I love a man who’ll smile and joke When with misfortune crowned; Who’ll pun beneath a pauper’s yoke… And as he breaks his daily toke, Conundrums gay propound.

PART I. At a pleasant evening party I had… One whom I will call ELVIRA, a… MR. TUPPER and the Poets, very… For I’ve always been distinguishe…

DRAMATIS PERSONAE THE LEARNED JUDGE THE PLAINTIFF THE DEFENDANT COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTI…

Mr. Blake was a regular out-and-o… Who was quite out of the pale of… He was in the habit of smoking a l… grog on a Sunday after dinner, And seldom thought of going to chu…

When all night long a chap remains On sentry-go, to chase monotony He exercises of his brains, That is, assuming that he’s got an… Though never nurtured in the lap

When you’re lying awake with a dis… taboo’d by anxiety, I conceive you may use any languag… without impropriety; For your brain is on fire - the be…

When you find you’re a broken-down… Who is all of a trimmle and twitte… With your palate unpleasantly bitt… As if you’d just bitten a pill - When your legs are as thin as divi…

I stole the Prince, and I brought… And left him, gaily prattling With a highly respectable Gondoli… Who promised the Royal babe to re… And teach him the trade of a timon…

What time the poet hath hymned The writhing maid, lithe-limbed, Quivering on amaranthine asphodel, How can he paint her woes, Knowing, as well he knows,

The bravest names for fire and fla… And all that mortal durst, Were GENERAL JOHN and P… Of the Sixty-seventy-first. GENERAL JOHN was a soldier tr…

On all Arcadia’s sunny plain, On all Arcadia’s hill, None were so blithe as BILL and… So blithe as JANE and BILL. No social earthquake e’er occurred

From east and south the holy clan Of Bishops gathered to a man; To Synod, called Pan-Anglican, In flocking crowds they came. Among them was a Bishop, who

Comes the broken flower - Comes the cheated maid - Though the tempest lower, Rain and cloud will fade! Take, O maid, these posies:

I am the very pattern of a modern… I’ve information vegetable, animal… I know the kings of England, and… From Marathon to Waterloo, in ord… I’m very well acquainted, too, wit…

Sir GUY was a doughty crusader, A muscular knight, Ever ready to fight, A very determined invader, And DICKEY DE LION’S deligh…