente / F.R. Scott -- An ode to spring in the metropolis / Owen Seamen -- The penalties of baldness / Owen Seamen -- To a boy poet of the decadence / Owen Seamen -- The uses of ocean / Owen Seamen -- The warrior's lament / Owen Seamen -- How I brought the good news from Aix to Ghent ... / W.C. Sellar -- In praise of cocoa, Cupid's nightcap / Stanley J. Sharpless -- The Irish schoolmaster / James A. Sidey -- All the smoke / Eli Siegel -- Squeal / Louis Simpson -- Villanelle / W.W. Skeat -- The chimpanzee / Muriel Sly --excerpt from Heaven will protect the working girl / Edgar Smith -- Mr. Smith / William Jay Smith -- Plain talk / William Jay Smith -- Rondeau / William Jay Smith -- Repuest number / G.N. Sprod -- Honesty at a fire / J.C. Squire -- Talk / Philip A. Stalker -- Morning song / Kurt M. Stein -- Vor a Gauguin picture zu singen / Kurt M. Stein -- Of W.W. (Americanus) / J.K. Stephen -- Senex to Matt. Prior / J.K. Stephen -- A sonnet / J.K. Stephen -- A thought / J.K. Stephen -- A glass of beer / James Stephens -- To be continued / Julian Street -- Sartorial solecism / R.E.C. Stringer -- The modern Hiawatha / George A. Strong -- The brewer's man / L.A.G. Strong -- An old woman, outside the Abbey Theater / L.A.G. Strong -- Sim Ines / Jane Stubbs -- A gentle echo on woman / Jonathan Swift -- Canopus / Bert Leston Taylor -- Hence these rimes / Bert Leston Taylor -- To Christopher North / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The sorrows of Werther / W.M. Thackeray -- Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail / Dylan Thomas -- The law of averages / Troubador -- Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, dec'd / Mark Twain -- Edgar A. Guest considers ... / Louis Untermeyer -- I like to sing also / John Updike -- An ode / John Updike -- Party knee / John Updike -- Youth's progress / John Updike -- Manila / Eugene F. Ware --excerpt from If we didn't have to eat / Nixon Waterman -- From my rural pen / T.S. Watt -- Summer song / W.W. Watt -- Austrian army / Alaric A. Watts -- How to tell the wild animals / Carolyn Wells -- To a baked fish / Carolyn Wells -- Bleat of protest / Mildred Weston -- Hat bar / Mildred Weston -- To a lady holding the floor / Mildred Weston -- Hippopotamothalamion / John Hall Wheelock -- Fashions in dogs / E.B. White -- Marble-top / E.B. White -- Abbreviated interviews with a few disgruntled literary celebrities / Reed Whittemore -- The girl I took to the cocktail party / Trevor Williams -- Epitaph on Charles II / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- The sub-average Time reader / Ernest Wittenberg -- Afforestation / E.A. Wodehouse -- Printer's error / P.G. Wodehouse -- Song about whiskers / P.G. Wodehouse -- Time, like an ever-rolling stream / P.G. Wodehouse -- A.E. Housman and a few friends / Humbert Wolfe -- Song in praise of Paella / C.W.V. Wordsworth --excerpt from Liberty / William Wordsworth -- Envoi / D.B. Wyndham Lewis -- Having a wonderful time / D.B. Wyndham Lewis -- A shot at random / D.B. Wyndham Lewis -- How I brought the good news from Aix to Ghent ... \ R.J. Yeatman --