Light Verse

Comic and nonsense poetry — limericks, parodies, and the cheerfully clever rhymes of Herford, Graham, Burgess, and Wells.

Poetry that wears a grin

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Showing 120 works from the first 120 entries in this collection.

• A Small Animal
• About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
• Dejection: an Ode
• Celebration
• Amor, Io Fallo E Veggio Il Mio Fallire
• A Backward Spring
• Transplanted
• Slaughter on Dornel IV
• The Musicians
• The Red Flower. June 1914 (Premonition)
• Overseas
• To the Muses
• The Pedigree of Honey
• Big Bear the Indian Chief
• Melodrama
• The Franklin's Maid
• United States
• Taming the Bicycle
• Night Voices
• Rev. Lemuel Wiley
• A Tombless Epitaph
• The Magic Net
• On the Road
• A Mile with Me
• Refreshed by the Bread and Wine
• The Ivy-Wife
• Imperial Bedrooms
• The House Wren
• The Old Days
• Animula
• The Dinkey-Bird
• The Tarbolton Lasses
• No Churchman am I
• Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie
• Poor Mailie's Elegy
• Epitaph on Wm. Hood, Senr., in Tarbolton
• Reply to an Announcement by J. Rankine
• Epistle to John Rankine
• Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic
• Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire
• Epigram on the Said Occasion
• One Queen Artemisia, as Old Stories Tell
• On Tam the Chapman
• Epitaph on John Rankine
• Third Epistle to J. Lapraik
• Epitaph for James Smith
• Adam Armour's Prayer
• Address to the Deil
• Scotch Drink
• The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer
• The Inventory
• To a Louse, on Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet, at Church
• To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending a Boy
• Versified Reply to an Invitation
• Versified Note to Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline
• Epitaph on "Wee Johnie"
• Lines to Mr. John Kennedy
• Stanzas on Naething
• The Calf
• Reply to a Trimming Epistle Received from a Tailor
• Epigram on Rough Roads
• Address to the Toothache
• Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer
• Tam Samson's Elegy
• Epistle to Major Logan
• Address to a Haggis
• Mr. William Smellie-A Sketch
• Extempore in the Court of Session
• The Book-Worms
• Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church
• Duncan Davison
• Epistle to Hugh Parker
• To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer
• Versicles on Sign-Posts
• Pegasus at Wanlockhead
• Impromptu Lines to Captain Riddell
• Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner
• A New Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock
• My Love, she's but a Lassie Yet
• The Laddie's Dear Sel'
• Whistle o'Er the Lave o'T
• On the Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
• Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary
• Willie Brew'D a Peck o' Maut
• The Whistle-A Ballad
• Lines to a Gentleman
• Elegy on Willie Nicol's Mare
• Verses on Captain Grose
• Epigram on Miss Davies
• Epigram at Brownhill Inn
• The Rights of Woman
• On Commissary Goldie's Brains
• Extempore Reply to an Invitation
• Grace after Meat
• Grace before and after Meat
• Epitaph on a Lap-Dog
• Epigram on the Laird of Laggan
• My Spouse Nancy
• Address Spoken by Miss Fontenelle
• Pinned to Mrs. Walter Riddell's Carriage
• Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell
• Epitaph on a Noted Coxcomb
• On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe
• To Dr. Maxwell
• To the Beautiful Miss Eliza J-N
• On Chloris Requesting me to Give her a Spring of Blossomed Thorn
• Epigram on a Country Laird
• On a Swearing Coxcomb
• On an Innkeeper Nicknamed "the Marquis"
• Lines Sent with a Present of a Dozen of Porter
• Apology for Declining an Invitation to Dine
• Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson
• The Dean of Faculty
• A Wraith in the Mist
• Maiden and Weathercock
• Glove of Black in White Hand Bare
• Friar Lubin
• The Queen of Hearts
• Boy Johnny
• Freaks of Fashion

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