Twentieth century blues: Marquis, Don. from Certain maxims of Archy -- Auden, W. H. The unknown citizen/Doggerel by a senior citizen -- MacNeice, Louis. Bagpipe music -- Updike, John. Insomnia the gem of the ocean -- Kinnell, Galway. In a parlor containing a table -- Piercy, Marge. The development -- Ciardi, John. Suburban -- Ginsberg, Allen. I am a victim of telephone -- Lazard, Naomi. In answer to your query -- Conway, Jack. Clothes make the man -- Lipton, James. [Misericordia!] -- Larkin, Philip. Annus mirabilis -- Chappell, Fred. Guess who -- Hoffenstein, Samuel. [Babies haven't any hair] -- Nash, Ogden. A man can complain, can't he? -- Coward, Noel. What's going to happen to the tots? -- Blaker, Margaret. Pippa passes, but I can't get around this truck -- Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Miniver Cheevy -- Parry, David Fisher. Miniver Cheevy, Jr. Arts and letters: Wilbur, Richard. The prisoner of Zenda -- Garth, Samuel. [What frenzy has of late possess'd the brain!] -- Herbert, A. E. Triangular legs -- White, E. B. I paint what I see -- Hollander, John. The Russian soul II -- Anonymous. What Hiawatha probably did -- Sagoff, Maurice. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe/Preface ShrinkLit: Elements of style William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White -- Prior, Matthew. Earning a dinner -- Hecht, Anthony. The Dover bitch -- Cowper, William. Simplicity -- Coleridge, Hartley. Fie on Eastern luxury! -- Thackeray, William Makepeace. A Victorian paraphrase -- Field, Eugene. The preference declared -- Dobson, Austin. Persicos odi: Pocket version -- Whicher, George F. Myrtle for two -- Preston, Keith. Chicago analogue -- Carryl, Guy Wetmore. The sycophantic fox and the gullible raven -- Coward, Noel. He never did that to me -- Burgess, Gelett. The purple cow/Confession -- Sharpless, Stanley J. Hamlet -- Anonymous. You're the top -- Porter, Cole. Brush up your Shakespeare -- Hood, Thomas. To Minerva -- Bishop, Morris. [The limerick is furtive and mean] -- Gilbert, W. S. Song (from "Patience") -- Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Cacoëthes scribendi -- Fried, Barbara. The good old days -- Adams, Franklin P. ("F. P. A.") To a thesaurus -- Preston, Keith. The parental critic -- Belloc, Hillaire. On his books -- Anonymous. To a living author -- Wilbur, Richard. What's good for the soul is good for sales/To an American poet just dead -- Thackeray, William Makepeace. The sorrows of Werther -- Beerbohm, Max. Thomas Hardy and A. E. Housman -- Jonson, Ben. On English monsieur -- Veale, Peter. from Jonsonian poem in progress -- Ransom, John Crowe. Survey of literature -- Nemerov, Howard. Mystery story -- Benson, Gerard. The probatioun officeres tale -- Thomas, Lord Erskine. On Scott's "The field of Waterloo" -- McKinney, Laurence. Oboe -- Carryl, Guy Wetmore. A ballad -- Gray, Victor. ('All the world's a stage') -- Hoffenstein, Samuel. Birdie McReynolds/Miss Millay says something too -- McGinley, Phyllis. Public journal -- Taylor, Bert Leston. ("B. L. T." ) Upon Julia's arctics -- Kingsmill, Hugh. What, still alive -- Koch, Kenneth. Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams -- Reed, Henry. Chard Whitlow -- Kennedy, X. J. From Emily Dickinson in Southern California -- Anonymous. Justice to Scotland -- Chesterton, C. K. Variations on an air composed on having to appear in a pagaent as Old King Cole. Some fun with the mother tongue: McCord, David. Ascot waistcoat -- Godley, A. D. On the motor bus -- Anonymous. The American Indian -- Hollis, Mark. 'Twixt cup and lip -- Guiterman, Arthur. Everything in its place -- Anonymous. Carmen Possum -- Bishop, Morris. The naughty preposition -- Loomis, Charles Battell. O-U-G-H -- King, Stoddard. Idyll -- Guiterman, Arthur. Local note -- Cole, WIlliam. Oh, noa, noa! -- Feinstein, Robert N. Woolly words -- British and Colonial printer. An Arab and his donkey -- Preston, Keith. Lapsus linguae. Only human: Nemerov, Howard. Life cycle of common man -- Dickinson, Emily. I'm nobody! Who are you? -- Anonymous. Brian O'Linn -- Burns, Robert. The jolly beggars -- Bersohn, Robert. The dignity of labor -- George Gordon, Lord Byron. When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home -- Williams, Tennessee. Carrousel tune -- Chappell, Fred. from My mother shoots the breeze -- Roethke, Theodore. from Three epigrams -- White, E. B. To a lady across the way -- Nash, Ogden. Ha! Original sin! -- Untermeyer, Louis. Repentance -- Marquis, Don. The song of Mehitabel -- Davison, Peter. Motley -- McGinley, Phyllis. Reflections at dawn -- Hemminger, Graham Lee. The smoking world -- Herbert, A. P. Saturday night -- Anonymous. Darwinism in the kitchen -- Roethke, Theodore. Song for the squeeze-box -- Betjeman, John. In Westminster Abbey -- King, Stoddard. Trombone solo -- Coward, Noel. I've been to a marvellous party. Life's losers: King, Ben. The pessimist -- Kennedy, X. J. Brats -- Parker, Dorothy. The flaw in paganism -- Frost, Robert. The objection to being stepped on -- Guiterman, Arthur. On the vanity of earthly greatness -- Nash, Ogden. Mr. Artesian's conscientiousness -- Young, Dorothy. Last lauch -- Housman, A. E. Hallelujah! -- Nash, Ogden. Requiem -- Parker, Dorothy. Sanctuary -- Fuller, John. De Sade -- Anonymous. [The night was growing old] -- Anonymous. Determinism -- Klappert, Peter. For the poet who said poets are struck by lightning only two or three times -- Cummings, E. E. Nobody loses all the time -- Smith, Harry B. My Angeline -- Anonymous. Poor but honest -- Graham, Virginia. Disillusionment -- Piercy, Marge. Hello up there -- Kennedy, X. J. In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day -- Field, Eugene. A piazza tragedy -- Gilbert, W. S. To the terrestrial globe (by a miserable wretch). Personalities: Lear, Edward. By way of preface -- Eliot, T. S. Lines to Ralph Hodgson, Esqre./Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg -- Morley, Christopher. The gospel of Mr. Pepys -- Bentley, Edmund Clerihew. [Sir Christopher Wren] -- Lehrer, Tom. Alma -- Updike, John. Some Frenchmen -- Facos, James. Fable -- Anonymous. Graffiti -- Hecht, Anthony. Paradise lost, book V, an epitome -- Hollander, John. Heliogabalus/Danish wit -- Naylor, James B(all). Authorship -- Benét, Rosemary and Stephen Vincent. Hernando de Soto, 1499?-1542 -- Starbuck, George. High renaissance -- Baker, Kathleen Leland. The baby Hilary, Sir Edmund. Food and drink: Milligan, Spike. A thousand hairy savages -- Housman, A. E. G. K. Chesterton on his birth -- Anonymous. Miss Fogerty's cake -- Keats, John. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern -- Hoffenstein, Samuel. XIII (from As the crow flies, let him fly) -- Tucker, St. George. from The cynic -- Roethke, Theodore. The Saginaw song -- Piercy, Marge. Attack of the squash people -- Anonymous. Waiter, please -- Hoffmann, Heinrich. The story of Augustus who would not have any soup -- Smith, Sydney. Salad -- Wells, Carolyn. The universal favorite -- McGinley, Phyllis. Notes for a Southern road map -- Coward, Noel. Any part of piggy -- Lyly, John. Oh, for a bowl of fat canary -- Carroll, Lewis. Turtle soup -- Blount, Roy, Jr. Against broccoli -- Mitchell, Adrian. Giving potatoes -- Field, Roswell Martin. A counterblast against garlic -- Anonymous. Cautionary limerick -- Blake, William. The little vagabond -- Johnson, Samuel. "Hermit hoar..." -- Belloc, Hillaire. On jam -- Young, George W. Lips that touch liquor -- Anonymous. Judged by the company one keeps -- Peacock, Thomas Love. Chorus (from Crotchet castle) -- Ade, George. R-E-M-O-R-S-E -- Turberville, George. Of drunkenness. Occupations and preoccupations: Guiterman, Arthur. Anthologisitics -- Bishop, Morris. The anatomy of humor -- Roethke, Theodore. 1. Pipling (from Three epigrams) -- White, E. B. Critic (from Definitions) -- Paul, Louis. Cynical portraits -- Nash, Ogden. The purist -- Yeats, William Butler. The fiddler of Dooney -- Parker, Dorothy. Bohemia -- Saxe, John Godfrey. The news -- Hiebert, P. G. The farmer and the farmer's wife -- Belloc, Hillaire. Lord Lucky -- Gilbert, W. S. The modern major-general/The family fool -- Butler, Samuel. The law -- Lamport, Felicia. Poll star -- Sherwood, Robert E. The old hokum buncombe -- Brougham, Lord. The orator's epitaph -- Cummings, E. E. [A politician is an arse upon] -- Jones, M. Keel. Election reflection -- Cummings, E. E. [Next to of course God] -- Hughes, Langston. What? -- Hardy, Thomas. The ruined maid -- King, Stoddard. Crime at its best -- Anonymous. On a clergyman's horse biting him -- White, E. B. Commuter. Money, money, money: Nemerov, Howard. Reflections on the seizure of the Suez, and on a proposal to line the banks of that canal with billboard advertisements -- Bishop, Morris. Diogenes -- Armour, Richard. Money -- Ciardi, John. Back through the looking glass to the other side -- Bunner, H. C. Behold the deeds! -- Hughes, Langston. Little lyric (of great importance) -- Nemerov, Howard. BOOM! -- Nash, Ogden. Introspective reflection -- Belloc, Hillaire. Fatigue -- Adams, Franklin P. ("F. P. A.") The rich man -- Elliott, Ebenezer. On Communists -- Anonymous. Art -- Clough, Arthur Hugh. Spectator ab extra -- Preston, Keith. The complete cynic -- Anonymous. The advertising agency song -- King, Ben. If I should die -- Smith, Stevie. Correspondence between Mr. Harrison in Newcastle and Mr. Sholto Peach Harrison in Hull -- Anonymous. From a London bookshop -- Field, Eugene. Mr. Billings of Louisville -- Belloc, Hillaire. Lord Finchley -- Bierce, Ambrose. [Don't steal, thou'lt never thus compete] -- Anonymous. Where are you going, my pretty maid -- Wilbur, Richard. A summer morning -- Nash, Ogden. from One from one leaves two. Ports of call: Tibble, Anne. Trials of a tourist -- Lear, Edward. The owl and the pussy cat -- George Gordon, Lord Byron. Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos/The Lisbon packet -- Bishop, Morris. Public aid for Niagara Falls/Ozymandias revisited -- Newton, Byron Rufus. Owed to New York-1906 -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Cologne/On my joyful departure from the same city, etc.