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Larks and Nightingales by Nathan Haskell Dole

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Of Blue China by Andrew Lang

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A Riddle: The Letter 'H' by Catherine Fanshawe

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A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan

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Lines to Miss Florence Huntington by Anonymous

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Nonsense by Thomas Moore

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The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess

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Psycholophon by Gelett Burgess

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The Baker's Tale: From 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

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Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

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For a Novel of Hall Caine's (After Kipling) by Robert Bridges (Droch)

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Railroad Rhyme by John Godfrey Saxe

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Physics (The Unconscious Poetizing of a Philosopher) by William Whewell

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The Collegian to His Bride: Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form by Anonymous

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The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring by Henry Howard Brownell

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The Cosmic Egg by Anonymous

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The Hen by Matthias Claudius

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Ode—To the Roc by William John Courthope

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Motherhood by Charles Stuart Calverley

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Disaster by Charles Stuart Calverley

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Lines Written in an Album by Willis Gaylord

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On the Brink by Charles Stuart Calverley

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The V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey Roche

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Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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The Arab by Charles Stuart Calverley

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The Modern Hiawatha by Anonymous

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Poems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem by Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr)

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Belagcholly Days by Anonymous

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Sneezing by Leigh Hunt

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To My Nose by Alfred A. Forrester (Alfred Crowquill)

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Lapsus Calami by James Kenneth Stephen

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A Conservative by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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'Forever' by Charles Stuart Calverley

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Siege of Belgrade by Anonymous

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My Love by Anonymous

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Ode to the Human Heart by Laman Blanchard

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Metrical Feet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Nocturnal Sketch (Blank Verse in Rhyme) by Thomas Hood

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A Recipe for Salad by Sydney Smith

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Ode to Tobacco by Charles S. Calverley

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A Farewell to Tobacco by Charles Lamb

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Too Great a Sacrifice by Anonymous

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From 'Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum' by Wallace Irwin

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A Saddened Tramp by Anonymous

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The Modern House That Jack Built by Anonymous

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The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder by George Canning

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Deborah Lee by William H. Burleigh

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The Cock and the Bull by Charles Stuart Calverley

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The Auld Wife by Charles Stuart Calverley

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Lovers, and a Reflection by Charles Stuart Calverley

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Little Breeches: A Pike County View of Special Providence by John Hay

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Jim by Bret Harte

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Banty Tim by John Hay

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Dow's Flat by Bret Harte

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The Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte

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Plain Language from Truthful James (Popularly Known as 'The Heathen Chinee') by Bret Harte

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A Plantation Ditty by Frank Lebby Stanton

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De Fust Banjo by Irwin Russell

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Perils of Thinking by Anonymous

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Nebuchadnezzar by Irwin Russell

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A Life's Love by Anonymous

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Darwin by Mortimer Collins

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Ode for a Social Meeting (With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller) by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Hollow Hospitality: From 'Satires,' Book III, Satire 3 by Dr. Joseph Hall

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A Recipe: Roasted Sucking-Pig (from 'Punch's Poetical Cookery Book') by Anonymous

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Dot Long-Handled Dipper by Charles Follen Adams

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The Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.)

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America: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell

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What Mr. Robinson Thinks: From 'The Biglow Papers,' No. III by James Russell Lowell

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Swell's Soliloquy by Anonymous

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The Compliment by Eugene Field

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The Nantucket Skipper by James Thomas Fields

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The One-Hoss Shay; or, The Deacon's Masterpiece (A Logical Story) by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Griggsby's Station by James Whitcomb Riley

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He'd Had No Show by Sam Walter Foss

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The Mystified Quaker in New York by Anonymous

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To the 'Sextant' by Arabella M. Willson

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Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle: Pike County Ballads by John Hay

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To the Pliocene Skull (A Geological Address) by Bret Harte

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To the Terrestrial Globe (By a Miserable Wretch) by William Schwenck Gilbert

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The Nose and the Eyes by William Cowper

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The Vowels: An Enigma by Jonathan Swift

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Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck

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The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough

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The New Church Organ by Will Carleton

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Tonis ad Resto Mare by Jonathan Swift

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The Irishman and the Lady by William Maginn

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The Recruit by Robert William Chambers

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Ritter Hugo by Charles Godfrey Leland

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Hans Breitmann's Party by Charles Godfrey Leland

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Leedle Yawcob Strauss by Charles Follen Adams

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The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger by Horace Smith

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The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper

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Epigrams by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The Razor-Seller by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)

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Paper (A Conversational Pleasantry) by Benjamin Franklin

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Epitaph: For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, Lost at Waterloo by George Canning

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Rudolph the Headsman: From 'This Is It' by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Song of One Eleven Years in Prison by George Canning

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Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Captain Reece by William Schwenck Gilbert

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The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell': From 'The Bab Ballads' by William Schwenck Gilbert

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The Art of Book-Keeping by Thomas Hood

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Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns

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The Pilgrims and the Peas by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)

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The Vicar of Bray by Anonymous

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Hudibras' Sword and Dagger: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Dr. Samuel Butler

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The Fine Old English Gentleman by Anonymous

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Toby Tosspot by George Colman the Younger

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The Milkmaid by Jeffreys Taylor

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Morning Meditations by Thomas Hood

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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith

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Old Grimes by Albert G. Greene

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Elegy on Madam Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith

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The Grave-Yard: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell

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Faithless Nelly Gray (A Pathetic Ballad) by Thomas Hood

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Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood

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Orator Puff by Thomas Moore

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Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes by Anonymous

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King John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by Anonymous

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Gluggity Glug: From 'The Myrtle and the Vine' by George Colman the Younger

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I Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'Keeffe

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Good Ale by John Still