The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) - Hardcover

Tom Wedgewood Tells by Brian W. Aldiss
Aberdarcy: The Chaucer Road by Kingsley Amis
Aberdarcy: The Main Square by Kingsley Amis
After Goliath by Kingsley Amis
Aldport (mystery Tour) [or, Terrible Beauty] by Kingsley Amis
Brynbwrla by Kingsley Amis
Fforestfawr by Kingsley Amis
Langwell by Kingsley Amis
Pendydd by Kingsley Amis
Doggerel By A Senior Citizen by Wystan Hugh Auden
I Like Your Muse Because She's Gay And Witty by Wystan Hugh Auden
On The Circuit by Wystan Hugh Auden
Ottava Rima Would, I Know, Be Proper by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Thought Of Writing Came To Me Today by Wystan Hugh Auden
Uncle Henry by Wystan Hugh Auden
Under Which Lyra; A Revolutionary Tract For The Times by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Unknown Citizen by Wystan Hugh Auden
Balliol Rhyme (1) by Henry Charles Beeching
A Luncheon (thomas Hardy Entertains The Prince Of Wales) by Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
Police Station Ditties by Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
The Dreadful Dinotherium He by Hilaire Belloc
Fatigue; Epigram by Hilaire Belloc
Lord Finchley by Hilaire Belloc
Moral by Hilaire Belloc
On A Great Election; Epigram by Hilaire Belloc
Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably by Hilaire Belloc
The Yak by Hilaire Belloc
Place Names Of China by Alan Bennett
Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
George Iii by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Lord Clive by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Executive by John Betjeman
How To Get On In Society by John Betjeman
In Westminster Abbey by John Betjeman
Invasion Exercise On The Poultry Farm by John Betjeman
Longfellow's Visit To Venice by John Betjeman
Pot-pourri From A Surrey Garden by John Betjeman
A Subaltern's Love-song by John Betjeman
Ode To A Human Heart by Samuel Laman Blanchard
Abroad Thoughts by Edward Blishen
Breakfast With Gerard Manley Hopkins by Anthony Brode
Sonnet Reversesd by Rupert Brooke
Wagner by Rupert Brooke
For A' That And A' That by Charles William Shirley Brooks
To Disraeli by Charles William Shirley Brooks
Soliloquy Of The Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning
Limerick by Arthur Buller
For A' That And A' That; Song by Robert Burns
In Mathematics He Was Greater by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler
The Question Then, To State It First by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler
Quoth He, To Bid Me Not To Love by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler
Rules Of Life by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler
Sages by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler
This Place (quote She) They Say's Enchanted by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler
1. by John Byrom
2. by John Byrom
3. by John Byrom
4. by John Byrom
Epigram On The Feuds Between Handel And Bononcini by John Byrom
Extempore Intended To Allay The Violence Of Party Spirit by John Byrom
Martin Folkes by John Byrom
A Deal Of Fun by George Gordon Byron
Fragment, On The Back Of The Poet's Ms. Of Canto I by George Gordon Byron
Great Bacon by George Gordon Byron
Milton's The Pince Of Poets - So We Say by George Gordon Byron
Over The Stones Still Rattling, Up Pall Mall by George Gordon Byron
Sagest Of Women, Even Of Widows, She by George Gordon Byron
A Young Unmarried Man, With A Good Name by George Gordon Byron
Rural Simplicity by Henry James Byron
Companions; A Tale Of A Grandfather by Charles Stuart Calverley
Farewell, Farewell! Before Our Prow by Charles Stuart Calverley
Forever by Charles Stuart Calverley
In The Gloaming by Charles Stuart Calverley
Lines On Hearing The Organ by Charles Stuart Calverley
The Schoolmaster Abroad With His Son by Charles Stuart Calverley
On Some South African Novelists by Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell
Betjeman, 1984 by Charles Causley
After Lord Tennyson by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
After Robert Browning by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
After Swinburne by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
After W.b. Yeats by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
After Walt Whitman by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Antichrist, Or The Reunion Of Christendom; An Ode by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A Ballad Of Abbreviations by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Rolling English Road by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Wordsworth Unvisited by David Hartley Coleridge
Mad Dogs And Englishmen by Noel Coward
There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner by Noel Coward
Satie, At The End Of The Term by Simon Curtis
The Bards by Walter John De La Mare
Iron by Walter John De La Mare
Bacchanal by Peter De Vries
Christmas Family Reunion by Peter De Vries
The Cult Of The Celtic by Anthony C. Deane
An Ode by Anthony C. Deane
A House Of Prayer by Daniel Defoe
Labouring Poor by Daniel Defoe
A Game Of Consequences by Paul Dehn
Dora Versus Rose by Henry Austin Dobson
The Bat by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Crocodile, Fr. Alice In Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Father William [questioned], Fr. Alice In Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Hiawatha's Photographing by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
'tis The Voice Of The Lobster; I Heard Him Declare by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Walrus And The Carpenter, Fr. Alice In Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The White Knight's Song by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Cat Morgan Introduces Himself by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Macavity: The Mystery Cat by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat by Thomas Stearns Eliot
On Communists; Epigram by Ebenezer Elliott
The New Vicar Of Bray by Colin Ellis
Buy One Now by Dennis Joseph Enright
Royalties by Dennis Joseph Enright
An Underdeveloped Country by Dennis Joseph Enright
Miss Twye by Gavin Ewart
Elegy On Thomas Hood by Martin Fagg
On Marriage by Thomas Flatman
Impromptu by Benjamin Franklin
Departmental by Robert Frost
Blues by John Fuller
A New Song Of New Similes by John Gay
The Darned Mounseer by William Schwenck Gilbert
The Modern Major-general, Fr. The Pirates Of Penzance by William Schwenck Gilbert
Nightmare, Fr. Iolanthe by William Schwenck Gilbert
The Policeman's Lot by William Schwenck Gilbert
The Policman's Lot by William Schwenck Gilbert
The Yarn Of The 'nancy Bell' by William Schwenck Gilbert
After Horace by Alfred Dennis Godley
The Motor Bus by Alfred Dennis Godley
Women's Degrees by Alfred Dennis Godley
The Song Of Mr. Toad by Kenneth Grahame
Epitaph On An Unfortunate Artist by Robert Ranke Graves
The Persian Version by Robert Ranke Graves
Welcome, To The Caves Of Arta by Robert Ranke Graves
Wigs And Beards by Robert Ranke Graves
Wm. Braizer by Robert Ranke Graves
Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub by Thomas Gray
Limerick by Victor Gray
Limerick by Victor Gray
Limerick by Victor Gray
Limerick by Victor Gray
Limerick by Victor Gray
Limerick by Victor Gray
Limerick by Victor Gray
Limerick by Victor Gray
Limerick by Victor Gray
A Song Of The Gpo by Gerry Hamill
The Levelled Churchyard by Thomas Hardy
The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy
Limerick by Maurice Evan Hare
Further Language From Truthful James by Francis Bret Harte
Plain Language From Truthful James by Francis Bret Harte
2107 by John Heath-stubbs
The Poet Of Bray by John Heath-stubbs
The Dover Bitch; A Criticism Of Life by Anthony Hecht
Lines For A Worthy Person Who Has Drifted .. Chelsea Revel by Alan Patrick Herbert
The Heathen Pass-ee by Arthur Clement Hilton
Aestivation: An Unpublished Poem Of My Late Latin Tutor by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faithless Nelly Gray; A Pathetic Ballad by Thomas Hood
Faithless Sally Brown; An Old Ballad by Thomas Hood
To Minerva by Thomas Hood
A Trio Of Triolets: 3 by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Elephant, Or The Force Of Habit by Alfred Edward Housman
Fragment Of A Greek Tragedy by Alfred Edward Housman
Infant Innocence by Alfred Edward Housman
Occasional Poem by Alfred Edward Housman
Hiberia by Stuart Howard-jones
The Fish Turns Into Man, And Then Into A Spirit ... by James Henry Leigh Hunt
Three Sonnets by James Henry Leigh Hunt
Limerick by William Ralph Inge
Reminiscence by Wallace Irwin
Idyll by Samuel (1709-1784) Johnson
Quatrain by Samuel (1709-1784) Johnson
On Giles And Joan by Ben Jonson
Poem (after A.e. Housman) by Hugh Kingsmill
Poem (after E.a. Housman) (2) by Hugh Kingsmill
The Lie by Rudyard Kipling
To The God Of Love by Edmund George Valpy Knox
Limerick by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
Eireann by Osbert Lancaster
English by Osbert Lancaster
French by Osbert Lancaster
Manhattan by Osbert Lancaster
Brahma by Andrew Lang
Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin
Fiction And The Reading Public by Philip Larkin
I Remember, I Remember by Philip Larkin
Self's The Man by Philip Larkin
A Study Of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin
Toads by Philip Larkin
Toads Revisited by Philip Larkin
By Way Of Preface by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Rhymes (?) by Henry Sambrooke Leigh
Ballad By Hans Breitmann by Charles Godfrey Leland
Hans Breitmann's Barty by Charles Godfrey Leland
Evolutionary Hymn by Clives Staples Lewis
Sapphics by Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis
The Power Of Music by Thomas Lisle
Lament Of An Idle Dream by Richard Percival Lister
The Revolutionaries by Richard Percival Lister
Our Photograph by Frederick Locker-lampson
The Five-minute Orlando Macbeth by George Macbeth
The Orlando Commercial by George Macbeth
The Political Orlando by George Macbeth
On The Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, Commoner Of Balliol by John William Mackail
Bagpipe Music by Frederick Louis Macneice
Shelley And Jazz And Lieder And Love And Hymn-tunes by Frederick Louis Macneice
The Character Of Holland by Andrew Marvell
Reflections At Dawn by Phyllis Mcginley
Arizona Nature Myth by James Michie
The Dancing Cabman by John Cameron Audrieu Bingham Morton
Rub-a-dub-dub %three Men In A Tub by Mother Goose
A Sad, Sad Story by Mother Goose
The Sow Came In With The Saddle by Mother Goose
Trip Upon Trenchers by Mother Goose
Tweedledum And Tweedledee by Mother Goose
The Parterre by E. Harriet Palmer
Garland For A Propagandist by Ted Pauker
A Grouchy Good Night To The Academic Year by Ted Pauker
Limeraiku by Ted Pauker
A Trifle For Trafalgar Day by Ted Pauker
Rich And Poor; Or, Saint And Sinner by Thomas Love Peacock
Ching A Ring, A Ring Ching by James Robinson Planche
Love, You've Been A Villain by James Robinson Planche
A Word Of Encouragement by J. R. Pope
A Consumer's Report by Peter Porter
Caledonia by Anthony Powell
Arrivals At A Watering-place by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Every-day Characters: Portrait Of A Lady by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Good-night To The Season by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
A Letter Of Advice by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
The Talented Man by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Wishes Of An Eldery Man, Wished At A Garden Party, June 1914 by Walter Alexander Raleigh
Chard Whitlow (mr. Eliot's Sunday Evening Postcript) by Henry Reed
Poetry Reading by Vernon Scannell
A Birthday Ode To Mr. Alfred Austin by Owen Seaman
England Expects by Owen Seaman
A Plea For Trigamy by Owen Seaman
The Sitting Bard by Owen Seaman
Song by William Shakespeare
'go To The Ant' by Stanley J. Sharpless
Ode On A Grecian Urn Summarized by Desmond Skirrow
Ode To A Pig While His Nose Was Being Roasted by Robert Southey
To A Goose by Robert Southey
Balliol Rhyme (2) by Cecil Spring-rice
A Vision Of Truth by John Collings Squire
Drinking Song by James Kenneth Stephen
England And America: 1. On A Rhine Steamer by James Kenneth Stephen
England And America: 2. On A Parisian Boulevard by James Kenneth Stephen
Sincere Flattery Of R.b. by James Kenneth Stephen
Sincere Flattery Of W.w. (americanus) by James Kenneth Stephen
A Sonnet by James Kenneth Stephen
To R.k. by James Kenneth Stephen
Not I by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Memory by Leonard Alfred George Strong
Daphne by Jonathan Swift
The Time Is Not Remote, When I by Jonathan Swift
Wise Rochefoucauld A Maxim Writ by Jonathan Swift
Canopus by Bert Leston Taylor
Hendecasyllabics by Alfred Tennyson
Popular by Alfred Tennyson
Somebody by Alfred Tennyson
Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Sorrows Of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Word In Edgeways by Charles Tomlinson
The Journal Of Society by Godfrey Turner
Tattle by Godfrey Turner
After Emerson by Anonymous
Baby, Baby by Anonymous
The Ballad Of William Bloat by Anonymous
Balliol Rhyme (3) by Anonymous
Carousal by Anonymous
Clerihew by Anonymous
A Description Of Maidenhead by Anonymous
Drinking Song by Anonymous
Epigram by Anonymous
Gasbags by Anonymous
Hye Nonny Nonny Noe by Anonymous
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