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The Oxford book of American light verse /

A collection of humorous poetry written by Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Melville, Dickinson, Harte, Field, Frost, Sandburg, Lindsay, Aiken, MacLeish, Nash, and other well-known and lesser-known Americans.

Други автори: Harmon, William, 1938-
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.
Предмети:
American poetry.
Humorous poetry, American.
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Съдържание:
  • Contents
  • Anonymous /
  • Yankee Doodle
  • Francis Hopkinson /
  • The Battle of the Kegs
  • St. George Tucker /
  • The Cynic
  • The Discontented Student
  • The Judge with the Sore Rump
  • Joel Barlow /
  • The Hasty Pudding (from "Canto I, Canto III")
  • Royall Tyler /
  • Anacreontic to Flip
  • The Widower
  • Original Epitaph on a Drunkard
  • Samuel Low /
  • To a Segar
  • John Quincy Adams /
  • The Wants of Man
  • To Sally
  • Clement Moore /
  • A Visit from St. Nicholas
  • Francis Scott Key /
  • To My Cousin Mary, for Mending My Tobacco Pouch
  • Written at the White Sulphur Springs
  • Fitz-Greene Halleck /
  • Fanny (Stanzas xlvi-lxviii)
  • Song
  • Lydia Huntley Sigourney /
  • God Save the Plough
  • George Moses Horton /
  • New Fashions
  • Snaps for Dinner, Snaps for Breakfast, and Snaps for Supper
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson /
  • Fable
  • The Test
  • Solution
  • Prudence
  • Nathaniel Parker Willis /
  • The Lady Jane: A Humorous Novel in Rhyme (Canto I, Stanzas xix-xxii and xci)
  • To the Lady in the Chemisette with Black Buttons
  • The Declaration
  • To Helen in a Huff
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow /
  • The Village Blacksmith
  • The Children's Hour
  • Paul Revere's Ride
  • John Greenleaf Whittier /
  • The Haschish
  • Barbara Frietchie
  • The Barefoot Boy
  • Skipper Ireson's Ride
  • Thomas Holley Chivers /
  • Lily Adair
  • The Moon of Mobile
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes /
  • The Height of the Ridiculous
  • Æstivation
  • The Deacon's Masterpiece
  • Ode for a Social Meeting
  • A Sea Dialogue
  • Edgar Allan Poe /
  • The Bells
  • James Thomas Fields /
  • The Owl Critic
  • Jupiter and Ten
  • James Russell Lowell /
  • In an Album
  • A Misconception
  • The Boss
  • from "The Biglow Papers" The Courtin'
  • Rev. Homer Wilbur's "Festina Lente"
  • Herman Melville /
  • In a Garret
  • The Bench of Boors
  • The Attic Landscape
  • The Lover and the Syringa-Bush
  • The New Ancient of Days
  • Walt Whitman /
  • A Boston Ballad
  • Charles Godfrey Leland /
  • Hans Breitmann's Party
  • Breitmann in Politics
  • Phoebe Cary /
  • Samuel Brown
  • The Day is Done
  • Jacob
  • William Allen Butler /
  • Nothing To Wear
  • Bayard Taylor /
  • The Ballad of Hiram Hover
  • Palabras Grandiosas
  • Nauvoo
  • Stephen Collins Foster /
  • Gwine To Run All Night; or, De Camptown Races
  • Oh! Susanna.
  • Anonymous /
  • The Little Brown Jug
  • Sweet Betsey from Pike
  • Clementine
  • Starving to Death on a Government Claim
  • The Factory Girl's Come-All-Ye
  • An Ode on Gas
  • John Townsend Trowbridge /
  • Darius Greene and His Flying-Machine
  • Recollections of "Lalla Rookh"
  • Filling an Order
  • Septimus Winner /
  • Ten Little Injuns
  • The Coolie Chinee
  • Lilliputian's Beer Song
  • Emily Dickinson /
  • A bird came down the walk
  • I like to see it lap the miles
  • His Mansion in the Pool
  • Mary Mapes Dodge /
  • The Zealless Xylographer
  • Edmund Clarence Stedman /
  • The Ballad of Lager Bier
  • George Arnold /
  • Beer
  • Charles H. Webb ("John Paul")/
  • Autumn Leaves
  • At the Ball!
  • Samuel Langhorne Clemens ("Mark Twain") /
  • The Aged Pilot Man (from "Roughing It")
  • Imitation of Julia A. Moore (from "Following the Equator")
  • Emmeline Grangerford's "Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd" (from "Huckleberry Finn")
  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich /
  • Fannie
  • At a Reading
  • Anonymous /
  • The Young Woman from Aenos
  • Bret Harte /
  • Colenso Rhymes for Orthodox Children
  • Schemmelfenning
  • Plain Language from Truthful James
  • The Society upon the Stanislaus
  • R.H. Newell ("Orpheus C. Kerr") /
  • The Rejected "National Hymns"
  • The American Traveller
  • Columbia's Agony
  • The Editor's Wooing
  • The Neutral British Gentleman
  • Tuscalossa Sam
  • Dear Father, Look Up
  • When Your Cheap Divorce Is Granted
  • O, Be Not Too Hasty, My Dearest
  • Innes Randolph /
  • The Rebel
  • Anonymous /
  • Two Appeals to John Harralson, Agent, Nitre and Mining Bureau, C.S.A.
  • John Hay /
  • The Pledge at Spunky Point
  • Good and Bad Luck
  • Charles E. Carryl /
  • A Nautical Ballad
  • Charles Heber Clark ("Max Adeler") /
  • Mr. Slimmer's Funeral Verses for the Morning Argus
  • Alexander McGlue
  • Willie
  • Johnny Smith
  • Hanner
  • Mrs. McFadden
  • Alexander
  • Charles Follen Adams /
  • To Bary Jade
  • Repartée
  • John Barley-Corn, My Foe
  • Misplaced Sympathy
  • My Infundibuliform Hat
  • Ambrose Bierce /
  • from "The Devil's Dictionary"
  • Body-Snatcher
  • Corporal
  • Egotist
  • Elegy
  • Lead
  • Nose
  • Orthography
  • Prospect
  • Safety-Clutch
  • Anonymous /
  • Willie the Weeper
  • No More Booze
  • The Drunkard and the Pig
  • Robert Jones Burdette /
  • Orphan Born
  • "Soldier, Rest!"
  • John B. Tabb /
  • Foot-Soldiers
  • Bicycles! Tricycles!
  • Close Quarters
  • A Rub
  • The Tryst
  • Julia A. Moore /
  • Grand Rapids
  • Ashtabula Disaster
  • Little Libbie
  • Sketch of Lord Byron's Life
  • James Whitcomb Riley /
  • Craqueodoom
  • A Rose in October
  • When the Frost Is on the Punkin
  • Little Orphant Annie
  • The Diners in the Kitchen
  • Ruth Mcenery Stuart /
  • The Endless Song
  • Fred Emerson Brooks /
  • Foreigners at the Fair
  • Barnyard Melodies
  • Eugene Field /
  • The Little Peach
  • Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
  • Little Boy Blue
  • The Duel
  • Samuel C. Bushnell /
  • Boston
  • Samuel Minturn Peck /
  • A Kiss in the Rain
  • John Philip Sousa /
  • The Feast of the Monkeys
  • Have You Seen the Lady?
  • H.C. Bunner /
  • Poetry and the Poet
  • "Home, Sweet Home", with Variations
  • Ben King /
  • If I Should Die
  • The Mermaid
  • The Hair-Tonic Bottle
  • The Cultured Girl Again
  • The Pessimist.
  • Anonymous /
  • Kentucky Moonshiner
  • Roy Bean
  • Sam Walter Foss /
  • Husband and Heathen
  • A Philosopher
  • Nixon Waterman /
  • Cheer for the Consumer
  • If We Didn't Have to Eat
  • Hamlin Garland /
  • Horses Chawin' Hay
  • Goin' Back T'morrer
  • Bliss Carman /
  • A More Ancient Mariner
  • Oliver Brook Herford /
  • The Fall of J.W. Beane
  • Eve
  • Ernest lawrence Thayer /
  • Casey at the Bat
  • Richard Hovey /
  • Eleazar Wheelock
  • Barney McGee
  • J. Gordon Coogler /
  • Alas! Carolina!
  • Alas! for the South!
  • To Amy
  • Byron
  • In Memorial
  • A Mustacheless Bard
  • A Pretty Girl
  • George Ade /
  • Il Janitoro
  • The Microbe's Serenade
  • R-E-M-O-R-S-E (from "The Sultan of Sulu")
  • Gelett Burgess /
  • The Purple Cow
  • Cinq Ans Aprés
  • Tom Masson /
  • Enough
  • My Poker Girl
  • A Tragedy
  • He Took Her
  • Bert Leston Taylor ("B.L.T.") /
  • Doxology
  • Those Flapjacks of Brown's
  • Upon Julia's Arctics
  • Aprilly
  • Edgar Lee Masters /
  • Jonathan Swift Somers
  • The Spooniad
  • Edwin Arlington Robinson /
  • Variations of Greek Themes (II, III, IV)
  • Carolyn Wells /
  • Diversions of the Re-Echo Club
  • John Palmer /
  • The Band Played On
  • Stephen Crane /
  • A man said to the universe
  • Tell me not in joyous numbers
  • Anonymous /
  • The Big Rock Candy Mountains
  • The Four Nights' Drunk
  • The Frozen Logger
  • T.A. Daly /
  • Pennsylvania Places
  • Arthur Guiterman /
  • Song of Hate for Eels
  • Heredity
  • Brief Essay on Man
  • Everything in Its Place
  • Ben Harney /
  • You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You've Done Broke Down
  • Mister Johnson
  • Guy Wetmore Carryl /
  • How a Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar /
  • The Domineering Eagle and the Inventive Bratling
  • Robert Frost /
  • Departmental
  • The Hardship of Accounting
  • A Considerable speck
  • For Travelers Going Sidereal
  • Pride of Ancestry
  • The Rose Family
  • Russell Hillard Loines /
  • On a Magazine Sonnet
  • Amy Lowell /
  • The Painted Ceiling
  • Epitaph on a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success
  • Gertrude Stein /
  • Sacred Emily
  • Andrew B. Sterling /
  • Under the Anheuser Bush
  • What You Goin' To Do When the Rent Comes 'Round?
  • Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
  • Anonymous /
  • Mademoiselle from Armentières
  • Wallace Irwin /
  • The Constant Cannibal Maiden
  • Hughie Cannon /
  • Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?
  • Anthony Euwer /
  • The True Facts of the Case
  • The Face
  • Don Marquis /
  • certain maxims of archy
  • archy at the zoo
  • Carl Sandburg /
  • from "The People, Yes"
  • Section 32
  • Section 41
  • Section 42
  • On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride
  • One Modern Poet
  • Vachel Lindsay /
  • The Little Turtle
  • Two Old Crows
  • Jack Norworth /
  • Take Me Out to the Ballgame
  • Wallace Stevens /
  • Depression Before Spring
  • The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
  • Franklin P. Adams ("F.P.A.") /
  • Composed in the Composing Room
  • Lines Where Beauty Lingers
  • The Double Standard
  • The Rich Man
  • If-
  • Witter Bynner /
  • To a President
  • Edgar A. Guest /
  • Home
  • Lemon Pie
  • Sausage
  • Joseph W. Stilwell /
  • Lyric to Spring
  • William Carlos Williams /
  • To a Poor Old Woman
  • Proletarian Portrait
  • To
  • To Greet a Letter-Carrier
  • These Purists
  • Ballad of Faith
  • Après le Bain
  • The Intelligent Sheepman and the New Cars
  • Keith Preston /
  • Lapsus Linguae
  • Effervescence and Evanescence
  • Ring Lardner /
  • Parodies of cole Porter's "Night and Day"
  • Hardly a man is now alive
  • Hail to thee, blithe owl
  • Quiescent, a person sits heart and soul
  • Abner Silver's "Pu-leeze! Mr. Hemingway!
  • Ezra Pound /
  • An Immorality
  • Meditatio
  • Tame Cat
  • Ancient Music
  • Cantico del Sole
  • Louis Untermeyer /
  • Song Tournament: New Style
  • Edgar A. Guest
  • Elinor Wylie /
  • Simon Gerty
  • Marianne Moore /
  • I May, I Might, I Must
  • Hometown Piece for Messers. Alston and Reese
  • W.S. Landor
  • T.S. Eliot /
  • Aunt Helen
  • Cousin Nancy
  • Lines to Ralph Hodgson, Esqre.
  • Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg
  • Newman Levy /
  • Tannhauser
  • Rigoletto
  • John Crowe Ransom /
  • Amphibious Crocodile
  • Philomela
  • Her Eyes
  • Our Two Worthies
  • Dog
  • Survey of Literature
  • Conrad Aiken /
  • Obituary in Bitcherel
  • There once was a wicked young minister
  • Animula vagula blandula
  • Sighed a dear little shipboard divinity
  • Stoddard King /
  • Hearth and Home
  • Breakfast Song in Time of Diet
  • The Difference
  • Samuel Hoffenstein /
  • Love-Songs, At Once Tender and Informative (I-XXIII)
  • Christopher Morley /
  • Elegy Written in a Country Coal-Bin
  • Forever Ambrosia
  • Archibald MacLeish /
  • Mother Goose's Garland
  • Corporate Entity
  • The End of the World
  • Critical Observations
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay /
  • From a Very Little Sphinx (I-VII).
  • Morris Bishop /
  • Gas and Hot Air
  • Bishop Orders His Tomb in St. Praxed's
  • How To Treat Elves
  • Who'd Be a Hero (Fictional)?
  • Maxwell Bodenheim /
  • Upper Family
  • Dorothy Parker /
  • Comment
  • Résumé
  • News Item
  • One Perfect Rose
  • Partial Comfort
  • Cole Porter /
  • Anything Goes
  • Let's Do It
  • My Heart Belongs to Daddy
  • You're the Top
  • Well, Did You Evah?
  • Brush Up Your Shakespeare
  • E.E. Cummings /
  • the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
  • twentyseven bums give a prostitute the once
  • Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal
  • slightly before the middle of Congressman Pudd
  • my sweet old etcetera
  • Q:dwo
  • flotsam and jetsam
  • a politician is an arse upon
  • meet mr universe (who clean ...
  • Bessie Smith /
  • Empy Bed Blues
  • Oscar Hammerstein II /
  • Kansas City
  • Money Isn't Everything!
  • There Is Nothin' Like a Dame
  • Lorenz Hart /
  • Manhattan
  • Mountain Greenery
  • The Blue Room
  • The Lady Is a Tramp
  • The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
  • Robert Hillyer /
  • Moo!
  • Edmund Wilson /
  • Drafts for a Quatrain
  • Something for My Russian Friends
  • Ira Gershwin /
  • It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Blah, Blah, Blah
  • Kenneth Burke /
  • Nursery Rhyme
  • Frigate Jones, the Pussyfooter
  • Civil Defense
  • Know Thyself
  • David McCord /
  • The Axolotl
  • Gloss
  • To a Certain Most Certainly Certain Critic
  • Mantis
  • Baccalaureate
  • History of Education
  • Epitaph on a Waiter
  • Anonymous /
  • The heavyweight champ of Seattle
  • Stephen Vincent Benét /
  • American Names
  • Hymn in Columbus Circle
  • A Nonsense Song
  • Ernest Hemingway /
  • The Ernest Liberal's Lament
  • Neo-Thomist Poem
  • Valentine
  • Vladimir Nabokov /
  • A Literary Dinner
  • Ode to a Model
  • Billy Rose /
  • Barney Google
  • Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?
  • E.B. White /
  • Marble-Top
  • Window Ledge in the Atom Age
  • Langston Hughes /
  • Bad Morning
  • Wake
  • What?
  • Little Lyric
  • Ennui
  • Situation
  • Be-Bop Boys
  • Hope
  • Ogden Nash /
  • Invocation
  • Song of the Open Road
  • Lines to a World-Famous Poet Who Failed To Complete a World-Famous Poem; or, Come Clean, Mr. Guest!
  • The Turtle
  • The Panther
  • The Rhinoceros
  • Genealogical Reflection
  • They Don't Speak English in Paris
  • Adventures of Isabel
  • The Ant
  • Reflection on Ice-Breaking
  • Countee Cullen /
  • For a Lady I Know
  • For a Mouthy Woman.
  • Richard Eberhart /
  • I Went To See Irving Babbitt
  • Stanley Kunitz /
  • The Summing-up
  • Phyllis McGinley /
  • Publisher's Party
  • About Children
  • Evening Musicale
  • Kenneth Rexroth /
  • Fact
  • A Bestiary
  • Observations in a Cornish Teashop
  • Robert Penn Warren /
  • Man in the Street
  • Helen Bevington /
  • Mr. Rockefeller's Hat
  • Penguins in the Home
  • Mrs. Trollope in America
  • W.H. Suden /
  • The Asethetic Point of View
  • Henry Adams
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Theodore Roethke /
  • Academic
  • Dinky
  • The Cow
  • The Sloth
  • The Kitty-Cat Bird
  • A Rouse for Stevens
  • Johnny Mercer /
  • I'm an Old Cowhand
  • Jubilation T. Cornpone
  • The Glow-worm
  • Elder Olson /
  • Childe Roland, etc.
  • Peter Devries /
  • Beth Appleyard's Verses
  • Loveliest of Pies
  • Bacchanal
  • Psychiatrist
  • Frank Loesser /
  • Guys and Dolls
  • J.V. Cunningham /
  • from "Doctor Drink" (3 and 4)
  • Uncollected Poems and Epigrams
  • Richard Harter Fogle /
  • A Hawthorne Garland
  • Anonymous /
  • The Virtues of Carnation Milk
  • JOhn Berryman /
  • Dream Song #4
  • American Lights, Seen from Off Abroad
  • George Hitchock /
  • Three Found Poems
  • Randall Jarrell /
  • The Blind Sheep
  • William Stafford /
  • Religion Back Home
  • Tennessee Williams /
  • Carrousel Time
  • Sugar in the Cane
  • Kitchen Door Blues
  • Gold Tooth Blues
  • Reuel Denney /
  • Fixer of Midnight
  • John Ciardi /
  • Ballad of the Icondic
  • Goodnight
  • Dawn of the Space Age
  • To a Reviewer Who Admired My Book
  • On Evolution
  • Peter Viereck /
  • 1912-1952, Full Cycle
  • William Jay Smith /
  • Dachshunds
  • Random Generation of English Sentences; or, The Revenge of the Poets
  • William Cole /
  • Marriage Couplet
  • Mutual Problem
  • Poor Kid
  • Mysterious East
  • What a Friend We Have in Chesses!
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti /
  • Underwear
  • Max Shulman /
  • Honest Abe Lincoln-
  • Howard Nemerov /
  • Epigrams
  • Howard Moss /
  • Cats and Dogs
  • Alan Dugan /
  • On a Seven-Day Diary
  • Anthony Hecht /
  • The Dover Bitch
  • Improvisations on Aesop
  • Firmness
  • From the Grove Press
  • Vice
  • Norman Mailer /
  • Devils
  • Louis Simpson /
  • New Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg
  • On the Lawn at the Villa
  • Edward Gorey /
  • There was young woman named Plunnery
  • Some Harvard men, stalwart and hairy
  • The babe, with a cry brief and dismal
  • A lady who signs herself "Vexed"
  • From the bathing machine came a din
  • Carolyn Kizer /
  • One to Nothing
  • Kenneth Koch /
  • A Poem of the Forty-eight States
  • A.R. Ammons /
  • First Carolina Said-Song
  • Second Carolina Said-Song
  • Auto Mobile
  • Chasm
  • Needs
  • Cleavage
  • Coward.
  • Robert Creeley /
  • She Went to Stay
  • Ballad of the Despairing Husband
  • The Man
  • Allen Ginsberg /
  • Bop Lyrics
  • Frank O'Hara /
  • To the Film Industry in Crisis
  • James Merrill /
  • Tomorrows
  • James Wright /
  • Love in a Warm Room in Winter
  • Donald Hall /
  • To a Waterfowl
  • Professor Gratt
  • Breasts
  • John Hollander /
  • To the Lady Protrayed by Margaret Dumont
  • Heliogabalus
  • Last Words
  • Appearance and Reality
  • Historical Reflections
  • No Foundation
  • X.J. Kennedy /
  • In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day
  • Japanese Beetles
  • Last Lines
  • Jonathan Williams /
  • The Hermit Cackleberry Brown, on Human Vanity
  • Uncle Iv Surveys His Domain from His Rocker of a Sunday Afternoon as Aunt Dory Starts to Chop Kindling
  • Mrs. Sadie Grindstaff, Weaver and Factotum, Explains the Work-Principle to the Modern World
  • Three Sayings from Highlands, North Carolina
  • The Anthropophagites See a Sign on NC Highway 177 That Looks Like Heaven
  • John Barth /
  • The Minister's Last Lay (from "Anonymiad")
  • Gregory Corso /
  • Marriage
  • Stephen Sondheim /
  • Gee, Officer Krupke
  • George Starbuck /
  • On First Looking in on Blodgett's Keat's "Chapman's Homer"
  • High Renaissance
  • Chip
  • Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line
  • Said (J. Alfred Prufrock)
  • Said (Agatha Christie)
  • Monarch of the Sea
  • John Updike /
  • The Amish
  • I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name
  • Recital
  • Robert Sward
  • American Heritage
  • Michael Benedikt /
  • Fate in Incognito
  • William Harmon /
  • Bureaucratic Limerick
  • Charles Simic /
  • Watermelons
  • Roy Blount, Jr. /
  • Against Broccoli
  • For the Record
  • Gryll's State
  • Nikki Giovanni /
  • Master Charge Blues
  • Poem for Unwed Mothers
  • James Tate /
  • My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry
  • The President Slumming
  • Conjuring Roethke
  • Kathleen Norris /
  • Stomach
  • Memorandum/The Accountant's Notebook.

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