LEADER 00000cam 2200000 i 4500 001 ocm04195130 003 OCoLC 005 20100917010014.0 008 780814s1979 nyu 001 0 eng 010 78012356 015 B8003287 019 59174477 020 0195025091 020 9780195025095 035 (OCoLC)04195130 035 (OCoLC)4195130|z(OCoLC)59174477 040 DLC|beng|cDLC|dMUQ|dBAKER|dNLGGC|dBTCTA|dOCLCG|dYDXCP|dAU@ |dNLE|dUKV3G|dSEO|dGEBAY|dHALAN 049 XOFA 050 0 PS586|b.O95 082 00 811/.07|218 084 18.05|2bcl 245 04 The Oxford book of American light verse /|cchosen and edited by William Harmon. 264 1 New York :|bOxford University Press,|c1979. 300 l, 540 pages ;|c23 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 490 1 The chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew ;|v7 500 Includes index. 505 0 Contents --|rAnonymous /|tYankee Doodle --|rFrancis Hopkinson /|tThe Battle of the Kegs --|rSt. George Tucker /|tThe Cynic --|tThe Discontented Student --|tThe Judge with the Sore Rump --|rJoel Barlow /|tThe Hasty Pudding (from "Canto I, Canto III") --|rRoyall Tyler / |tAnacreontic to Flip --|tThe Widower --|tOriginal Epitaph on a Drunkard --|rSamuel Low /|tTo a Segar --|rJohn Quincy Adams /|tThe Wants of Man --|tTo Sally --|rClement Moore / |tA Visit from St. Nicholas --|rFrancis Scott Key /|tTo My Cousin Mary, for Mending My Tobacco Pouch --|tWritten at the White Sulphur Springs --|rFitz-Greene Halleck /|tFanny (Stanzas xlvi-lxviii) --|tSong --|rLydia Huntley Sigourney /|tGod Save the Plough --|rGeorge Moses Horton /|tNew Fashions --|tSnaps for Dinner, Snaps for Breakfast, and Snaps for Supper --|rRalph Waldo Emerson /|tFable --|tThe Test --|tSolution --|tPrudence --|rNathaniel Parker Willis /|tThe Lady Jane: A Humorous Novel in Rhyme (Canto I, Stanzas xix-xxii and xci) --|tTo the Lady in the Chemisette with Black Buttons --|tThe Declaration --|tTo Helen in a Huff --|rHenry Wadsworth Longfellow /|tThe Village Blacksmith --|tThe Children's Hour --|tPaul Revere's Ride --|rJohn Greenleaf Whittier /|tThe Haschish --|tBarbara Frietchie --|tThe Barefoot Boy --|tSkipper Ireson's Ride --|rThomas Holley Chivers /|tLily Adair -- |tThe Moon of Mobile --|rOliver Wendell Holmes /|tThe Height of the Ridiculous --|tÆstivation --|tThe Deacon's Masterpiece --|tOde for a Social Meeting --|tA Sea Dialogue --|rEdgar Allan Poe /|tThe Bells --|rJames Thomas Fields /|tThe Owl Critic --|tJupiter and Ten --|rJames Russell Lowell /|tIn an Album --|tA Misconception --|tThe Boss --|tfrom "The Biglow Papers" The Courtin' --|tRev. Homer Wilbur's "Festina Lente" --|rHerman Melville /|tIn a Garret --|tThe Bench of Boors --|tThe Attic Landscape -- |tThe Lover and the Syringa-Bush --|tThe New Ancient of Days --|rWalt Whitman /|tA Boston Ballad --|rCharles Godfrey Leland /|tHans Breitmann's Party --|tBreitmann in Politics --|rPhoebe Cary /|tSamuel Brown --|tThe Day is Done --|tJacob --|rWilliam Allen Butler /|tNothing To Wear --|rBayard Taylor /|tThe Ballad of Hiram Hover -- |tPalabras Grandiosas --|tNauvoo --|rStephen Collins Foster /|tGwine To Run All Night; or, De Camptown Races -- |tOh! Susanna 505 0 |rAnonymous /|tThe Little Brown Jug --|tSweet Betsey from Pike --|tClementine --|tStarving to Death on a Government Claim --|tThe Factory Girl's Come-All-Ye --|tAn Ode on Gas --|rJohn Townsend Trowbridge /|tDarius Greene and His Flying-Machine --|tRecollections of "Lalla Rookh" -- |tFilling an Order --|rSeptimus Winner /|tTen Little Injuns --|tThe Coolie Chinee --|tLilliputian's Beer Song - -|rEmily Dickinson /|tA bird came down the walk --|tI like to see it lap the miles --|tHis Mansion in the Pool -- |rMary Mapes Dodge /|tThe Zealless Xylographer --|rEdmund Clarence Stedman /|tThe Ballad of Lager Bier --|rGeorge Arnold /|tBeer --|rCharles H. Webb ("John Paul")/|tAutumn Leaves --|tAt the Ball! --|rSamuel Langhorne Clemens ("Mark Twain") /|tThe Aged Pilot Man (from "Roughing It") --|tImitation of Julia A. Moore (from "Following the Equator") --|tEmmeline Grangerford's "Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd" (from "Huckleberry Finn") --|rThomas Bailey Aldrich /|tFannie --|tAt a Reading --|rAnonymous / |tThe Young Woman from Aenos --|rBret Harte /|tColenso Rhymes for Orthodox Children --|tSchemmelfenning --|tPlain Language from Truthful James --|tThe Society upon the Stanislaus --|rR.H. Newell ("Orpheus C. Kerr") /|tThe Rejected "National Hymns" --|tThe American Traveller -- |tColumbia's Agony --|tThe Editor's Wooing --|tThe Neutral British Gentleman --|tTuscalossa Sam --|tDear Father, Look Up --|tWhen Your Cheap Divorce Is Granted --|tO, Be Not Too Hasty, My Dearest --|rInnes Randolph /|tThe Rebel -- |rAnonymous /|tTwo Appeals to John Harralson, Agent, Nitre and Mining Bureau, C.S.A. --|rJohn Hay /|tThe Pledge at Spunky Point --|tGood and Bad Luck --|rCharles E. Carryl / |tA Nautical Ballad --|rCharles Heber Clark ("Max Adeler") /|tMr. Slimmer's Funeral Verses for the Morning Argus -- |tAlexander McGlue --|tWillie --|tJohnny Smith --|tHanner --|tMrs. McFadden --|tAlexander --|rCharles Follen Adams / |tTo Bary Jade --|tRepartée --|tJohn Barley-Corn, My Foe - -|tMisplaced Sympathy --|tMy Infundibuliform Hat -- |rAmbrose Bierce /|tfrom "The Devil's Dictionary" - Body- Snatcher -|tCorporal --|tEgotist --|tElegy --|tLead -- |tNose --|tOrthography --|tProspect --|tSafety-Clutch -- |rAnonymous /|tWillie the Weeper --|tNo More Booze --|tThe Drunkard and the Pig --|rRobert Jones Burdette /|tOrphan Born --|t"Soldier, Rest!" --|rJohn B. Tabb /|tFoot- Soldiers --|tBicycles! Tricycles! --|tClose Quarters --|tA Rub --|tThe Tryst --|rJulia A. Moore /|tGrand Rapids -- |tAshtabula Disaster --|tLittle Libbie --|tSketch of Lord Byron's Life --|rJames Whitcomb Riley /|tCraqueodoom --|tA Rose in October --|tWhen the Frost Is on the Punkin -- |tLittle Orphant Annie --|tThe Diners in the Kitchen -- |rRuth Mcenery Stuart /|tThe Endless Song --|rFred Emerson Brooks /|tForeigners at the Fair --|tBarnyard Melodies -- |rEugene Field /|tThe Little Peach --|tWynken, Blynken, and Nod --|tLittle Boy Blue --|tThe Duel --|rSamuel C. Bushnell /|tBoston --|rSamuel Minturn Peck /|tA Kiss in the Rain --|rJohn Philip Sousa /|tThe Feast of the Monkeys --|tHave You Seen the Lady? --|rH.C. Bunner /|tPoetry and the Poet --|t"Home, Sweet Home", with Variations --|rBen King /|tIf I Should Die --|tThe Mermaid --|tThe Hair-Tonic Bottle --|tThe Cultured Girl Again --|tThe Pessimist 505 0 |rAnonymous /|tKentucky Moonshiner --|tRoy Bean --|rSam Walter Foss /|tHusband and Heathen --|tA Philosopher -- |rNixon Waterman /|tCheer for the Consumer --|tIf We Didn't Have to Eat --|rHamlin Garland /|tHorses Chawin' Hay --|tGoin' Back T'morrer --|rBliss Carman /|tA More Ancient Mariner --|rOliver Brook Herford /|tThe Fall of J.W. Beane --|tEve --|rErnest lawrence Thayer /|tCasey at the Bat --|rRichard Hovey /|tEleazar Wheelock --|tBarney McGee --|rJ. Gordon Coogler /|tAlas! Carolina! --|tAlas! for the South! --|tTo Amy --|tByron --|tIn Memorial --|tA Mustacheless Bard --|tA Pretty Girl --|rGeorge Ade /|tIl Janitoro --|tThe Microbe's Serenade --|tR-E-M-O-R-S-E (from "The Sultan of Sulu") --|rGelett Burgess /|tThe Purple Cow --|tCinq Ans Aprés --|rTom Masson /|tEnough -- |tMy Poker Girl --|tA Tragedy --|tHe Took Her --|rBert Leston Taylor ("B.L.T.") /|tDoxology --|tThose Flapjacks of Brown's --|tUpon Julia's Arctics --|tAprilly --|rEdgar Lee Masters /|tJonathan Swift Somers --|tThe Spooniad -- |rEdwin Arlington Robinson /|tVariations of Greek Themes (II, III, IV) --|rCarolyn Wells /|tDiversions of the Re- Echo Club --|rJohn Palmer /|tThe Band Played On -- |rStephen Crane /|tA man said to the universe --|tTell me not in joyous numbers --|rAnonymous /|tThe Big Rock Candy Mountains --|tThe Four Nights' Drunk --|tThe Frozen Logger --|rT.A. Daly /|tPennsylvania Places --|rArthur Guiterman /|tSong of Hate for Eels --|tHeredity --|tBrief Essay on Man --|tEverything in Its Place --|rBen Harney /|tYou've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You've Done Broke Down -- |tMister Johnson --|rGuy Wetmore Carryl /|tHow a Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar /|tThe Domineering Eagle and the Inventive Bratling --|rRobert Frost /|tDepartmental -- |tThe Hardship of Accounting --|tA Considerable speck -- |tFor Travelers Going Sidereal--|tPride of Ancestry -- |tThe Rose Family --|rRussell Hillard Loines /|tOn a Magazine Sonnet --|rAmy Lowell /|tThe Painted Ceiling -- |tEpitaph on a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success --|rGertrude Stein /|tSacred Emily --|rAndrew B. Sterling /|tUnder the Anheuser Bush --|tWhat You Goin' To Do When the Rent Comes 'Round? --|tMeet Me in St. Louis, Louis --|rAnonymous /|tMademoiselle from Armentières -- |rWallace Irwin /|tThe Constant Cannibal Maiden --|rHughie Cannon /|tBill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? 505 0 |rAnthony Euwer /|tThe True Facts of the Case --|tThe Face --|rDon Marquis /|tcertain maxims of archy --|tarchy at the zoo --|rCarl Sandburg /|tfrom "The People, Yes" - Section 32 --|tSection 41 --|tSection 42 --|tOn a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride --|tOne Modern Poet -- |rVachel Lindsay /|tThe Little Turtle --|tTwo Old Crows -- |rJack Norworth /|tTake Me Out to the Ballgame --|rWallace Stevens /|tDepression Before Spring --|tThe Pleasures of Merely Circulating --|rFranklin P. Adams ("F.P.A.") / |tComposed in the Composing Room --|tLines Where Beauty Lingers --|tThe Double Standard --|tThe Rich Man --|tIf- - -|rWitter Bynner /|tTo a President --|rEdgar A. Guest / |tHome --|tLemon Pie --|tSausage --|rJoseph W. Stilwell / |tLyric to Spring --|rWilliam Carlos Williams /|tTo a Poor Old Woman --|tProletarian Portrait --|tTo --|tTo Greet a Letter-Carrier --|tThese Purists --|tBallad of Faith -- |tAprès le Bain --|tThe Intelligent Sheepman and the New Cars --|rKeith Preston /|tLapsus Linguae --|tEffervescence and Evanescence --|rRing Lardner /|tParodies of cole Porter's "Night and Day" --|tHardly a man is now alive -- |tHail to thee, blithe owl --|tQuiescent, a person sits heart and soul --|tAbner Silver's "Pu-leeze! Mr. Hemingway! --|rEzra Pound /|tAn Immorality --|tMeditatio - -|tTame Cat --|tAncient Music --|tCantico del Sole -- |rLouis Untermeyer /|tSong Tournament: New Style --|tEdgar A. Guest --|rElinor Wylie /|tSimon Gerty --|rMarianne Moore /|tI May, I Might, I Must --|tHometown Piece for Messers. Alston and Reese --|tW.S. Landor --|rT.S. Eliot / |tAunt Helen --|tCousin Nancy --|tLines to Ralph Hodgson, Esqre. --|tLines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg --|rNewman Levy /|tTannhauser --|tRigoletto --|rJohn Crowe Ransom /|tAmphibious Crocodile --|tPhilomela --|tHer Eyes --|tOur Two Worthies --|tDog --|tSurvey of Literature -- |rConrad Aiken /|tObituary in Bitcherel --|tThere once was a wicked young minister --|tAnimula vagula blandula -- |tSighed a dear little shipboard divinity --|rStoddard King /|tHearth and Home --|tBreakfast Song in Time of Diet --|tThe Difference --|rSamuel Hoffenstein /|tLove-Songs, At Once Tender and Informative (I-XXIII) --|rChristopher Morley /|tElegy Written in a Country Coal-Bin --|tForever Ambrosia --|rArchibald MacLeish /|tMother Goose's Garland --|tCorporate Entity --|tThe End of the World --|tCritical Observations --|rEdna St. Vincent Millay /|tFrom a Very Little Sphinx (I-VII) 505 0 |rMorris Bishop /|tGas and Hot Air --|tBishop Orders His Tomb in St. Praxed's --|tHow To Treat Elves --|tWho'd Be a Hero (Fictional)? --|rMaxwell Bodenheim /|tUpper Family -- |rDorothy Parker /|tComment --|tRésumé --|tNews Item -- |tOne Perfect Rose --|tPartial Comfort --|rCole Porter / |tAnything Goes --|tLet's Do It --|tMy Heart Belongs to Daddy --|tYou're the Top --|tWell, Did You Evah? --|tBrush Up Your Shakespeare --|rE.E. Cummings /|tthe Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls --|ttwentyseven bums give a prostitute the once --|tPoem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal --|tslightly before the middle of Congressman Pudd - -|tmy sweet old etcetera --|tQ:dwo --|tflotsam and jetsam --|ta politician is an arse upon --|tmeet mr universe (who clean... --|rBessie Smith /|tEmpy Bed Blues --|rOscar Hammerstein II /|tKansas City --|tMoney Isn't Everything! --|tThere Is Nothin' Like a Dame --|rLorenz Hart / |tManhattan --|tMountain Greenery --|tThe Blue Room -- |tThe Lady Is a Tramp --|tThe Most Beautiful Girl in the World --|rRobert Hillyer /|tMoo! --|rEdmund Wilson / |tDrafts for a Quatrain --|tSomething for My Russian Friends --|rIra Gershwin /|tIt Ain't Necessarily So -- |tBlah, Blah, Blah --|rKenneth Burke /|tNursery Rhyme -- |tFrigate Jones, the Pussyfooter --|tCivil Defense -- |tKnow Thyself --|rDavid McCord /|tThe Axolotl --|tGloss - -|tTo a Certain Most Certainly Certain Critic --|tMantis - -|tBaccalaureate --|tHistory of Education --|tEpitaph on a Waiter --|rAnonymous /|tThe heavyweight champ of Seattle - -|rStephen Vincent Benét /|tAmerican Names --|tHymn in Columbus Circle --|tA Nonsense Song --|rErnest Hemingway / |tThe Ernest Liberal's Lament --|tNeo-Thomist Poem -- |tValentine --|rVladimir Nabokov /|tA Literary Dinner -- |tOde to a Model --|rBilly Rose /|tBarney Google --|tDoes the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight? -- |rE.B. White /|tMarble-Top --|tWindow Ledge in the Atom Age --|rLangston Hughes /|tBad Morning --|tWake --|tWhat? --|tLittle Lyric --|tEnnui --|tSituation --|tBe-Bop Boys - -|tHope --|rOgden Nash /|tInvocation --|tSong of the Open Road --|tLines to a World-Famous Poet Who Failed To Complete a World-Famous Poem; or, Come Clean, Mr. Guest! - -|tThe Turtle --|tThe Panther --|tThe Rhinoceros -- |tGenealogical Reflection --|tThey Don't Speak English in Paris --|tAdventures of Isabel --|tThe Ant --|tReflection on Ice-Breaking --|rCountee Cullen /|tFor a Lady I Know -- |tFor a Mouthy Woman 505 0 |rRichard Eberhart /|tI Went To See Irving Babbitt -- |rStanley Kunitz /|tThe Summing-up --|rPhyllis McGinley / |tPublisher's Party --|tAbout Children --|tEvening Musicale --|rKenneth Rexroth /|tFact --|tA Bestiary -- |tObservations in a Cornish Teashop --|rRobert Penn Warren /|tMan in the Street --|rHelen Bevington /|tMr. Rockefeller's Hat --|tPenguins in the Home --|tMrs. Trollope in America --|rW.H. Suden /|tThe Asethetic Point of View --|tHenry Adams --|tT.S. Eliot --|rTheodore Roethke /|tAcademic --|tDinky --|tThe Cow --|tThe Sloth -- |tThe Kitty-Cat Bird --|tA Rouse for Stevens --|rJohnny Mercer /|tI'm an Old Cowhand --|tJubilation T. Cornpone -- |tThe Glow-worm --|rElder Olson /|tChilde Roland, etc. -- |rPeter Devries /|tBeth Appleyard's Verses - Loveliest of Pies --|tBacchanal --|tPsychiatrist --|rFrank Loesser / |tGuys and Dolls --|rJ.V. Cunningham /|tfrom "Doctor Drink" (3 and 4) --|tUncollected Poems and Epigrams -- |rRichard Harter Fogle /|tA Hawthorne Garland -- |rAnonymous /|tThe Virtues of Carnation Milk --|rJOhn Berryman /|tDream Song #4 --|tAmerican Lights, Seen from Off Abroad --|rGeorge Hitchock /|tThree Found Poems -- |rRandall Jarrell /|tThe Blind Sheep --|rWilliam Stafford /|tReligion Back Home --|rTennessee Williams /|tCarrousel Time --|tSugar in the Cane --|tKitchen Door Blues --|tGold Tooth Blues --|rReuel Denney /|tFixer of Midnight --|rJohn Ciardi /|tBallad of the Icondic --|tGoodnight --|tDawn of the Space Age --|tTo a Reviewer Who Admired My Book --|tOn Evolution --|rPeter Viereck /|t1912-1952, Full Cycle -- |rWilliam Jay Smith /|tDachshunds --|tRandom Generation of English Sentences; or, The Revenge of the Poets -- |rWilliam Cole /|tMarriage Couplet --|tMutual Problem -- |tPoor Kid --|tMysterious East --|tWhat a Friend We Have in Chesses! --|rLawrence Ferlinghetti /|tUnderwear --|rMax Shulman /|tHonest Abe Lincoln- --|rHoward Nemerov / |tEpigrams --|rHoward Moss /|tCats and Dogs --|rAlan Dugan /|tOn a Seven-Day Diary --|rAnthony Hecht /|tThe Dover Bitch --|tImprovisations on Aesop --|tFirmness --|tFrom the Grove Press --|tVice --|rNorman Mailer /|tDevils -- |rLouis Simpson /|tNew Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg --|tOn the Lawn at the Villa --|rEdward Gorey /|tThere was young woman named Plunnery --|tSome Harvard men, stalwart and hairy --|tThe babe, with a cry brief and dismal --|tA lady who signs herself "Vexed" -- |tFrom the bathing machine came a din --|rCarolyn Kizer / |tOne to Nothing --|rKenneth Koch /|tA Poem of the Forty- eight States --|rA.R. Ammons /|tFirst Carolina Said-Song - -|tSecond Carolina Said-Song --|tAuto Mobile --|tChasm -- |tNeeds --|tCleavage --|tCoward 505 0 |rRobert Creeley /|tShe Went to Stay --|tBallad of the Despairing Husband --|tThe Man --|rAllen Ginsberg /|tBop Lyrics --|rFrank O'Hara /|tTo the Film Industry in Crisis --|rJames Merrill /|tTomorrows --|rJames Wright /|tLove in a Warm Room in Winter --|rDonald Hall /|tTo a Waterfowl -- |tProfessor Gratt --|tBreasts --|rJohn Hollander /|tTo the Lady Protrayed by Margaret Dumont --|tHeliogabalus -- |tLast Words --|tAppearance and Reality --|tHistorical Reflections --|tNo Foundation --|rX.J. Kennedy /|tIn a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day --|tJapanese Beetles -- |tLast Lines --|rJonathan Williams /|tThe Hermit Cackleberry Brown, on Human Vanity --|tUncle Iv Surveys His Domain from His Rocker of a Sunday Afternoon as Aunt Dory Starts to Chop Kindling --|tMrs. Sadie Grindstaff, Weaver and Factotum, Explains the Work-Principle to the Modern World --|tThree Sayings from Highlands, North Carolina --|tThe Anthropophagites See a Sign on NC Highway 177 That Looks Like Heaven --|rJohn Barth /|tThe Minister's Last Lay (from "Anonymiad") --|rGregory Corso / |tMarriage --|rStephen Sondheim /|tGee, Officer Krupke -- |rGeorge Starbuck /|tOn First Looking in on Blodgett's Keat's "Chapman's Homer" --|tHigh Renaissance --|tChip -- |tSonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line --|tSaid (J. Alfred Prufrock) --|tSaid (Agatha Christie) - -|tMonarch of the Sea --|rJohn Updike /|tThe Amish --|tI Missed His Book, But I Read His Name --|tRecital -- |rRobert Sward|tAmerican Heritage --|rMichael Benedikt / |tFate in Incognito --|rWilliam Harmon /|tBureaucratic Limerick --|rCharles Simic /|tWatermelons --|rRoy Blount, Jr. /|tAgainst Broccoli --|tFor the Record --|tGryll's State --|rNikki Giovanni /|tMaster Charge Blues --|tPoem for Unwed Mothers --|rJames Tate /|tMy Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry --|tThe President Slumming -- |tConjuring Roethke --|rKathleen Norris /|tStomach -- |tMemorandum/The Accountant's Notebook. 648 7 Geschichte 1700-1975|2swd 648 7 Geschichte 1750-1977|2swd 650 0 American poetry. 650 0 Humorous poetry, American. 700 1 Harmon, William,|d1938- 776 08 |iOnline version:|tOxford book of American light verse. |dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1979 |w(OCoLC)569537951 800 1 Gregory, Susanna,|d1958-|tMatthew Bartholomew series ;|v7. 914 MID.b11967195 994 02|bXOF 999 series update YL
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