Some poets have had quite a hey-dey perverting the works by
fellow poets.
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The Auld Wife
by Charles S. Calverley
Parodies poems written in the manner of folk ballads
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You Are Old, Father William
by Lewis Carroll
parodies Robert Southey's The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them
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How doth the little crododile...
by Lewis Carroll
parodies Issac Watt's How doth the busy little bee...
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Ballad of the Canal
by Phoebe Cary
parodies J. T. Field's Ballad of the Tempest
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Jacob
by Phoebe Cary
parodies Wordsworth's She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
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When Lovely Woman
by Phoebe Cary
parodies Oliver Goldsmith's When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
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Mrs. Judge Jenkins
by Bret Harte
Whittier: Maud Muller
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Octopus
by Arthur Clement Hilton
a parody of A. C. Swinburne
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The Child is Father to the Man
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
parodies Wordsworth's My Heart Leaps Up
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The Hair-Tonic Bottle
by Ben King
parodies Woodworth's The Old Oaken Bucket
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If I Should Die Tonight
by Ben King
parodies Arabella Smith's work by the same title
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Brahma
by Andrew Lang
parodies Emerson's Brahma
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Elegy Written in a Country Coal-Bin
by Christopher Morley
parodies Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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The Rejected 'National Hymns'
by R. H. Newell
ten parodies for the price of one
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Song in the Manner of Housman
by Ezra Pound
parodies A.E. Housman generally
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Ballade of the Incompetent Ballade-Monger
by J. K. Stephen
parodies Dobson and the Decadent poets generally
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Sonnet
by J.K. Stephen
parodies Wordsworth's Thoughts of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
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The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
parodies Tennyson's The Higher Pantheism
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Nephelidia
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Swinburne parodies-- Swinburne!
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The Promissory Note
by Bayard Taylor
parodies a number of Poe poems, especially "Ulalume"
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Upon Julia's Arctics
by Bert Leston Taylor
parodies Robert Herrick's Upon Julia's Clothes
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Aprilly
by Bert Leston Taylor
parodies the opening lines of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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Diversions of the Re-Echo Club
by Carolyn Wells
this could be called "18 Ways of Looking at a Purple Cow"