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World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)

The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a broad and diverse selection of light and comic verse on miscellaneous topics, including religion, the laboring classes, romance, government, food, the human body, animals, the natural world, and everyday hobbies. Also included are parodies and imitations, ingenuities and oddities, and nonsense verse, all using inventive techniques such as puns, wordplay, alliteration, doggerel, adventurous rhyming, and dialect. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Year of Publication: 1904Genres: Anthologies

Running Time: 05 hours 35 minutes 51 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes by Anonymous Craig Franklin	2:22
2	King John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by Anonymous Sonia	6:42
3	Gluggity Glug: From 'The Myrtle and the Vine' by George Colman the Younger Leanne Yau	1:58
4	I Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'Keeffe Jason in Panama	1:33
5	Good Ale by John Still Leanne Yau	2:35
6	The Pilgrims and the Peas by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) Tomas Peter	3:36
7	The Vicar of Bray by Anonymous Tomas Peter	4:52
8	Hudibras' Sword and Dagger: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Dr. Samuel Butler Sonia	2:09
9	The Fine Old English Gentleman by Anonymous Foon	2:48
10	Toby Tosspot by George Colman the Younger Sonia	4:02
11	The Milkmaid by Jeffreys Taylor Leanne Yau	2:47
12	Morning Meditations by Thomas Hood Craig Franklin	2:23
13	Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith Leanne Yau	1:34
14	Old Grimes by Albert G. Greene Tomas Peter	2:34
15	Elegy on Madam Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith Foon	1:46
16	The Grave-Yard: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell Tomas Peter	2:05
17	Faithless Nelly Gray (A Pathetic Ballad) by Thomas Hood Sonia	3:30
18	Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood Sonia	3:31
19	Orator Puff by Thomas Moore Sonia	2:11
20	The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger by Horace Smith Sonia	2:40
21	The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper Sonia	11:13
22	Epigrams by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Foon	2:22
23	The Razor-Seller by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) Leanne Yau	3:51
24	Paper (A Conversational Pleasantry) by Benjamin Franklin Craig Franklin	3:48
25	Epitaph: For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, Lost at Waterloo by George Canning Tomas Peter	2:07
26	Rudolph the Headsman: From 'This Is It' by Oliver Wendell Holmes Leanne Yau	1:28
27	Song of One Eleven Years in Prison by George Canning Tomas Peter	3:12
28	Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray Sonia	2:14
29	Captain Reece by William Schwenck Gilbert Sonia	4:48
30	The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell': From 'The Bab Ballads' by William Schwenck Gilbert Leanne Yau	4:59
31	The Art of Book-Keeping by Thomas Hood Tomas Peter	4:06
32	Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns Leanne Yau	1:56
33	To the Terrestrial Globe (By a Miserable Wretch) by William Schwenck Gilbert Jason in Panama	1:19
34	The Nose and the Eyes by William Cowper Leanne Yau	2:18
35	The Vowels: An Enigma by Jonathan Swift Leanne Yau	0:47
36	Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck Leanne Yau	4:39
37	The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough Sonia	1:32
38	The New Church Organ by Will Carleton Sonia	4:21
39	Tonis ad Resto Mare by Jonathan Swift Leanne Yau	1:30
40	The Irishman and the Lady by William Maginn Tomas Peter	2:36
41	The Recruit by Robert William Chambers Tomas Peter	3:16
42	Ritter Hugo by Charles Godfrey Leland Sonia	2:22
43	Hans Breitmann's Party by Charles Godfrey Leland Tomas Peter	2:50
44	Leedle Yawcob Strauss by Charles Follen Adams Leanne Yau	2:13
45	Dot Long-Handled Dipper by Charles Follen Adams Sonia	3:02
46	The Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.) Sonia	7:53
47	America: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell Leanne Yau	2:21
48	What Mr. Robinson Thinks: From 'The Biglow Papers,' No. III by James Russell Lowell Craig Franklin	3:40
49	Swell's Soliloquy by Anonymous Tomas Peter	1:44
50	The Compliment by Eugene Field Leanne Yau	1:19
51	The Nantucket Skipper by James Thomas Fields Tomas Peter	2:29
52	The One-Hoss Shay; or, The Deacon's Masterpiece (A Logical Story) by Oliver Wendell Holmes Tomas Peter	7:04
53	Griggsby's Station by James Whitcomb Riley Craig Franklin	2:56
54	He'd Had No Show by Sam Walter Foss Sonia	1:59
55	The Mystified Quaker in New York by Anonymous Sonia	4:47
56	To the 'Sextant' by Arabella M. Willson Foon	4:09
57	Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle: Pike County Ballads by John Hay Sonia	2:50
58	To the Pliocene Skull (A Geological Address) by Bret Harte Tomas Peter	4:35
59	Little Breeches: A Pike County View of Special Providence by John Hay Jason in Panama	2:56
60	Jim by Bret Harte Jason in Panama	2:05
61	Banty Tim by John Hay Foon	2:57
62	Dow's Flat by Bret Harte Craig Franklin	4:00
63	The Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte Jason in Panama	3:03
64	Plain Language from Truthful James (Popularly Known as 'The Heathen Chinee') by Bret Harte Leanne Yau	2:35
65	A Plantation Ditty by Frank Lebby Stanton Leanne Yau	1:12
66	De Fust Banjo by Irwin Russell Tomas Peter	4:00
67	Perils of Thinking by Anonymous Jason in Panama	0:45
68	Nebuchadnezzar by Irwin Russell Foon	2:04
69	A Life's Love by Anonymous Craig Franklin	1:36
70	Darwin by Mortimer Collins Craig Franklin	0:36
71	Ode for a Social Meeting (With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller) by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sonia	2:26
72	Hollow Hospitality: From 'Satires,' Book III, Satire 3 by Dr. Joseph Hall Sonia	2:31
73	A Recipe: Roasted Sucking-Pig (from 'Punch's Poetical Cookery Book') by Anonymous Foon	2:17
74	A Recipe for Salad by Sydney Smith Leanne Yau	1:44
75	Ode to Tobacco by Charles S. Calverley Tomas Peter	1:56
76	A Farewell to Tobacco by Charles Lamb Foon	7:23
77	Too Great a Sacrifice by Anonymous Leanne Yau	0:58
78	From 'Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum' by Wallace Irwin Tomas Peter	2:02
79	A Saddened Tramp by Anonymous Jason in Panama	0:52
80	The Modern House That Jack Built by Anonymous Foon	4:14
81	The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder by George Canning Sonia	2:42
82	Deborah Lee by William H. Burleigh Leanne Yau	2:47
83	The Cock and the Bull by Charles Stuart Calverley Sonia	7:34
84	The Auld Wife by Charles Stuart Calverley Leanne Yau	2:37
85	Lovers, and a Reflection by Charles Stuart Calverley Sonia	4:03
86	Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne Sonia	3:30
87	The Arab by Charles Stuart Calverley Sonia	2:17
88	The Modern Hiawatha by Anonymous Foon	0:58
89	Poems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem by Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr) Sonia	8:19
90	Belagcholly Days by Anonymous Leanne Yau	1:50
91	Sneezing by Leigh Hunt Sonia	1:09
92	To My Nose by Alfred A. Forrester (Alfred Crowquill) Sonia	0:51
93	Lapsus Calami by James Kenneth Stephen Sonia	1:10
94	A Conservative by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Leanne Yau	2:22
95	'Forever' by Charles Stuart Calverley Sonia	2:04
96	Siege of Belgrade by Anonymous Tomas Peter	2:06
97	My Love by Anonymous Leanne Yau	1:39
98	Ode to the Human Heart by Laman Blanchard Craig Franklin	1:39
99	Metrical Feet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Tomas Peter	1:03
100	Nocturnal Sketch (Blank Verse in Rhyme) by Thomas Hood Sonia	2:42
101	Railroad Rhyme by John Godfrey Saxe Craig Franklin	2:34
102	Physics (The Unconscious Poetizing of a Philosopher) by William Whewell Foon	0:47
103	The Collegian to His Bride: Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form by Anonymous Craig Franklin	1:11
104	The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring by Henry Howard Brownell Leanne Yau	1:07
105	The Cosmic Egg by Anonymous Foon	1:17
106	The Hen by Matthias Claudius Sonia	1:45
107	Ode—To the Roc by William John Courthope Sonia	3:48
108	Motherhood by Charles Stuart Calverley Leanne Yau	3:05
109	Disaster by Charles Stuart Calverley Foon	2:38
110	Lines Written in an Album by Willis Gaylord Tomas Peter	1:01
111	On the Brink by Charles Stuart Calverley Leanne Yau	2:50
112	The V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey Roche Sonia	2:23
113	Larks and Nightingales by Nathan Haskell Dole Leanne Yau	1:30
114	Of Blue China by Andrew Lang Leanne Yau	1:37
115	A Riddle: The Letter 'H' by Catherine Fanshawe Craig Franklin	2:07
116	A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan Sonia	2:44
117	Lines to Miss Florence Huntington by Anonymous Sonia	2:35
118	Nonsense by Thomas Moore Craig Franklin	1:02
119	The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess Tomas Peter	0:36
120	Psycholophon by Gelett Burgess Tomas Peter	0:58
121	The Baker's Tale: From 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) Sonia	3:55
122	Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) Leanne Yau	1:46
123	For a Novel of Hall Caine's (After Kipling) by Robert Bridges (Droch) Sonia	0:48