Page 5 - Poetry-Whimsy

CONTENTS

A World of Wit and Whimsy, by Moira Allen................................... 5
Next Door! ............................................................................................ 7
Elegy on the Death of a Country Washerwoman,
by Rev. Charles Tisdall ................................................................. 10
Something Like a Title ....................................................................... 12
A Farewell to Agassiz ......................................................................... 13
An Old Bachelor ................................................................................. 15
The Origin of Scandal ........................................................................ 16
Bless’d Hour ........................................................................................ 18
Ode to an Odious Old Dress, by Miss E. Conomy ........................... 19
The Spelling Bee at Angel’s ................................................................ 19
A Ballad ................................................................................................22
My Collection: An Invitation, by Sarah Bridges Stebbins ............... 25
Looking Behind, by Palmer Cox ....................................................... 26
Sonnet ................................................................................................. 28
“The Lady, or the Tiger?” or Both? by Joseph Kirkland .................. 29
Advice to Girls Intending a Pedestrian Tour .................................. 33
What’s in a Name? by R.K. Munkittrick ......................................... 34
In the Gloaming, by Helen Marion Burnside .................................... 35
Ode to the Cucumber ....................................................................... 36
The Rhyme of the Hercules Club, by Helen Gray Cone .................. 37
A Cheerful Spirit, by Stanley Wood .................................................. 39
The First Needle, by Lucretia P. Hale .............................................. 40
Altruism (A Tale), by Robert Trowbridge ........................................ 42
Hobson’s Choice, by Francis E. Leupp ............................................. 45
The Golden Bridge, by George T. Lanigan ....................................... 46
The Trials of a Broom, by Lee Brant ................................................. 48
A Sign of Spring, by Dudley C. Hasbruck......................................... 49
A Variation of Hood .......................................................................... 50
To Critics, by Walter Leonard ............................................................ 51
A Pin, by Ellen Wheeler Wilcox ......................................................... 51
The Tale of the Tiger, by M.S. Hopson ............................................. 52
“The Lady, or, the Tiger?” by Belle A. Mundy ................................... 52
Beautiful Spring, by Margaret Vandegrift ........................................ 53
The Baggage Fiend ............................................................................ 54
Song of the Baggage Smasher ............................................................ 55
The Devil’s Balloon ............................................................................ 56
The Battle of Ispahan, by Ada Palmer Roberts ................................ 56
On a Sheepskin, by Idle Idyller ......................................................... 59
The V-A-S-E, by James Jeffrey Roche ................................................ 59