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The Book of Humorous Verse
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The Played-Out Humorist _W. S. Gilbert_ 25
The Practical Joker _W. S. Gilbert_ 26
To Ph[oe]be _W. S. Gilbert_ 28
Malbrouck _Father Prout_ 29
Mark A Pipe Dream _Oliver Herford_ 30
From a Full Heart _A. A. Milne_ 31
The Ultimate Joy _Unknown_ 32
Old Fashioned Fun _W. M. Thackeray_ 33
When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas _W. M. Thackeray_ 34
When the Frost is on the Punkin _James Whitcomb Riley_ 34
Two Men _Edwin Arlington Robinson_ 35
A Familiar Letter to Several
Correspondents _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 36
The Height of the Ridiculous _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 38
Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe _H. C. Bunner_ 40
A Rondelay _Peter A. Motteux_ 41
Winter Dusk _R. K. Munkittrick_ 42
Comic Miseries _John G. Saxe_ 42
Early Rising _John G. Saxe_ 44
To the Pliocene Skull _Bret Harte_ 46
Ode to Work in Springtime _Thomas R. Ybarra_ 47
Old Stuff _Bert Leston Taylor_ 48
To Minerva _Thomas Hood_ 49
The Legend of Heinz Von Stein _Charles Godfrey Leland_ 49
The Truth About Horace _Eugene Field_ 50
Propinquity Needed _Charles Battell Loomis_ 51
In the Catacombs _Harlan Hoge Ballard_ 52
Our Native Birds _Nathan Haskell Dole_ 53
The Prayer of Cyrus Brown _Sam Walter Foss_ 54
Erring in Company _Franklin P. Adams_ 55
Cupid _William Blake_ 56
If We Didn't Have to Eat _Nixon Waterman_ 57
To My Empty Purse _Geoffrey Chaucer_ 58
The Birth of Saint Patrick _Samuel Lover_ 58
Her Little Feet _William Ernest Henley_ 59
School _James Kenneth Stephen_ 60
The Millennium _James Kenneth Stephen_ 60
MANY MORE!!
The Played-Out Humorist _W. S. Gilbert_ 25
The Practical Joker _W. S. Gilbert_ 26
To Ph[oe]be _W. S. Gilbert_ 28
Malbrouck _Father Prout_ 29
Mark A Pipe Dream _Oliver Herford_ 30
From a Full Heart _A. A. Milne_ 31
The Ultimate Joy _Unknown_ 32
Old Fashioned Fun _W. M. Thackeray_ 33
When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas _W. M. Thackeray_ 34
When the Frost is on the Punkin _James Whitcomb Riley_ 34
Two Men _Edwin Arlington Robinson_ 35
A Familiar Letter to Several
Correspondents _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 36
The Height of the Ridiculous _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 38
Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe _H. C. Bunner_ 40
A Rondelay _Peter A. Motteux_ 41
Winter Dusk _R. K. Munkittrick_ 42
Comic Miseries _John G. Saxe_ 42
Early Rising _John G. Saxe_ 44
To the Pliocene Skull _Bret Harte_ 46
Ode to Work in Springtime _Thomas R. Ybarra_ 47
Old Stuff _Bert Leston Taylor_ 48
To Minerva _Thomas Hood_ 49
The Legend of Heinz Von Stein _Charles Godfrey Leland_ 49
The Truth About Horace _Eugene Field_ 50
Propinquity Needed _Charles Battell Loomis_ 51
In the Catacombs _Harlan Hoge Ballard_ 52
Our Native Birds _Nathan Haskell Dole_ 53
The Prayer of Cyrus Brown _Sam Walter Foss_ 54
Erring in Company _Franklin P. Adams_ 55
Cupid _William Blake_ 56
If We Didn't Have to Eat _Nixon Waterman_ 57
To My Empty Purse _Geoffrey Chaucer_ 58
The Birth of Saint Patrick _Samuel Lover_ 58
Her Little Feet _William Ernest Henley_ 59
School _James Kenneth Stephen_ 60
The Millennium _James Kenneth Stephen_ 60
MANY MORE!!
600 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1920
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About the author
Carolyn Wells
824 books47 followersCarolyn Wells was a prolific writer for over 40 years and was especially noted for her humor, and she was a frequent contributor of nonsense verse and whimsical pieces to such little magazines as Gelett Burgess' The Lark, the Chap Book, the Yellow Book, and the Philistine.
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October 22, 2014
I do recommend reading, for this is a funny book on verses of different topics!
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