The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4
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Chapters (223)
- THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE, VOLUME 4
- Edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson
- INDEXES TO ALL FOUR VOLUMES
- PART IV
- FAMILIAR VERSE, AND POEMS HUMOROUS AND SATIRIC
- BALLADE OF THE PRIMITIVE JEST
- THE KINDLY MUSE
- TIME TO BE WISE
- UNDER THE LINDENS
- ADVICE
- TO FANNY
- "I'D BE A BUTTERFLY"
- "I'M NOT A SINGLE MAN"
- TO——
- THE VICAR
- THE BELLE OF THE BALL-ROOM
- THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
- A TERNARIE OF LITTLES, UPON A PIPKIN OF JELLY SENT TO A LADY
- CHIVALRY AT A DISCOUNT
- THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE
- TO MY GRANDMOTHER
- MY MISTRESS'S BOOTS
- A GARDEN LYRIC
- MRS. SMITH
- THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD
- A TERRIBLE INFANT
- COMPANIONS
- DOROTHY Q
- MY AUNT
- THE LAST LEAF
- CONTENTMENT
- THE BOYS
- THE JOLLY OLD PEDAGOGUE
- ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINERVA
- THALIA
- PAN IN WALL STREET
- UPON LESBIA—ARGUING
- TO ANTHEA, WHO MAY COMMAND HIM ANYTHING
- THE EIGHT-DAY CLOCK
- A PORTRAIT
- "OLD BOOKS ARE BEST"
- IMPRESSION
- "WITH STRAWBERRIES"
- BALLADE OF LADIES' NAMES
- TO A PAIR OF EGYPTIAN SLIPPERS
- WITHOUT AND WITHIN
- "SHE WAS A BEAUTY"
- NELL GWYNNE'S LOOKING-GLASS
- MIMNERMUS IN CHURCH
- CLAY
- AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE
- PROVENCAL LOVERS
- ON THE HURRY OF THIS TIME
- "GOOD-NIGHT, BABETTE!"
- A DIALOGUE FROM PLATO
- THE LADIES OF ST. JAMES'S
- Phyllida amo ante alias.—Virgil
- THE CURE'S PROGRESS
- A GENTLEMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL
- ON A FAN
- "WHEN I SAW YOU LAST, ROSE"
- URCEUS EXIT
- A CORSAGE BOUQUET
- TWO TRIOLETS
- THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES
- BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES
- A BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES
- IF I WERE KING
- A BALLADE OF SUICIDE
- CHIFFONS!
- ENVOY
- William Samuel Johnson [1859-
- THE COURT HISTORIAN
- MISS LOU
- THE POET AND THE WOOD-LOUSE
- STUDENTS
- "ONE, TWO, THREE!"
- THE CHAPERON
- "A PITCHER OF MIGNONETTE"
- OLD KING COLE
- THE MASTER MARINER
- A ROSE TO THE LIVING
- A KISS
- BIFTEK AUX CHAMPIGNONS
- EVOLUTION
- A REASONABLE AFFLICTION
- A MORAL IN SEVRES
- ON THE FLY-LEAF OF A BOOK OF OLD PLAYS
- THE TALENTED MAN
- A LETTER OF ADVICE
- A NICE CORRESPONDENT
- HER LETTER
- A DEAD LETTER
- THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAWN
- ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES
- VERSES ON A CAT
- EPITAPH ON A HARE
- ON THE DEATH OF MRS. THROCKMORTON'S BULLFINCH
- AN ELEGY ON A LAP-DOG
- MY LAST TERRIER
- GEIST'S GRAVE
- "HOLD"
- THE BARB OF SATIRE
- THE VICAR OF BRAY
- THE LOST LEADER
- ICHABOD
- WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS
- THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT
- THE MARQUIS OF CARABAS
- A MODEST WIT
- JOLLY JACK
- THE KING OF BRENTFORD
- KAISER & CO
- NONGTONGPAW
- THE LION AND THE CUB
- THE HARE WITH MANY FRIENDS
- THE SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND THE GULLIBLE RAVEN
- THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER
- VILLON'S STRAIGHT TIP TO ALL CROSS COVES
- VILLON'S BALLADE
- A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH
- THE WORLD'S WAY
- FOR MY OWN MONUMENT
- THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH
- UP AT A VILLA—DOWN IN THE CITY
- ALL SAINTS'
- AN ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS
- THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE, OR THE WONDERFUL "ONE-HOSS SHAY"
- BALLADE OF A FRIAR
- THE CHAMELEON
- THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT
- THE PHILOSOPHER'S SCALES
- THE MAIDEN AND THE LILY
- THE OWL-CRITIC
- THE BALLAD OF IMITATION
- THE CONUNDRUM OF THE WORKSHOPS
- THE V-A-S-E
- HEM AND HAW
- MINIVER CHEEVY
- THEN AG'IN
- A CONSERVATIVE
- SIMILAR CASES
- MAN AND THE ASCIDIAN
- THE CALF-PATH
- WEDDED BLISS
- PARADISE: A HINDOO LEGEND
- AD CHLOEN, M. A.
- "AS LIKE THE WOMAN AS YOU CAN"
- "NO FAULT IN WOMEN"
- "ARE WOMEN FAIR?"
- A STRONG HAND
- WOMEN'S LONGING
- TRIOLET
- THE FAIR CIRCASSIAN
- THE FEMALE PHAETON
- THE LURE
- THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
- THE WOMAN WITH THE SERPENT'S TONGUE
- SUPPOSE
- TOO CANDID BY HALF
- FABLE
- WOMAN'S WILL
- WOMAN'S WILL
- PLAYS
- THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE
- THE NET OF LAW
- COLOGNE
- EPITAPH ON CHARLES II
- CERTAIN MAXIMS OF HAFIZ
- A BAKER'S DUZZEN UV WIZE SAWZ
- EPIGRAMS
- WRITTEN ON A LOOKING-GLASS
- AN EPITAPH
- ON THE ARISTOCRACY OF HARVARD
- ON THE DEMOCRACY OF YALE
- A GENERAL SUMMARY
- THE MIMICS
- AN OMAR FOR LADIES
- "WHEN LOVELY WOMAN"
- FRAGMENT IN IMITATION OF WORDSWORTH
- ONLY SEVEN
- LUCY LAKE
- JANE SMITH
- FATHER WILLIAM
- THE NEW ARRIVAL
- DISASTER
- 'TWAS EVER THUS
- A GRIEVANCE
- "NOT A SOU HAD HE GOT"
- THE WHITING AND THE SNAIL
- THE RECOGNITION
- THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL
- THE WILLOW-TREE
- POETS AND LINNETS
- THE JAM-POT
- BALLAD
- Part I
- Part II
- THE POSTER-GIRL
- AFTER DILETTANTE CONCETTI
- IF
- NEPHELIDIA
- COMMONPLACES
- THE PROMISSORY NOTE
- MRS. JUDGE JENKINS
- THE MODERN HIAWATHA
- HOW OFTEN
- "IF I SHOULD DIE TO-NIGHT"
- SINCERE FLATTERY
- CULTURE IN THE SLUMS
- THE POETS AT TEA
- WORDSWORTH
- THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE, INDEX TO ALL FOUR VOLUMES
- Edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson
- ALPHABETICAL INDEX
- THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE, VOLUME 2
- Edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson
- THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE, VOLUME 3
- Edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson
- THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE, VOLUME 4
- Edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson
- THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE, ALPHABETICAL INDEX
- Edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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