Twentieth century blues: Marquis, Don. from Certain maxims of Archy
Auden, W.H. The unknown citizen/Doggerel by a senior citizen
MacNeice, Louis. Bagpipe music
Updike, John. Insomnia the gem of the ocean
Kinnell, Galway. In a parlor containing a table
Piercy, Marge. The development
Ginsberg, Allen. I am a victim of telephone
Lazard, Naomi. In answer to your query
Conway, Jack. Clothes make the man
Lipton, James. [Misericordia!]
Larkin, Philip. Annus mirabilis
Chappell, Fred. Guess who
Hoffenstein, Samuel. [Babies haven't any hair]
Nash, Ogden. A man can complain, can't he?
Coward, Noel. What's going to happen to the tots?
Blaker, Margaret. Pippa passes, but I can't get around this truck
Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Miniver Cheevy
Parry, David Fisher. Miniver Cheevy, Jr. Arts and letters: Wilbur, Richard. The prisoner of Zenda
Garth, Samuel. [What frenzy has of late possess'd the brain!]
Herbert, A.E. Triangular legs
White, E.B.I paint what I see
Hollander, John. The Russian soul II
Anonymous. What Hiawatha probably did
Sagoff, Maurice. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe/Preface ShrinkLit: Elements of style William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
Prior, Matthew. Earning a dinner
Hecht, Anthony. The Dover bitch
Cowper, William. Simplicity
Coleridge, Hartley. Fie on Eastern luxury!
Thackeray, William Makepeace. A Victorian paraphrase
Field, Eugene. The preference declared
Dobson, Austinches Persicos odi: Pocket version
Whicher, George F. Myrtle for two
Preston, Keith. Chicago analogue
Carryl, Guy Wetmore. The sycophantic fox and the gullible raven
Coward, Noel. He never did that to me
Burgess, Gelett. The purple cow/Confession
Sharpless, Stanley J. Hamlet
Anonymous. You're the top
Porter, Cole. Brush up your Shakespeare
Bishop, Morris. [The limerick is furtive and mean]
Gilbert, W.S. Song (from "Patience")
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Cacoethes scribendi
Fried, Barbara. The good old days
Adams, Franklin P. ("F. P.A.") To a thesaurus
Preston, Keith. The parental critic
Belloc, Hillaire. On his books
Anonymous. To a living author
Wilbur, Richard. What's good for the soul is good for sales/To an American poet just dead
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The sorrows of Werther
Beerbohm, Max. Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housman
Jonson, Ben. On English monsieur
Veale, Peter. from Jonsonian poem in progress
Ransom, John Crowe. Survey of literature
Nemerov, Howard. Mystery story
Benson, Gerard. The probatioun officeres tale
Thomas, Lord Erskine. On Scott's "The field of Waterloo"
Carryl, Guy Wetmore. A ballad
Gray, Victor. ('All the world's a stage')
Hoffenstein, Samuel. Birdie McReynolds/Miss Millay says something too
McGinley, Phyllis. Public journal
Taylor, Bert Leston. ("B. L.T.") Upon Julia's arctics
Kingsmill, Hugh. What, still alive
Koch, Kenneth. Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams
Reed, Henry. Chard Whitlow
Kennedy, X.J. From Emily Dickinson in Southern California
Anonymous. Justice to Scotland
Chesterton, C.K. Variations on an air composed on having to appear in a pagaent as Old King Cole. Some fun with the mother tongue: McCord, David. Ascot waistcoat
Godley, A.D. On the motor bus
Anonymous. The American Indian
Hollis, Mark. 'Twixt cup and lip
Guiterman, Arthur. Everything in its place
Bishop, Morris. The naughty preposition
Loomis, Charles Battell. O-U-G-H
Guiterman, Arthur. Local note
Cole, WIlliam. Oh, noa, noa!
Feinstein, Robert N. Woolly words
British and Colonial printer. An Arab and his donkey
Preston, Keith. Lapsus linguae. Only human: Nemerov, Howard. Life cycle of common man
Dickinson, Emily. I'm nobody! Who are you?
Burns, Robert. The jolly beggars
Bersohn, Robert. The dignity of labor
George Gordon, Lord Byron. When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home
Williams, Tennessee. Carrousel tune
Chappell, Fred. from My mother shoots the breeze
Roethke, Theodore. from Three epigrams
White, E.B. To a lady across the way
Nash, Ogden. Ha! Original sin!
Untermeyer, Louis. Repentance
Marquis, Don. The song of Mehitabel
McGinley, Phyllis. Reflections at dawn
Hemminger, Graham Lee. The smoking world
Herbert, A.P. Saturday night
Anonymous. Darwinism in the kitchen
Roethke, Theodore. Song for the squeeze-box
Betjeman, John. In Westminster Abbey
King, Stoddard. Trombone solo
Coward, Noel. I've been to a marvellous party. Life's losers: King, Ben. The pessimist
Parker, Dorothy. The flaw in paganism
Frost, Robert. The objection to being stepped on
Guiterman, Arthur. On the vanity of earthly greatness
Nash, Ogden. Mr. Artesian's conscientiousness
Young, Dorothy. Last lauch
Housman, A.E. Hallelujah!
Parker, Dorothy. Sanctuary
Anonymous. [The night was growing old]
Klappert, Peter. For the poet who said poets are struck by lightning only two or three times
Cummings, E.E. Nobody loses all the time
Smith, Harry B. My Angeline
Anonymous. Poor but honest
Graham, Virginia. Disillusionment
Piercy, Marge. Hello up there
Kennedy, X.J. In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day
Field, Eugene. A piazza tragedy
Gilbert, W.S. To the terrestrial globe (by a miserable wretch). Personalities: Lear, Edward. By way of preface
Eliot, T.S. Lines to Ralph Hodgson, Esqre./Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg
Morley, Christopher. The gospel of Mr. Pepys
Bentley, Edmund Clerihew. [Sir Christopher Wren]
Updike, John. Some Frenchmen
Hecht, Anthony. Paradise lost, book V, an epitome
Hollander, John. Heliogabalus/Danish wit
Naylor, James B(all). Authorship
Benet, Rosemary and Stephen Vincent. Hernando de Soto, 1499?-1542
Starbuck, George. High renaissance
Baker, Kathleen Leland. The baby Hilary, Sir Edmund. Food and drink: Milligan, Spike. A thousand hairy savages
Housman, A.E.G.K. Chesterton on his birth
Anonymous. Miss Fogerty's cake
Keats, John. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
Hoffenstein, Samuel. XIII (from As the crow flies, let him fly)
Tucker, St. George. from The cynic
Roethke, Theodore. The Saginaw song
Piercy, Marge. Attack of the squash people
Anonymous. Waiter, please
Hoffmann, Heinrich. The story of Augustus who would not have any soup
Wells, Carolyn. The universal favorite
McGinley, Phyllis. Notes for a Southern road map
Coward, Noel. Any part of piggy
Lyly, John. Oh, for a bowl of fat canary
Carroll, Lewis. Turtle soup
Blount, Roy, Jr. Against broccoli
Mitchell, Adrian. Giving potatoes
Field, Roswell Martin. A counterblast against garlic
Anonymous. Cautionary limerick
Blake, William. The little vagabond
Johnson, Samuel. "Hermit hoar ..."
Young, George W. Lips that touch liquor
Anonymous. Judged by the company one keeps
Peacock, Thomas Love. Chorus (from Crotchet castle)
Ade, George. R-E-M-O-R-S-E
Turberville, George. Of drunkenness. Occupations and preoccupations: Guiterman, Arthur. Anthologisitics
Bishop, Morris. The anatomy of humor
Roethke, Theodore. 1. Pipling (from Three epigrams)
White, E.B. Critic (from Definitions)
Paul, Louis. Cynical portraits
Yeats, William Butler. The fiddler of Dooney
Saxe, John Godfrey. The news
Hiebert, P.G. The farmer and the farmer's wife
Belloc, Hillaire. Lord Lucky
The modern major-general/The family fool
Lamport, Felicia. Poll star
Sherwood, Robert E. The old hokum buncombe
Brougham, Lord. The orator's epitaph
Cummings, E.E. [A politician is an arse upon]
Jones, M. Keel. Election reflection
Cummings, E.E. [Next to of course God]
Hardy, Thomas. The ruined maid
King, Stoddard. Crime at its best
Anonymous. On a clergyman's horse biting him
White, E.B. Commuter. Money, money, money: Nemerov, Howard. Reflections on the seizure of the Suez, and on a proposal to line the banks of that canal with billboard advertisements
Ciardi, John. Back through the looking glass to the other side
Bunner, H.C. Behold the deeds!
Hughes, Langston. Little lyric (of great importance)
Nash, Ogden. Introspective reflection
Belloc, Hillaire. Fatigue
Adams, Franklin P. ("F. P.A.") The rich man
Elliott, Ebenezer. On Communists
Clough, Arthur Hugh. Spectator ab extra
Preston, Keith. The complete cynic
Anonymous. The advertising agency song
King, Ben. If I should die
Smith, Stevie. Correspondence between Mr. Harrison in Newcastle and Mr. Sholto Peach Harrison in Hull
Anonymous. From a London bookshop
Field, Eugene. Mr. Billings of Louisville
Belloc, Hillaire. Lord Finchley
Bierce, Ambrose. [Don't steal, thou'lt never thus compete]
Anonymous. Where are you going, my pretty maid
Wilbur, Richard. A summer morning
Nash, Ogden. from One from one leaves two. Ports of call: Tibble, Anne. Trials of a tourist
Lear, Edward. The owl and the pussy cat
George Gordon, Lord Byron. Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos/The Lisbon packet
Bishop, Morris. Public aid for Niagara Falls/Ozymandias revisited
Newton, Byron Rufus. Owed to New York-1906
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Cologne/On my joyful departure from the same city, et cetera.
