Verses from 1929 on.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Humorous poetry, American
Table of contents: title: Many long years ago; title: The reminds me; title: A Bas Ben Adhem; title: Seaside serenade; title: Sedative reflection; title: People; title: Nevertheless; title: When the devil was sick could he prove it?; title: Oh, stop being thankful all over the place; title: "My child is phlegmatic ..."- anxious parent; title: Ha! original sin!; title: The party; title: Kindly unhitch that star, buddy; title: The passionate pagan and the dispassionate public; title: Theatrical reflection; title: Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man; title: Scram, lion!; title: A brief gudie to New York; title: Birdies, don't make me laugh; title: The pig; title: Lines to a world-famous poet who failed to complete a world-famous poem, or, come clean, Mr. Guest!; title: Tabooo to boot; title: The cobra; title: Very like a whale; title: Advice outside a church; title: Platitudinous reflection; title: Fragonard; title: Electra becomes morbid; title: Reflection on a wicked world; title: Our child doesn't know anything, or, thank God!; title: Listen ...; title: The rabbits; title: You have more freedom in a house; title: Love under the Republicans (or well-read patient is talking about, or, look, ma, what I got!; title: Crossing the border.; title: The termite; title: Fahrenheit gesundheit; title: Versus; title: I will arise and go now; title: The hunter; title: Thoughts thought after a bridge party; title: Any millenniums today, lady?; title: A word about winter; title: How do you say ha-ha in French?; title: Let's not climb the Washington monument tonight; title: Who did which? or, who indeed? You bet travel is broadening; title: What to do until the doctor goes, or, it's tomorrow than you think; title: Two dogs have I; title: On waking to the third rainy morning of a long week end; title: Quick, hammacher, my stomacher!; title: The cherub; title: Who called the robin a piccolo player?; title: What I know about life; title: Very funny, very funny; title: We would refer you to our service department, if we had one; title: First limick; title: Who taught Caddies to count? or, a burnt golfer fears the child; title: There were giants in those days, or maybe there weren't; title: Tarkington, thou should'st be living in this hour; title: The strange case of Mr. Palliser's palate; title: Will you have your tedium rare or medium?; title: The porcupine; title: There's nothing like instinct, fortunately; title: Martha's vineyard; title: The people upstairs; title: The strange case of the renegade lyric writer; title: Tableau at twilight; title: There are more ways to roast a pig than burning the house down, or, you can always stick your head in a volcano; title: Second limick; title: September is summer, too, or, it's never too late to be uncomfortable; title: The second month it's not itemized; title: The lion; title: Soliloquy in circles; title: Roll on, thou deep and dark blue copy writer-roll!; title: The strange case of the entomologist's heart; title: Third Limick; title: Possessions are nine points of conversation; title: Polterguest, my polterguest; title: Piano tuner, untune me that tune; title: Pappy wants a poppy; title: Not even for brunch; title: The outcome of Mr. Buck's superstition; title: Mrs. Purvis dreads room service, or Mr. Purvis dreads it, too; title: Oh shucks, ma'am, I mean excuse me; title: Always marry an April girl; title: Listen to the linotype; title: Lines to be embroidered on a bib, or the child is father of the man, but not for quite a while; title: Fourth limick; title: I do, I will, I have; title: The guppy; title: I must tell you about my novel; title: Good riddance, but now what?; title: Is this seat taken? yes, or, my neck is sticking in; title: I'll take the high road commission; title: Have you tried staying awake? or, they'll find a way to stop that, too; title: The asp; title: Grin and bear left; title: He digs, he dug, he has dug, The eternal vernal, or, in all my dreams my fair face beams; title: Cousin Euphemia know best, or, physician, heal somebody else; title: Consider the lapel, sir; title: Here usually comes the bride; title: I am full of previous experience; title: Confession to be traced on a birthday cake; title: If he scholars, let him go; title: compliments of a friend; title: Confound you, December twenty-sexth, I apologize; title: The middle; title: For a good dog; title: The perfect husband; title: The private dining room; title: Peekaboo, I almost see you; title: Correction: Eve Delved and Adam Span; title: My trip Daorba; title: The anniversary; title: All, all are gone, the old familiar quotations; title: The happy ending to Mr. Train; title: The calendar-watchers, or, what's so wonderful about being a patriarch?; title: I'm a pleasure to shop for; title: A caution to everybody; title: I didn't say a word, or, who called that piccolo playser a father?; title: Calling spring VII-MMMC; title: Everybody's mind to me a kingdom is, or, a great big wonderful world it's; title: Next!; title: They won't believe, or New Year's eve, That New Year's day will come what may; title: Change here for Wichita Falls, or anybody seen my wanderlust?; title: Don't look for the silver lining, just wait for it; title: The astigmatic naturalist; title: The caterpillar; title: The toucan; title: The platypus; title: The hamster; title: Two goes into tow once, if you can get it there; title: Why the postman has a ring twice, or, yellow envelope, where have you gone?; title: The wild jackass; title: The tortoise; title: The mules; title: The cuckoo; title: The birds; title: The swan; title: The voluble wheel chair; title: The child is father to the man, but with more authority; title: The visit; title: A dog's best friend is his illiteracy; title: Eheu! fugaces, or, what a difference a lot of days make; title: Everybody wants to get into the baedeker; title: The wendigo; title: Mr. Betts's mind a kingdom is; title: The strange case of the cautious motorist; title: The unwinged ones; title: Whit is bibbidi-bobbidi-boo in sanskrit?; title: You can be a Republican, I'm a Gerontocrat; title: Fables bulfinch forgot; title: Chloe and the roue; title: The thirteenth labor of Hercules; title: Medusa and the mot juste; title: Leda's fortunate gaffe; title: Hi-ho the ambulance-o; title: Everything's haggis in hobken, or Scots wha hae hae; title: Father, dear father, go jump in the lake, or, you're costlier than you think; title: What's in a name? some letter I always forget; title: The strange case of Mr. O'Banion's come-uppance; title: Hand me down the old school sliding pads, or, there's a hint of strawberry leaves in the air; title: The strange case of the lovelorn letter writer; title: How to be married without a spouse, or, Mr. Kipling, what have you done with Mr. Hauksbee?; title: Have a seat behind the potted palm, sir; title: The bat; title: The chipmunk; title: Let's not play lotto, let's just talk; title: Tweedledee and tweedledoom; title: I remember yule; title: Kipling's Vermont; title: Max Schiling, Max Schiling, lend me you green thumb; title: It's about time; title: Maybe you can't take it with you, but look what happens when you leave it behind; title: The club car; title: Lecturer in bookstore; title: Reflection on the vernacular; title: This is my own, my native tongue; title: Love me but leave my dog alone; title: It figures; title: Tune for an ill-tempered clavichord; title: You can't get there from here; title: Anybody for money? or, just bring your own basket; title: Birthday on the beach; title: So I resigned from the chu chin chowder and marching club; title: Nature-walks, or, not to mention a dopping of sheldrakes; title: The squid; title: The ostrich; title: The praying mantis; title: The abominable snowman; title: The manatee; title: The squab; title: Ring out the old, ring in the new, but don't get caught in between; title: First chime; title: Second chime; title: Ms. Found under a serviette in the lovely home; title: Don't be cross, Amanda; title: Oafishness sells good, like an advertisement should; title: Sic semper Mr. Sherman's temper, or, kindly place your order in English; title: And how keen was the vision of Sir Launfal?; title: The solitude of Mr. Powers; title: A brief guide to rhyming, or, how be the little busy doth?; title: Can I get you a glass of water? or, please close the glottis after you; title: Chacun a son berlitz; title: I spy, or, the depravity of privacy; title: The nymph and the shepherd, or, she went that-a-way; title: The emancipation of Mr. Poplin, or, skoal to the skimmerless; title: The buses headed for scranton; title: Fee fi ho hum, no wonder baby sucks her thumb; title: An enthusiast is a devotee is a rooter, or, Mr. Hemingway, meet Mr. Stengel; title: Your lead, partner, I hope we've read the same book; title: Ho, varlet! my two cents' worth of penny postcard!; title: It would have been quicker to walk, or don't tell me we're there already; title: Come on in, the senility is fine; title: Exit, pursued by a bear; title: All's brilling in tin pan alley; title: I saw Euterpe kissing Santa Claus; title: Good night, sweet mind; title: The literary scene; title: Anybody else hate nickynames?; title: Caesar knifed again, or, culture biz gets hep, boffs profs; title: Do you plan to speak Bantu? or, abbreviation is the thief of sanity; title: I can hardly wait for the sandman; title: If fun is fun, isn't that enough?; title: Mr. Burgess, meet Mr. Barmecide; title: Never mind the overcoat, button up that lip; title: My my; title: My dream; title: My conscience; title: I can't have a martini, dear, but you take one, or, are you going to sit there guzzling all night?; title: I always say there's no place like New York in the summer, or, that cottage small by a waterfall was snapped up last February; title: Up from the egg: the confessions of a nuthatch avoider; title: I know exactly who dropped the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder; title: Old is for books - Period Period; title: Period I; title: Period II; title: No woe is Gossamer to Mr. Bessemer; title: I'll eat my split-level turkey in the breezeway; title: The self-effacement of Electra Thorne; title: The snark was a boojum was a pawn; title: There'll always be a war between the sexes, or, a woman can be sometimes pleased, but never satisfied; title: Preface to the past; title: The strange case of the lucrative compromise; title: The strange case of Mr. Wood's frustrations, or, a team that won't be beaten better stay off the field; title: Table talk; title: Yorkshire pudding; title: The sweetbread; title: The pizza; title: The shad; title: To Ee is human; title: That's funny, wasn't it? no, it won't be; title: What's in a name? here's what's in a name, or, I wonder what became of John and Mary; title: Try it suns. and Hols.; it's closed then; title: Posies from a second childhood, or, hark how Gaffer do chaffer; title: Daddy's home, see you tomorrow; title: The absentees; title: A boy's will is the wind's will?; title: How to Harry a husband, or, is that accessory really necessary?; title: Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let's let down out hair; title: What, no sheep?; title: What the well-read patient is talking about, or, look, ma, what I got!; title: Crossing the border.