The New Oxford Book of Light VerseKingsley Amis Kingsley Amis has achieved his main objective in compiling The New Oxford Book of Light Verse--to raise a good-natured smile--by providing a witty and consistently entertaining survey of this tradition of English Writing. The book ranges from satire to nonsense verse, from deft vers de societe to epigrams and limericks. |
Contents
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 15641616 | 1 |
ANONYMOUS | 2 |
ANDREW MARVELL 16211678 | 12 |
The Disabled Debauchee | 18 |
WILLIAM WALSH 16631708 | 24 |
JOHN GAY 16851732 | 33 |
Drinking Song | 35 |
The Vicar of Bray | 36 |
A Plea for Trigamy | 189 |
The Sitting Bard | 190 |
RUDYARD KIPLING 18651936 | 192 |
HILAIRE BELLOC 18701953 | 193 |
Lord Finchley | 194 |
Rebecca who slammed doors for fun | 195 |
DEANE 18701946 | 196 |
The Cult of the Celtic | 197 |
Were All Dry JOHN BYROM 16921763 | 38 |
Epigram | 41 |
Extempore Intended to Allay the Violence of Party Spirit 27 Four Epigrams on the Naturalization Bill | 42 |
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 17061790 | 43 |
SAMUEL JOHNSON 17091784 | 44 |
The Som Came in 32 Trip upon Trenchers | 45 |
THOMAS GRAY 17161771 | 46 |
On Prince Frederick | 47 |
Rubadubdub 36 Tweedledum and Tweedledee 37 Baby Baby | 48 |
ROBERT SOUTHEY 17741843 | 49 |
To a Goose | 50 |
EBENEZER ELLIOTT 17811849 | 51 |
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 17851866 | 53 |
53 | 72 |
ANONYMOUS | 80 |
Portrait of a Lady | 93 |
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 18091892 | 99 |
THACKERAY 18111863 | 101 |
The Sorrows of Werther | 102 |
EDWARD LEAR 18121888 | 103 |
Limericks | 104 |
ROBERT BROWNING 18121889 | 105 |
SHIRLEY BROOKS 18161874 | 107 |
To Disraeli | 108 |
FREDERICK LOCKERLAMPSON 18211895 | 109 |
G LELAND 18241903 | 110 |
Ballad by Hans Breitmann III | 111 |
I Saw a Fishpond | 113 |
Forever | 115 |
The Schoolmaster Abroad with his Son | 116 |
Lines on Hearing the Organ | 117 |
In the Gloaming | 120 |
from Dover to Munich | 121 |
LEWIS CARROLL 18321898 | 125 |
Twinkle twinkle little bat | 126 |
Jabberwocky | 127 |
The Walrus and the Carpenter | 128 |
The White Knights Song | 131 |
Hiawathas Photographing | 134 |
H J BYRON 18341884 | 138 |
GODFREY TURNER A 1878 | 140 |
The Journal of Society | 144 |
W S GILBERT 18361911 | 145 |
The Englishman | 146 |
The Modern MajorGeneral | 147 |
The Policemans Lot | 148 |
A Nightmare | 151 |
HENRY S LEIGH 18371883 | 153 |
BRET HARTE 18391902 | 154 |
Further Language from Truthful James | 156 |
AUSTIN DOBSON 18401921 | 158 |
THOMAS HARDY 18401928 | 159 |
The Ruined Maid | 160 |
E H PALMER 18401882 | 161 |
ANDREW LANG 18441912 | 162 |
STEVENSON 18501894 | 163 |
HILTON 18511877 | 165 |
GODLEY 18561925 | 168 |
The Motor Bus | 170 |
J K STEPHEN 18591892 | 171 |
On a Rhine Steamer | 172 |
Drinking Song | 173 |
Sincere Flattery i of R B | 174 |
ii of W W | 175 |
A Sonnet | 176 |
Occasional Poem | 179 |
KENNETH GRAHAME 18591932 | 180 |
Gasbags | 181 |
The Tale of Lord Lovell | 182 |
WALTER RALEIGH 18611922 | 183 |
OWEN SEAMAN 18611936 | 184 |
England Expects? 187 888 | 187 |
MAX BEERBOHM 18721956 | 198 |
A Luncheon | 199 |
The Bards | 200 |
G K CHESTERTON 18741936 | 201 |
A Ballad of Abbreviations | 204 |
Antichrist or The Reunion of Christendom | 205 |
The Rolling English Road | 206 |
ROBERT FROST 18741963 | 207 |
BENTLEY 18751956 | 208 |
WALLACE IRWIN 18751959 | 209 |
KNOX 18811971 | 210 |
P G WODEHOUSE 18811976 | 211 |
The Gourmets LoveSong | 213 |
SQUIRE 18841958 | 214 |
RUPERT BROOKE 18871915 | 215 |
Sonnet Reversed | 216 |
W R INGE 18601954 M E HARE 18861967 | 222 |
J B MORTON 1893 | 228 |
S LEWIS 18981963 | 234 |
ROY CAMPBELL 19021957 | 240 |
Clerihew | 242 |
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY 1905 | 244 |
ANTHONY POWELL 1905 | 245 |
JOHN BETJEMAN 1906 | 249 |
A Subalterns Lovesong | 251 |
Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm | 252 |
Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden | 253 |
How to Get On in Society | 254 |
Longfellows Visit to Venice | 255 |
LOUIS MACNEICE 19071963 | 256 |
from Autumn Journal | 258 |
The Unknown Citizen | 259 |
from Letter to Lord Byron | 260 |
Under Which Lyre | 264 |
On the Circuit | 269 |
Doggerel by a Senior Citizen | 271 |
WYNFORD VAUGHANTHOMAS 1908 | 273 |
To His NotSoCoy Mistress | 274 |
OSBERT LANCASTER 1908 | 275 |
PETER DE VRIES 1910 | 277 |
STANLEY J SHARPLESS 1910 | 278 |
TED PAUKER 1917 | 284 |
Limeraiku | 291 |
EDWARD BLISHEN 1920 | 297 |
Royalties | 298 |
Buy One Now | 299 |
VERNON SCANNELL 1922 | 300 |
es 3 333 | 302 |
from The Evans Country | 303 |
17 | 305 |
PHILIP LARKIN 1922 | 308 |
Toads Revisited | 310 |
Remember I Remember | 311 |
Selfs the Man | 312 |
A Study of Reading Habits | 313 |
Annus Mirabilis | 314 |
ANTHONY BRODE 1923 | 315 |
DESMOND SKIRROW 19241976 | 316 |
JAMES MICHIE 1927 | 317 |
CHARLES TOMLINSON 1927 | 318 |
MARTIN FAGG 1929 | 319 |
GEORGE MACBETH 1932 | 321 |
The Orlando Commercial | 323 |
18 | 336 |
36 | 337 |
38 | 340 |
41 | 341 |
46 | 343 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 18091894 | 344 |
48 | 346 |
51 | 347 |
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