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xxxii, 522 pages 19 cm. |
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The Modern library of the world's best books |
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Modern library of the world's best books.
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That Reminds Me -- A Bas Ben Adhem -- Seaside Serenade -- Sedative Reflection -- People -- Nevertheless -- When the Devil Was Sick Could He Prove It? -- Oh, Stop Being Thankful All Over the Place -- "My Child is Phlegmatic ..." -- Anxious Parent -- Ha! Original Sin! -- The Party -- Kindly Unhitch That Star, Buddy -- The Passionate Pagan and the Dispassionate Public -- Theatrical Reflection -- Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man -- Scram, Lion! -- A Brief Guide to New York -- Birdies, Don't Make Me Laugh -- The Pig -- Lines to a World-Famous Poet Who Failed to Complete a World-Famous Poem, or Come Clean, Mr. Guest! -- Taboo to Boot -- The Cobra -- Very Like a Whale -- Advice Outside a Church -- Platitudinous Reflection -- Fragonard -- Electra Becomes Morbid -- Reflection on a Wicked World -- Our Child Doesn't Know Anything, or, Thank God! -- Listen ... -- The Rabbits -- You Have More Freedom in a House -- Love under the Republicans (or Democrats) -- Don't Look Now -- Reminiscent Reflection -- Lines to Be Mumbled at Ovington's -- Dont' Cry, Darling, It's Blood All Right -- Reflections on Ice-Breaking -- Invocation -- King Leer -- My Daddy -- When You Say That, Smile!, or, All Right Then, Don't Smile -- It Must Be the Milk -- A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty -- Procrastinatin Is All of the Time -- Edouard -- The Individualist -- In Which the Poet Is Ashamed But Pleased -- Funebrial Reflection -- I Know You'll Like Them -- Judgment Day -- The Canary -- The Terrible People -- The Tale of Custard the Dragon -- Political Reflection -- It's Never Fair Weather -- Arthur -- Ma, What's a Banker? or, Hush, My Child -- Golly, How Truth Will Out! -- The Camel -- Will Consider Situation -- The Rooster -- Pretty Halcyon Days -- Mr. Peachey's Predicament, or, Not Mot Parades -- The Sea-Gull -- The Big Tent under the Roof -- Drusilla -- A Good Parent's Garden of Vision -- Literary Reflection -- Two and One Are a Problem -- Song of the Open Road -- Thunder over the Nursery -- The Clean Platter -- The Duck -- Mr. Artesian's Conscientiousness -- The Lama -- Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too -- The Parent -- Family Court -- The Life of the Party -- The Germ -- One Third of a Calendar -- More about People -- The Cow -- Lines to a Three-Name Lady -- Little Feet -- Genealogical Reflection -- The Mind of Professor Primrose -- Reflection on Ingenuity -- The Turtle -- After the Christening -- Aside to Husbands -- The Fish -- Tell It to the Eskimos, or, Tell It to the Esquimaux -- Reflection on Caution -- Turns in a Worm's Lane -- Election Day Is a Holiday -- The Rhinoceros -- September Morn -- From a Manhattan Tomb -- Reflection on Babies -- Epstein, Spare That Yule Log! -- Birth Comes to the Archbishop -- Some of My Best Friends Are Children -- Old Men -- A Drink with Something in It -- Watchman, What of the First First Lady? -- Children's Party -- The Panther -- The Very Unclubbable Man -- Pediatric Reflection -- Good-By, Old Year, You Oaf, or, Why Don't They Pay the Bonus? -- A Carol for Children -- Song for a Temperature of a Hundred and One -- What's the Use? -- I Never Ever Suggested It -- The Kitten -- Don't Guess, Let Me Tell You -- The Caribou -- Please Leave Father Alone -- Legal Reflection -- What's the Matter, Haven't You Got Any Sense of Humor? -- Lucy Lake -- The Oyster -- How Long Has This Been Going On? Oh, Quite Long -- A Watched Example Never Boils -- The Wapiti -- Hearts and Flowers, or, What I Know about Bolivar Black -- Spring Comes to Murray Hill -- Nothing But Nature -- Two Songs for a Boss Named Mr. Longwell -- A Warning to Wives -- Song to Be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children -- The Phoenix -- Lines Indited with All the Depravity of Poverty -- Malice Domestic -- Machinery Doesn't Answer, Either, but You Aren't Married to It -- A Child's Guide to Parents -- The Turkey -- The Seven Spiritual Ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore -- Everybody Tells Me Everything -- The Wombat -- Look for the Silver Lining -- Oh, to Be Odd! -- My Dear, How Ever Did You Think Up This Delicious Salad? -- What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner or Later -- Pride Goeth before a Raise, or Ah, There, Mrs. Cadwallader-Smith! -- The Squirrel -- Are You a Snodgrass? -- A Parable for Sports Writers, Society Columnists, Bond Salesmen and Poets, or, Go Get a Reputation -- Reflection on the Fallibility of Nemesis |
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Raven, Don't Stay Away from My Door -- A Chant for April First -- Dragons Are Too Seldom -- Suppose I Darken Your Door -- Look What You Did, Christopher! -- First Payment Deferred -- Hush, Here They Come -- Biological Reflection -- I Yield to My Learned Brother, or, Is There a Candlestick Maker in the House? -- I Had No Idea It Was So Late -- Reflection on the Passage of Time, Its Inevitability and Its Quirks -- Grasshoppers Are Very Intelligent -- Hearts of Gold, or, A Good Excuse Is Worse Than None -- Introspective Reflection -- Curl Up and Diet -- I Have It On Good Authority -- The Middle of the Month -- First Families, Move Over! -- A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes -- Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer -- Prayer at the End of a Rope -- Miriam's Lucky Day -- Women Pulls the Wires -- Song Before Breakfast -- The Unselfish Husband -- The Common Cold -- Splash! -- I'll Get One Tomorrow -- The Japanese -- The Friendly Touch -- Don't Grin, or You'll Have to Bear It -- Song for Ditherers -- The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom -- Experience to Let -- The Man with Two New Suits -- It's Snug to Be Smug -- To a Lady Passing TIme Better Left Unpassed -- The Strange Case of the Blackmailing Dove -- Nine Miles to the Railroad -- Every Day is Monday -- Poor Mr. Strawbridge -- Coffee with the Meal -- The Queen Is in the Parlor -- The Eight O'Clock Peril -- The Strange Case of Mr. Ballentine's Valentine -- Epilogue to Mother's Day, Which Is to Be Published on Any Day but Mother's Day -- England Expects -- This Was Told to Me in Confidence -- Unanswered by Request -- Cat Naps Are Too Good for Cats -- The City -- Nature Knows Best -- Summergreen for President -- The Strange Case of the Dead Divorcee -- Everybody East Too Much Anyhow -- Yes and No -- Columbus -- A Necessary Dirge -- One Man's Meed Is Another Man's Overemphasis -- The Strange Case of the Pleasing Taxi-Driver -- Everbody Makes Poets -- No Wonder Our Fathers Died -- Midsummer's Daymare -- The Strange Case of the Irksome Prude -- A Word on Wind -- A Stitch Too Late Is My Fate -- Spring Song -- Shrinking Song -- The Drop of a Hat -- The Strange Case of Mr. Fortague's Disappointment -- Under the Floor -- The Strange Case of the Ambitious Caddy -- Kind of an Ode to Duty -- Boop-boop-Adieup, Little Group! -- Man Bites Dog-Days -- I'm Terribly Sorry for You, but I Can't Help Laughing -- Where There's a Will, There's Velleity -- The Strange Case of the Girl o' Mr. Sponson's Dreams -- The Calf -- The Purist -- The Ant -- The Hippopotaumus -- The Centipede -- Jangle Bells -- Up from the Wheelbarrow -- Away from it All -- The Sage of Darien -- Pipe Dreams -- Absence Makes the Heart Grow Heart Trouble -- Out Is Out -- Isn't That a Dainty Dish? No! -- Oh, Please Don't Get Up! -- How Now, Sirrah? Oh, Anyhow -- Mr. Barcalow's Breakdown -- The Evening Out -- Song for Pier Something or Other -- The Introduction -- Riding on a Railroad Train -- Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice! -- Parsley for Vice-President! -- Lines to Be Scribbled on Somebody Else's Thirtieth Milestone -- Little Miss Muffet Sat on a Prophet -- and Quite Right, Too -- The Party Next Door -- Locust-Lovers, Attention! -- Traveler's Rest -- The Name Is Too Familiar -- Who Understands Who Anyhow? -- The Banquet -- Do Sphinxes Think? -- Wednesday Matinee -- Barmaids are Diviner Than Mermaids -- So Penseroso -- Complaint to Four Angels -- A Plea for a League of Sleep -- Captain John Smith -- Requiem -- Inter-Office Memorandum -- Time Marches On -- Allow Me, Madam, but It Won't Help -- You and Me and P.B. Shelley -- Glossina Morsitans, or, the Tsetse -- Now Tell Me About Yourself -- Lather As You Go -- Tin Wedding Whistle -- The Skink -- The Strange Case of Mr. Ormantude's Bride -- The Absentees -- April Yule, Daddy! -- I Happen to Know -- I'm Sure She Said Six-Thirty -- Do, Do, Do What You Done, Done, Done Before, Before, Before -- What, No Oysters? -- Ms. Found in a Quagmire -- The Sniffle -- We Don't Need To Leave Yet, Do We? or, Yes We do -- The Smelt -- Slow Down, Mr. Ganderdonk, You're Late -- Creeps and Crawls -- The Screen with the Face with the Voice -- A Visit from Dr. Fell -- Here We Go Quietly Nuts in May -- I Want a Drink of Water, but Not from the Thermos -- The Trouble with Women is Men -- A Beginner's Guide to the Ocean -- The Gander -- Put Back Those Whiskers, I Know You -- Bugs -- No Doctors Today, Thank You -- Dance Unmacabre -- It's a Grand Parade It Will Be, Modern Design -- Down the Mousehole, and What Science Missed There -- Visits Laugh at Locksmiths, or, Hospital Doors Haven't Got Locks Anyhow -- Lament on the Eve of Parting -- Suppose He Threw It in Your Face -- The Grackle -- Now You See It, Now I Don't -- So That's Who I Remind Me of -- There's Always an Ubblebub -- Please Pass the Biscuit -- "Tomorrow, Partly Cloudy" -- Dr. Fell and Points West -- Lines on Facing Forty -- One Night in Oz -- Thought Thought on an Avenue -- Thought Thought While Waiting for a Pronouncement from a Doctor, an Editor, a Big Executive, the Department of Internal Revenue or Any Other Momentous Pronouncer -- Samson Agonistes -- Seeing Eye to Eye Is Believing -- The Strange Case of Mr. Niobob's Transmogrification -- And Three Hundred and Sixty-Six in Leap Year -- Just Wrap It Up, and I'll Throw It Away Later -- Dr. Fell? I Thought So -- The Strange Case of Mr. Pauncefoot's Broad Mind -- Summer Serenade |
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So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much -- Don't Even Tell Your Wife, Particularly -- The Jellyfish -- Frailty, Thy Name is a Misnomer -- The Caraway Seed -- Celery -- Please Keep Forewarding -- Assorted Chocolates -- The Parsnip -- I Burn Money -- The Porpoise -- The Shark -- The Cantaloupe -- The Octopus -- Has Anbody Seen My Noumenon? -- The Mermaid -- A Bulletin Has Just Come In -- The Eel -- The Wasp -- Not George Washington's, not Abraham Lincoln's, but Mine -- The Kangeroo -- Don't Wait, Hit Me Now! -- Further Reflection on Parsley -- I'll Write Their Number Down When We Get Home -- The Fly -- Ask Daddy, He Won't Know -- The Termite -- Fahrenheit Gesundheit -- I Will Arise and Go Now -- The Hunter -- Thoughts Thought After a Bridge Party -- Any Millenniums Today, Lady? -- A Word about Winter -- How Do You Say Ha-Ha in French? -- Let's Not Climb the Washington Monument Tonight -- Who Did Which? or, Who Indeed? -- You Bet Traveling Is Broadening -- What to Do until the Doctor Goes, or, It's Tomorrow Than You Think -- Two Dogs Have I -- On Waking to the Third Rainy Morning of a Long Week End -- Quick, Hammacher, My Stomacher! -- The Cherub -- Who Called That Robin a Piccolo Player? -- What I Know About Life -- Very Funny, Very Funny -- We Would Refer You to Our Service Department, If We Had One -- First Limick -- Who Taught Caddies to Count? or, A Burn Golfer Fears the Child -- There Were Giants in Those Days, or, Maybe There Weren't -- Tarkington, Thou Should'st Be Living in This Hour -- The Strange Case of Mr. Palliser's Palate -- Will You Have Your Tedium Rare or Medium? -- The Porcupine -- There's Nothing Like Instinct. Fortunately. -- Martha's Vineyard -- The People Upstairs -- The Strange Case of the Renegade Lyric Writer -- Tableau at Twilight -- There Are More Ways to Roast A Pig Than Burning the House Down, or, You Can Always Stick Your Head in a Volcano -- Second Limick -- September is Summer, Too, or, It's Never Too Late to Be Uncomfortable -- The Second Month It's Not Itemized -- The Lion -- Soliloquy in Circles -- Roll On, Though Deep and Dark Blue Copy Writer -- Roll! -- The Strange Case of the Entomologist's Heart -- Third Limick -- Possessions Are Nine Points of Conversation -- Polterguest, My Polterguest -- Piano Tuner, Untume Me That Tune -- Pappy Wants a Poppy -- Not Even for Brunch -- The Outcome of Mr. Buck's Superstition -- Mrs. Purvis Dreads Room Service, or, Mr. Purvis Dreads It, Too -- Oh Shucks, Ma'am, I Mean Excuse Me -- Always Marry An April Girl -- The Private Dining Room -- Peekaboo, I Almost See You -- Correction: Eve Delved and Adam Span -- My Trip Daorba -- The Anniversary -- All, All, Are Gone, the Old Familiar Quotations -- The Happy Ending of Mr. Train -- The Calendar-Watchers, or, What's So Wonderful About Being a Patriarch? -- I'm a Pleasure to Shop For -- A Caution to Everybody -- I Didn't Say a Word, or, Who Called That Piccolo Player a Father? -- Calling Spring VII-MMMC -- Everybody's Mind to Me a Kingdom Is, or, A Great Big Wonderful World It's -- Next! -- They Won't Believe, on New Year's Eve, That New Year's Day Will Come What May -- Change Here for Wichita Falls, or, Has Anybody Seen My Wanderlust? -- Don't Look for the Silver Lining, Just Wait For It -- The Astigmatic Naturalist: The Caterpillar, The Toucan, The Platypus, The Hamster -- Two Goes Into Two Once, if You Can Get It There -- Why the Postman Has to Ring Twice, or, Yellow Envelope, Where Have You Gone? -- The Wild Jackass -- The Tortoise -- The Mules -- The Cuckoo -- The Birds -- The Swan -- The Voluble Wheel Chair -- The Child is Father to the Man, but with More Authority -- The Visit -- A Dog's Best Friend Is His Illiteracy -- Eheu! Fugaces, or, What a Difference a Lot of Days Make -- Everybody Want to Get into the Baedeker |
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The Wendigo -- Mr. Bett's Mind a Kingdom Is -- The Strange Case of the Cautious Motorist -- The Unwinged Ones -- Whit Is Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo in Sanskrit? -- You Can be A Republican, I'm a Gerontocrat -- Fables Bulfinch Forgot: Chloe and the Roué, The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules, Medusa and the Motjuste, Leda's Fortunate Gaffe -- Hi-Ho the Ambulance-o -- Everything's Haggis in Hoboken, or, Scots Wha Hae Hae -- Father, Dear Father, Go Jump in the Lake, or, You're Costlier than You Think -- What's in a Name" Some Letter I Always Forget -- The Strange Case of Mr. O'Banion's Come-Uppance -- Hand Me Down the Old School Sliding Pads, or, There's a Hint of Stawberry Leaves in the Air -- The Strange Case of the Lovelorn Letter Writer -- How to Be Married without a Spouse, or, Mr. Kipling, What Have You Done with Mr. Hauksbee? -- Have a Seat behind the Potted Palm, Sir -- The Bat -- The Chipmunk -- Let's Not Play Lotto, Let's Just Talk -- Tweedledee and Tweedledoom -- I Remember Yule -- Kipling's Vermont -- Max Schling, Max Schling, Lend Me Your Green Thumb: A Travelogue of Flowery Catalogues -- It's About Time -- Maybe You Can't Take It with You, but Look What Happens When You Leave It Behind -- The Club Car -- Lecturer in Bookstore -- Reflection on the Vernacular -- This Is My Own, My Native Tongue -- Love Me but Leave My Dog Alone -- It Figures -- Tune for an Ill-Tempered Clavichord -- Anybody for Money? or, Just Bring Your Own Basket -- Birthday on the Beach -- So I Resigned from the Chu Chin Chowder and Marching Club -- Nature Walks, or, Not to Mention a Dopping of Sheldrakes: The Squid, The Ostrich, The Praying Mantis, The Abominable Snowman, The Manatee, the Squab -- Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New, But Don't Get Caught in Between: First Chime, Second Chime -- Ms. Found under a Serviette in a Lovely Home -- Don't Be Cross, Amanda -- Oafishness Sells Good, like an Advertisement Should -- Sic Semper Mr. Sherman's Temper, or, Kindly Place Your Order in English -- And How Keen Was the Vision of Sir Launfal? -- The Solitude of Mr. Powers -- A Brief Guide to Rhyming, or, How Be the Little Busy Doth? -- Can I Get You a Glass of Water? or, Please Close the Glottis after You -- Chacun á Son Berlitz -- I Spy, or, The Depravity of Privacy -- The Nymph and the Shepherd, or, She Went That-a-way -- The Emancipation of Mr. Poplin, or, Skoal to the Skimmerless -- The Buses Headed for Scranton -- Fee Fi Ho Hum, No Wonder Baby Sucks Her Thumb -- An Enthusiast Is a Devotee Is a Rooter, or, Mr. Hemingway, Meeet Mr Stengel -- Your Lead, Partner, I Hope We're Reading the Same Book -- Ho, Varlet! My Two Cents' Worth of Penny Postcard! -- It Would Have Been Quicker to Walk, or Don't Tell Me We're There Already -- Come On In, the Senility is Fine -- Exit, Pursued by a Bear -- All's Brilig in Tin Pan Alley: I Saw Euterpe Kissing Santa Claus, Good Night, Sweet Mind -- The Literary Scene -- Anybody Else Hate Nickynames? -- Caesar Knifed Again, or Culture Biz Gets Hep, Boffs Profs -- Do You Plan to Speak Bantu? or, Abbreviation Is the Thief of Sanity -- I Can Hardly Wait for the Sandman -- If Fun is Fun, Is't That Enough? -- Mr. Burgess, Meet Mr. Barmecide -- Never Mind the Overcoat, Button Up That Lip -- My My: My Dream, My Conscience -- I Can't Have a Martii, Dear, but You Take One, or, Are You Going to Sit There Guzzling All Night? -- I Always Say There's No Place Like New York in th Summer, or, That Cottage Small by a Waterfall Was Snapped Up Last February -- Up from the Egg: the Confessions of a Nuthatch Avoider -- I Know Exactly Who Dropped the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder -- Old for Books -- Period Period: Period I, Period II -- No Woe Is Gossamer to Mr. Bessemer -- I'll Eat My Split-level Turkey in the Breezeway -- The Self-effacement of Electra Thorne -- The Snark Was a Boojum Was A Prawn -- There'll Always Be a War between the Sexes, or, A Woman Can be Sometimes Pleased, but never Satisfied -- Preface to the Past -- The Strange Case of the Lucrative Compromise -- The Strange Case of Mr. Wood's Frustration, or, A Team That Won't Be Beaten Better Stay Off the Field -- Table Talk: Yorkshire Pudding, The Sweetbread, The Pizza, The Shad -- To Ee Is Human -- That's Funny, Wasn't It? No, It Won't Be -- What's In a Name? Here's What's in a Name, or, I Wonder What Became of John and Mary -- Try It Suns. and Hols. ; It's Closed Then -- Posies from a Second Childhood, or, Hark How Gaffer Do Chaffer -- Daddy's Home, See You Tomorrow -- The Absentees -- A Boy's Will Is the Wind's WIll? -- How to Harry a Husband, or, Is That Accessory Really Necessary? -- Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let's Let Down Our Hair -- What, No Sheep? -- What the Well-read Patient Is Talking About, or, Look, Ma, What I Got! -- Crossing the Border. |
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Verses.
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American poetry.
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Poetry.
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Online version: Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971. Verses from 1929 on. New York, Modern Library [©1959] (OCoLC)663792438 |
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