The Book of Humorous Verse. Various

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СКАЧАТЬ James Whitcomb Riley 925 There Was a Little Girl Unknown 926 The Naughty Darkey Boy Unknown 927 Dutch Lullaby Eugene Field 928 The Dinkey-Bird Eugene Field 929 The Little Peach Eugene Field 931 Counsel to Those that Eat Unknown 932 Home and Mother Mary Mapes Dodge 932 Little Orphant Annie James Whitcomb Riley 934 [Pg xxiii] A Visit From St. Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore 935 A Nursery Legend Henry S. Leigh 937 A Little Goose Eliza Sproat Turner 938 Leedle Yawcob Strauss Charles Follen Adams 940 A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months Thomas Hood 941 Little Mamma Charles Henry Webb 943 The Comical Girl M. Pelham 946 Bunches of Grapes Walter Ramal 947 XVI: IMMORTAL STANZAS The Purple Cow Gelett Burgess 948 The Young Lady of Niger Unknown 948 The Laughing Willow Oliver Herford 948 Said Opie Reed Julian Street and James Montgomery Flagg 948

Manila	Eugene F. Ware	949
On the Aristocracy of Harvard	Dr. Samuel G. Bushnell	949
On the Democracy of Yale	Dean Jones	949
The Herring	Sir Walter Scott	949
If the Man	Samuel Johnson	949
The Kilkenny Cats	Unknown	950
Poor Dear Grandpapa	D'Arcy W. Thompson	950
More Walks	Richard Harris Barham ["Thomas Ingoldsby"]	950
Indifference	Unknown	950
Madame Sans Souci	Unknown	950
A Riddle	Unknown	951
If	Unknown	951

THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSE

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THE PLAYED-OUT HUMOURIST

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Quixotic is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said; The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries, And every joke that's possible has long ago been made. I started as a humourist with lots of mental fizziness, But humour is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse; For my stock-in-trade, my fixtures and the good-will of the business No reasonable offer I am likely to refuse. And if anybody choose He may circulate the news That no reasonable offer I am likely to refuse. Oh, happy was that humourist—the first that made a pun at all— Who when a joke occurred to him, however poor and mean, Was absolutely certain that it never had been done at all— How popular at dinners must that humourist have been! Oh, the days when some step-father for a query held a handle out— The door-mat from the scraper, is it distant very far? And when no one knew where Moses was when Aaron put the candle out, And no one had discovered that a door could be a-jar! But your modern hearers are In their tastes particular, And they sneer if you inform them that a door can be a jar! In search of quip and quiddity I've sat all day alone, apart— And all that I could hit on as a problem was—to find Analogy between a scrag of mutton and a Bony-part, Which offers slight employment to the speculative mind. For you cannot call it very good, however great your charity— It's not the sort of humour that is greeted with a shout— And I've come to the conclusion that my mine of jocularity, In present Anno Domini is worked completely out! Though the notion you may scout, I can prove beyond a doubt That my mine of jocularity is worked СКАЧАТЬ В начало < 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 > В конец