All Episodes
World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2), The by Various — 123 episodes
Larks and Nightingales by Nathan Haskell Dole
Of Blue China by Andrew Lang
A Riddle: The Letter 'H' by Catherine Fanshawe
A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan
Lines to Miss Florence Huntington by Anonymous
Nonsense by Thomas Moore
The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess
Psycholophon by Gelett Burgess
The Baker's Tale: From 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
For a Novel of Hall Caine's (After Kipling) by Robert Bridges (Droch)
Railroad Rhyme by John Godfrey Saxe
Physics (The Unconscious Poetizing of a Philosopher) by William Whewell
The Collegian to His Bride: Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form by Anonymous
The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring by Henry Howard Brownell
The Cosmic Egg by Anonymous
The Hen by Matthias Claudius
Ode—To the Roc by William John Courthope
Motherhood by Charles Stuart Calverley
Disaster by Charles Stuart Calverley
Lines Written in an Album by Willis Gaylord
On the Brink by Charles Stuart Calverley
The V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey Roche
Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Arab by Charles Stuart Calverley
The Modern Hiawatha by Anonymous
Poems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem by Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr)
Belagcholly Days by Anonymous
Sneezing by Leigh Hunt
To My Nose by Alfred A. Forrester (Alfred Crowquill)
Lapsus Calami by James Kenneth Stephen
A Conservative by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
'Forever' by Charles Stuart Calverley
Siege of Belgrade by Anonymous
My Love by Anonymous
Ode to the Human Heart by Laman Blanchard
Metrical Feet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nocturnal Sketch (Blank Verse in Rhyme) by Thomas Hood
A Recipe for Salad by Sydney Smith
Ode to Tobacco by Charles S. Calverley
A Farewell to Tobacco by Charles Lamb
Too Great a Sacrifice by Anonymous
From 'Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum' by Wallace Irwin
A Saddened Tramp by Anonymous
The Modern House That Jack Built by Anonymous
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder by George Canning
Deborah Lee by William H. Burleigh
The Cock and the Bull by Charles Stuart Calverley
The Auld Wife by Charles Stuart Calverley
Lovers, and a Reflection by Charles Stuart Calverley
Little Breeches: A Pike County View of Special Providence by John Hay
Jim by Bret Harte
Banty Tim by John Hay
Dow's Flat by Bret Harte
The Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte
Plain Language from Truthful James (Popularly Known as 'The Heathen Chinee') by Bret Harte
A Plantation Ditty by Frank Lebby Stanton
De Fust Banjo by Irwin Russell
Perils of Thinking by Anonymous
Nebuchadnezzar by Irwin Russell
A Life's Love by Anonymous
Darwin by Mortimer Collins
Ode for a Social Meeting (With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hollow Hospitality: From 'Satires,' Book III, Satire 3 by Dr. Joseph Hall
A Recipe: Roasted Sucking-Pig (from 'Punch's Poetical Cookery Book') by Anonymous
Dot Long-Handled Dipper by Charles Follen Adams
The Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.)
America: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell
What Mr. Robinson Thinks: From 'The Biglow Papers,' No. III by James Russell Lowell
Swell's Soliloquy by Anonymous
The Compliment by Eugene Field
The Nantucket Skipper by James Thomas Fields
The One-Hoss Shay; or, The Deacon's Masterpiece (A Logical Story) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Griggsby's Station by James Whitcomb Riley
He'd Had No Show by Sam Walter Foss
The Mystified Quaker in New York by Anonymous
To the 'Sextant' by Arabella M. Willson
Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle: Pike County Ballads by John Hay
To the Pliocene Skull (A Geological Address) by Bret Harte
To the Terrestrial Globe (By a Miserable Wretch) by William Schwenck Gilbert
The Nose and the Eyes by William Cowper
The Vowels: An Enigma by Jonathan Swift
Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck
The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough
The New Church Organ by Will Carleton
Tonis ad Resto Mare by Jonathan Swift
The Irishman and the Lady by William Maginn
The Recruit by Robert William Chambers
Ritter Hugo by Charles Godfrey Leland
Hans Breitmann's Party by Charles Godfrey Leland
Leedle Yawcob Strauss by Charles Follen Adams
The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger by Horace Smith
The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper
Epigrams by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Razor-Seller by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)
Paper (A Conversational Pleasantry) by Benjamin Franklin
Epitaph: For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, Lost at Waterloo by George Canning
Rudolph the Headsman: From 'This Is It' by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Song of One Eleven Years in Prison by George Canning
Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray
Captain Reece by William Schwenck Gilbert
The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell': From 'The Bab Ballads' by William Schwenck Gilbert
The Art of Book-Keeping by Thomas Hood
Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns
The Pilgrims and the Peas by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)
The Vicar of Bray by Anonymous
Hudibras' Sword and Dagger: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Dr. Samuel Butler
The Fine Old English Gentleman by Anonymous
Toby Tosspot by George Colman the Younger
The Milkmaid by Jeffreys Taylor
Morning Meditations by Thomas Hood
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith
Old Grimes by Albert G. Greene
Elegy on Madam Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith
The Grave-Yard: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell
Faithless Nelly Gray (A Pathetic Ballad) by Thomas Hood
Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood
Orator Puff by Thomas Moore
Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes by Anonymous
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by Anonymous
Gluggity Glug: From 'The Myrtle and the Vine' by George Colman the Younger
I Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'Keeffe
Good Ale by John Still