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Title: A Nonsense Anthology
Author: Collected by Carolyn Wells
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A NONSENSE
ANTHOLOGY ***
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Robert Prince and PG Distributed Proofreaders
He must be a fool indeed who cannot at times play the fool; and he who does
not enjoy nonsense must be lacking in sense.
WILLIAM J. ROLFE.
A Nonsense Anthology
Collected by Carolyn Wells
1910
TO
GELETT BURGESS
A NONSENSE LOVER
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
JABBERWOCKY Lewis Carroll MORS IABROCHII Anonymous THE
NYUM-NYUM Anonymous UFFIA Harriet R. White SPIRK TROLL-
DERISIVE James Whitcomb Riley THE WHANGO TREE 1840
SING FOR THE GARISH EYE W.S. Gilbert THE CRUISE OF THE “P.C.”
Anonymous TO MARIE Anonymous LUNAR STANZAS Henry Coggswell
Knight NONSENSE Anonymous, 1617
SONNET FOUND IN A DESERTED MAD HOUSE Anonymous THE OCEAN
WANDERER Anonymous SHE’S ALL MY FANCY PAINTED HIM Lewis
Carroll MY RECOLLECTEST THOUGHTS Charles E. Carryl FATHER
WILLIAM Anonymous IN THE GLOAMING James C. Bayles BALLAD OF
BEDLAM Punch ‘TIS SWEET TO ROAM Anonymous HYMN TO THE
SUNRISE Anonymous THE MOON IS UP Anonymous ‘T IS MIDNIGHT
Anonymous UPRISING SEE THE FITFUL LARK Anonymous LIKE TO THE
THUNDERING TONE Bishop Corbet MY DREAM Anonymous MY HOME
Anonymous IN IMMEMORIAM Cuthbert Bede THE HIGHER PANTHEISM
IN A NUTSHELL A. C. Swinburne DARWINITY Herman Merivale SONG OF
THE SCREW Anonymous MOORLANDS OF THE NOT Anonymous
METAPHYSICS Oliver Herford ABSTROSOPHY Gelett Burgess ABSTEMIA
Gelett Burgess PSYCHOLOPHON Gelett Burgess TIMON OF ARCHIMEDES
Charles Battell Loomis ALONE Anonymous LINES BY A MEDIUM
Anonymous TRANSCENDENTALISM From the Times of India
INDIFFERENCE Anonymous QUATRAIN Anonymous COSSIMBAZAR
Henry S. Leigh THE PERSONIFIED SENTIMENTAL Bret Harte A CLASSIC
ODE Charles Battell Loomis WHERE AVALANCHES WAIL Anonymous
BLUE MOONSHINE Francis G. Stokes NONSENSE Thomas Moore
SUPERIOR NONSENSE VERSES Anonymous WHEN MOONLIKE ORE
THE HAZURE SEAS W.M. Thackeray LINES BY A PERSON OF QUALITY
Alexander Pope FRANGIPANNI Anonymous LINES BY A FOND LOVER
Anonymous FORCING A WAY Anonymous THY HEART Anonymous A
LOVE-SONG BY A LUNATIC Anonymous THE PARTERRE E.H. Palmer TO
MOLLIDUSTA Planch
JOHN JONES A.C. Swinburne THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT Edward
Lear A BALLADE OF THE NURSERIE John Twig A BALLAD OF HIGH
ENDEAVOR Anonymous THE LUGUBRIOUS WHINGWHANG James
ENDEAVOR Anonymous THE LUGUBRIOUS WHINGWHANG James
Whitcomb Riley OH! WEARY MOTHER Barry Pain SWISS AIR Bret Harte
THE BULBUL Owen Seaman BALLAD Anonymous OH, MY GERALDINE
F.C. Burnand BUZ, QUOTH THE BLUE FLY Ben Jonson A SONG ON KING
WILLIAM III Anonymous THERE WAS A MONKEY Anonymous, 1626
THE GUINEA PIG Anonymous THREE CHILDREN London, 1662
IF Anonymous A RIDDLE Anonymous THREE JOVIAL HUNTSMEN
Anonymous THREE ACRES OF LAND Anonymous MASTER AND MAN
Anonymous HYDER IDDLE Anonymous KING ARTHUR Anonymous IN
THE DUMPS Anonymous TWEEDLE-DUM AND TWEEDLE-DEE
Anonymous MARTIN TO HIS MAN From Deuteromelia THE YONGHY-
BONGHY-BO Edward Lear THE POBBLE WHO HAS NO TOES Edward Lear
THE JUMBLIES Edward Lear INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MY UNCLE
ARLY
Edward Lear LINES TO A YOUNG LADY Edward Lear WAYS AND
MEANS Lewis Carroll THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER Lewis Carroll
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK Lewis Carroll SYLVIE AND BRUNO
Lewis Carroll GENTLE ALICE BROWN W.S. Gilbert THE STORY OF
PRINCE AGIB W.S. Gilbert FERDINANDO AND ELVIRA, OR THE
GENTLE PIEMAN
W.S. Gilbert GENERAL JOHN W. S. Gilbert LITTLE BILLEE W. M.
Thackeray THE WRECK OF THE “JULIE PLANTE” William H. Drummond
THE SHIPWRECK E. H. Palmer A SAILOR’S YARN J. J. Roche THE
WALLOPING WINDOW-BLIND Charles E. Carryl THE ROLLICKING
MASTODON Arthur Macy THE SILVER QUESTION Oliver Herford THE
SINGULAR SANGFROID OF BABY BUNTING
Guy Wetmore Carryl FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY Thomas Hood THE
ELDERLY GENTLEMAN George Canning MALUM OPUS James Appleton
Morgan STIVATION O. W. Holmes A HOLIDAY TASK Gilbert Abbott
Becket PUER EX JERSEY Anonymous THE LITTLE PEACH Anonymous
MONSIEUR McGINT Anonymous YE LAYE OF YE WOODPECKORE
Henry A. Beers COLLUSION BETWEEN A ALEGAITER AND A WATER-
SNAIK
