Captain Reece | - Of all the ships upon the blue,
- No ship contained a better crew
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The Rival Curates | - List while the poet trolls
- Of Mr. Clayton Hooper,
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Only A Dancing Girl | - Only a dancing girl,
- With an unromantic style,
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General John | - The bravest names for fire and flames
- And all that mortal durst,
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To A Little Maid - By A Policeman | - Come with me, little maid,
- Nay, shrink not, thus afraid --
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John And Freddy | - John courted lovely Mary Ann,
- So likewise did his brother, Freddy.
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Sir Guy The Crusader | - Sir Guy was a doughty crusader,
- A muscular knight,
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Haunted | - Haunted? Ay, in a social way
- By a body of ghosts in dread array;
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The Bishop And The `Busman | - It was a Bishop bold,
- And London was his see,
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The Troubadour | - A Troubadour he played
- Without a castle wall,
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Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman | - At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper
- One whom I will call Elvira, and we talked of love and Tupper,
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Lorenzo De Lardy | - Dalilah de Dardy adored
- The very correctest of cards,
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Disillusioned | - Oh, that my soul its gods could see
- As years ago they seemed to me
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Babette's Love | - Babette she was a fisher gal,
- With jupon striped and cap in crimps.
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To My Bride | - Oh! little maid! -- (I do not know your name
- Or who you are, so, as a safe precaution
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The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent | - I knew a boor -- a clownish card
- (His only friends were pigs and cows and
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Sir Macklin | - Of all the youths I ever saw
- None were so wicked, vain, or silly,
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The Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell" | - 'Twas on the shores that round our coast
- From Deal to Ramsgate span,
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The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo | - From east and south the holy clan
- Of Bishops gathered to a man;
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The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale | - An elderly person -- a prophet by trade --
- With his quips and tips
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To Phoebe | - "Gentle, modest little flower,
- Sweet epitome of May,
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Baines Carew, Gentleman | - Of all the good attorneys who
- Have placed their names upon the roll,
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Thomas Winterbottom Hance | - In all the towns and cities fair
- On Merry England's broad expanse,
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The Reverend Micah Sowls | - The Reverend ,
- He shouts and yells and howls,
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A Discontented Sugar Broker | - A Gentleman of City fame
- Now claims your kind attention;
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The Pantomime "Super" To His Mask | - Vast empty shell!
- Impertinent, preposterous abortion!
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The Force Of Argument | - Lord B. was a nobleman bold
- Who came of illustrious stocks,
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The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin | - O'er unreclaimed suburban clays
- Some years ago were hobblin'
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The Phantom Curate. A Fable | - A Bishop once -- I will not name his see --
- Annoyed his clergy in the mode conventional;
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The Sensation Captain | - No nobler captain ever trod
- Than Captain Parklebury Todd,
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Tempora Mutantur | - Letters, letters, letters, letters!
- Some that please and some that bore,
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At A Pantomime. | - An Actor sits in doubtful gloom,
- His stock-in-trade unfurled,
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King Borria Bungalee Boo | - King Borria Bungalee Boo
- Was a man-eating African swell;
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The Periwinkle Girl | - I've often thought that headstrong youths
- Of decent education,
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Thomson Green And Harriet Hale | - Oh list to this incredible tale
- Of Thomson Green and Harriet Hale;
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Bob Polter | - Bob Polter was a navvy, and
- His hands were coarse, and dirty too,
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The Story Of Prince Agib | - Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
- Blow the spirit-stirring harp like anything!
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Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen | - MacPhairson Clonglocketty Angus McClan
- Was the son of an elderly labouring man;
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Peter The Wag | - Policeman Peter forth I drag
- From his obscure retreat:
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Ben Allah Achmet | - I once did know a Turkish man
- Whom I upon a two-pair-back met,
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Joe Golightly | - A tar, but poorly prized,
- Long, shambling, and unsightly,
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To The Terrestrial Globe. | - Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
- Through pathless realms of Space
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Gentle Alice Brown | - It was a robber's daughter, and her name was Alice Brown,
- Her father was the terror of a small Italian town;
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