Innocent merriment, an anthology of light verse / selected by Franklin P. Adams ("F. P.A.").

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960, compiler.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

American poetry.

English wit and humor.

American wit and humor.

Humorous poetry, English.

Humorous poetry, American.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 523 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Pub. Co., [1945]

Contents:

Aaron Burr, by Benet

Ad Persephonen, by Adams

Admiral Byrd, by Nash

Advice from an Expert, by Kieran

Advice to a Young Man of Letters..., by Edman

Aestivation, by Holmes

Affadavit in Platitudes, by White

After Reading Twenty Years..., by Skene

Ain't Nature Commonplace, by Guiterman

Allegro, by McM.

America, I Love you, by Kalmar and Ruby

An Unserer Beach, by Stein

Anacreon to the Sophist, by B.H.

Anatomy of Humor, by Bishop

Andrew Jackson, by Benet

Annual Solution, by Robinson

Another Cynical Variation, by Helen

Answer to Master Wither's Song..., by Jonson

Anthologistics, by Guiterman

Antigonish, by Mearns

Apex, by Salsbury

Apostrophe to a Pram Rider, by White

Artist, by Mercer

At the Ball Game, by Field

Ataraxia, by Taylor

Bachelor's Ballade, by Parry

Baker's Duzzen, by Still

Ballad, by Calverly

Ballad, by Carryl

Ballad of Bouillabaisse, by Thackeray

Ballad of Cassandra Brown, by Cone

Ballad of Charity, by Leland

Ballad of the Faithful Clerk, by Stillman

Ballade of Big Plans, by Parker

Ballade of Soporific Absorption, by Squire

Ballade of Suicide, by Chesterton

Ballade of the Ancient Wheeze, by Salsbury and Levy

Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals, by Parker

Barney McGee, by Hovey

Baseball's Sad Lexicon, by Adams

Battle of Blenheim, by Southey

Behold the Deeds!, by Bunner

Belief, by Bartlett

Belle of the Ball-Room, by Praed

Biography, by Struther

Biter Bit, by Aytoun

Blow Me Eyes!, by Irwin

Boston Nursery Rhymes, by Cook

Britannia Rules of Orthography, by Firth

Broken Pitcher, by Aytoun

Busy Body, by Field

Buxom Joan, by Congreve

Canopus, by Taylor

Casey at the Bat, by Thayer

Casey's Daughter at the Bat, by Graham

Centipede, by Adams

Certain Maxims of Archy, by Marquis

Chant Royal from a Copydesk, by Terral

Chantey of Notorious Bibbers, by Robinson

Chemist to His Love, by Unknown

Christopher Columbus, by Adams

Circus, by White

Clink of the Ice, by Field

Cock and the Bull, by Calverley

Coda, by Parker

College Song, by Anthony

Cologne, by Coleridge

Comfort in Affliction, by Aytoun

Compromise, by McKinney

Conservative Shepherd to His Love, by D'Arcy

Constitution for a League of Nations, by Guiterman

Contented Bachelor, by Kendall

Contented Man, by Pope

Contentment, by Holmes

Conversation, by Dewey

Conversational Reformer, by Graham

Counselor, by Lowell

Crystal Palace, by Thackeray

Culture in the Slums, by Henley

Cupid, by Jonson

Cupid Mistaken, by Prior

Curse of Faint Praise, by Edman

Cynical Portraits, by Paul

Daily Paradox, by Hay

Danger of Writing Defiant Verse, by parker

Daphne and Apollo, by Macy

Darius Green and His Flying Machine, by Trowbridge

Dark Girl's Rhyme, by Parker

Darwinity, by Merivale

Deacon's Masterpiece, by Holmes

Dear Fanny, by Moore

Debutantrum, by Benet

Delight in Disorder, by Herrick

Dilemma, by Parker

Dirge, by Croffut

Diverting History of John Gilpin, by Cowper

Domicile of John, by Pope

Dorothy Q, by Holmes

Early Rising, by Saxe

Eastern Serenade, by Aytoun and Martin

Ego Sum, by Burgess

Elegy, by Guiterman

Elegy, by Goldsmith

Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen, by Gilbert

Emily, John, James, and I, by Gilbert

On a Parisian Boulevard, by Stephen

On a Rhine Steamer, by Stephen

Epilogue to a Book of Verse, by Guiterman

Epitaph Intended for His Wife, by Dreyden

Epitaph on a Well-known Poet, by Moore

Evening Primrose, by Parker

Evidence, by Kober

Exit God, by Bradford

Experience, by Parker, Experts on Woman, by Guiterman

Fable, by Emerson

Faithless Nelly Gray, by Thomas Hood

Familiar Letter to Several..., by Holmes

Family Fool, by Gilbert

Famous Ballad of the Jubilee Cup, by Quiller-Couch

Father William, by Carroll

February 14, 22 B.C., by Adams

Fighting Words, by Parker

Finale, by Herbert

First Love, by Calverley

Flower for a Professor's Garden of Verses, by Edman

Folly of Brown, by Gilbert

For a Little Lady, by Saidy

For My Father, by Field

Forever, by Calverley

Forg, by Belloc

From a Full Heart, by Milne

Frustrate, by Untermeyer

Garland of Recital Programs, by Adams

Gentle Alice Brown, by Gilbert

Golf Links, by Cleghorn

Good and Bad Luck, by Hay

Gospel of Mr. Pepys, by Morley

Groaning Board, by Pink

Grub Street Recessional, by Morley

Haec Olim Meminisse Iuvabit, by Taylor

Half Hours with the Classics, by De Burgh

Happy LIfetime to You, by Adams

Harvesting, by Robinson

Here Is the Tale, by Deane

Historical Incidents, by Day

Home, Sweet Home with Variations, by Bunner

House of Peers, by Gilbert

How the Helpmate of Blue-Beard..., by Carryl

Mr. W. H. Davis, by Squire

Sir Henry Newbold, by Squire

Hundred Best Books, by Pigott

I Wonder What Became of Rand, McNally, by Levy

Ideal Husband to His Wife, by Foss

If I Should Die To-Night, by King

Imitation of Robert Browning, by Stephen

In Parise of Commonplace, by Seaman

In the Gloaming, by Calverley

In Winter, by Bretherton

Inflamed Disciple, by Kramer

Intermezzo for the Fourth Act, by White

Jabberwocky, by Cooper

Jacob, by Cary

Japanese, by Nash

Jenny Kissed Me, by Hunt

Jessie, by Field

Joys of Marriage, by Cotton

Justice to Scotland, by Unknown

Kindness to Animals, by Ashby-Sterry

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, by Marquis

King Goodheart, by Gilbert

Kiss-fest, by Edman

Knife-Grinder, by Canning

La Donna E Mobile, by A.K.

Lacquer Liquor Locker, by McCord

Lady Jane, by Quiller-Couch

Lament, by Burgess

Later Antigonishes, by Mearns

Latest Decalogue, by Clough

Law of Averages, by Troubadour

Lay of Ancient Rome, by Ybarra

Lay of the Deserted Influenzaed, by Cholmondeley-Pennell

Lessons in Limericks, by McCord

Life, by Adams

Lines by a Person of Quality, by Pope

Lines on Hearing the Organ, by Caverley

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern, by Keats

Lines Suggested by the Fourteenth of February, by Calverley

Lines to a Man Who Thinks that Apple Betty..., by Kaufman

Lines to a Young Lady, by Lear

Lines Written After a Battle, by Unknown

LLines Written on n November 15, 1933..., by Hamilton

Little Old Lady In Lavender Silk, by Parker

Little Star, by unknown

Lost Mr. Blake, by Gilbert

Love Is Like a Dizziness, by Hogg

Love Song, by Parker

Lover's Resolution, by Wither

Mama's Advice, by Stein

Man in the Moon, by Rileley

Manila, by Ware

Martial in London, by Collins

Mary and the Lamb, by Sherman

Mavrone, by Guiterman

Mehitabel Sings a Song, by Marquis

Merry Month, by Miss X and Miss Y

Mia Carlotta, by Daly

Might and Right, by Day

Miniver Cheevy, by Robinson

Miniver Cheevy, Jr., by Parry

Missouri Maiden's Farewell to Alabama, by Clemens

Modern Hiawatha, by Strong

Modern Major-General, by Gilbert

My Angeline, by Smith

My Sabine Farm, by Field

Neighbors, by Lennox

Nephelidia, by Swinburne

New Hellas, by Edman

New Song, by Gay

Nonsense, by Moore

Not Quite Fair, by Leigh

Nun, by Hunt

O Mistress Mine, by Shakespeare

Obit on Parnassus, by Fitzgerald

Ode to Eve, by Robinson

Ode to the Human Heart, by Blanchard

Ode to the Nightingale, by Kendall

Ode to Tobacco, by Calverley

Of Beauty, by Fanshaw

Officer Brady, by Chambers

Old Bill's Memory Book, by Benet

Old Fashioned Fun, by Thackeray

Old Grimes, by Greene

Old Hokum Buncombe, by Sherwood

Old Songs, by Seaman

On a Girdle, by Waller

On an Intaglio Head of Minerva, by Aldrich

On Being Told that One's Ideas are Victorian, by Hay

On the Death of a Favorite Cat..., by Gray

Original Lamb, by Unknown

Ornithology in Florida, by Guiterman

Osculation, by Harrison

Our Traveller, by Cholmondeley-Pennell

Our Village..., by Hood

P Is for Paleontology, by Bracker

Passionate Encyclopedia Reader..., by Maggie

Pendulum Rhyme, by Robinson

Penny Whistle Blues, by Island

Pensees de Noel, by Godley

Pernicious Weed, by Cowper

Pessimist, by King

Plain Language from Truthful James, by Harte

Poem for Mother's Day, by Fishback

Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing, by Hoffenstein

Poems of Passion, Carefully Restrained..., by Hoffenstein

Post-Impressionism, by Taylor

Poster Girl, by Wells

Precious Stones, by Calverley

Professors, by Larrabee

Prologue to a Saga, by Parket

Propinquity Needed, by Loomis

Prosit Neujahr, by Santayana

Public Aid for Niagara Falls, by Biship

Pygmalion, by Miller

R.I.P, by Struther

Razor Seller, by Wolcot

Reasons for Drinking, by Aldrich

Reflection, by Stein

Rejected National Hymns, by Newell

Religion of the Hudibras, by Butler

Reporters, by Levy

Resolution, by Wiolar

Reversible Metaphor, by Troubadour

Rewared of Virtue, by Guiterman

Rhyme of the Rail, by Saxe

Rich Man, by Adams

Rise and Fall of Valentines, by Downey

Robinson Crusoe's Story, by Carryl

Rock of Rubies, by Herrick

Romeo and Juliet, by Scott

Rosarie, by Herrick

Rural Bliss, by Deane

Rustic Song, by Deane

Sad Story, by Day

St. Patrick of Ireland..., by Maginn

Sally in Our Alley, by Carey

Seamy Side of Motley, by Seaman

Sehnsucht..., by Corinna

Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe, by Bunner

She is Overheard Singing, by Millay

Shopping Day, by Johns

Sigh No More, Ladies, by Shakespeare

Simon Legree..., by Lindsay

Sincere Flattery, by Stephen

Sir Christopher Wren, by Bentley

Skipper Ireson's Ride, by Whittier

Snowfall, by I.V.S.W.

Society Upon the Stanislaus, by Harte

Some Beautiful Letters, by Parker

Song, by Congreve

Song, by Donner

Song, by Lovelace

Song, by Sedley

Song, by Woodberry

Song for a Cracked Voice, by Irwin

Song of Impossibilities, by Praed

Song of Perfect Propriety, by Parker

Song to My Love, by McKinney

Sorrows of Werther, by Thackeray

Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown, by Keats

Spring, by Johns

Spring Lay, by Opdyke

Spring Signs, by Field

Stairs, by Herford

Story, by Parket

Story of Prince Agib, by Gilbert

Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink, by Kipling

Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven, by Carryl

Take Nothing for Granit, by Salsbury

Tale of the Dixie-Belle, by Chase

Tattooed Man, by Smith

Terrible Infant, by Locker-Lampson

Thais, by Levy

Thalia, by Aldrich

That Did in Luve So Lively Write, by Adams

Thenot Protests, by C.N.S.

This Smoking World, by Hemminger

Thomas Winterbottom Hance, by Gilbert

Threnody, by Parker

Threnody, by Lanigan

Thursday, by Millay

Tides of Love, by Daly

Time to be Wise, by Landor

Tirade on Tea, by McGinley

To a Lady Across the Way, by White

To a Lady Troubled by Insomnia, by Adams

To an Ungentle Critic, by Graves

To an Unknown Neighbor at the Circus, by Benet

To Be Continued, by Street and Flagg

To Harold Jacoby, by Edman

To Minerva, by Hood

To My Grandmother, Locker-Lampson

To Phoebe, by Gilbert

To Phyllis, by Field

To the Frivolous Muse, by Whicher

To the Portrait of A Gentleman, by Holmes

To the Virgins, by Herrick

To William Allen White, by Ferber

Toll the Bell for Damon, by Anderson

Travel, by Millay

Traveler's Reest, by Nash

Travelogue, by Wells

Tripe, by Wells

Tristan and Isolda, by Levy

Truth about B.F., by Stillman

Truth about Horace, by Field

Turtle Soup, by Carroll

Twelve Articles, by Swift

Two-volume Novel, by Parker

Universal Favorite, by Wells

Unsatisfied Yearning, by Munkittrick

Vicar, by Praed

Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves, by Henley

Walloping Window-Blind, by Carryl

Walrus and the Carpenter, by Carroll

Wasted Ammunition, by King

Way to Arcady, by Bunner

We Have Been Here Before, by Bishop

Wedding, by Hood

What Literature Needs, by Holmes

What Mr. Robinson Thinks, by Lowell

What's in a Name?, by Munkittrick

When I am Dead, by Stillman

When I Loved You, by Wagner

When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas, by Thackeray

When the War Will End, by Arkell

When the West Comes East, by Ford

Wide Open Spaces, by Lear

Willows, by Harte

Willow-tree, by Chesterton

Winter Madrigal, by Bishop

Wreck of the "Julie Plante", by Drummond

Written After Swimming..., by Lord Byron

Yak, by Belloc

Yarn of the Nancy Bell, by Gilbert

Young Lockinvar, by Unknown

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Online version: Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960. Innocent merriment, an anthology of light verse.

OCLC:

8991179