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The Oxford book of American light verse
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.
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0195025091, 9780195025095
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1, 540 pages ; 23 cm
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| Brewster Ladies' Library - Adult | 811.07 OXF | On Shelf |
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Table of Contents
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 / Empty 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 Portrayed 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 --
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.
Language
English
ISBN
0195025091, 9780195025095
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Includes index.
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Harmon, W. (1979). The Oxford book of American light verse . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harmon, William, 1938-. 1979. The Oxford Book of American Light Verse. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harmon, William, 1938-. The Oxford Book of American Light Verse Oxford University Press, 1979.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Harmon, William. The Oxford Book of American Light Verse Oxford University Press, 1979.
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