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Chapter 5: Index
By Bert Leston Taylor
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A lively collection of short, humorous poems and verse sketches that blend satire, parody, and affectionate domestic observation. The pieces range from brief epigrams and comic monologues to longer mock-heroic narratives, using wordplay, rhyme, and repeated refrains to lampoon social foibles, literary fashions, and everyday family scenes. Characters and situations are portrayed with ironic warmth, and recurring motifs include playful takes on religion, nature, children's storytelling, and popular reading. The tone alternates between sly wit and genial absurdity, and the arrangement mixes standalone jokes with slightly extended ballads, offering light entertainment and clever verbal craftsmanship.

Index

Always 82
Autumn Revery 104
Ballad of Misfits 63
Ballade of a Bore 97
Ballade of the Cannery 86
Ballade of Cap and Bells 76
Ballade of Death and Time 28
Ballade of Irresolution 68
Ballade of the Pipesmoke Carry 110
Ballade of Spring’s Unrest 22
Ballade of Wool-Gathering 48
Bards We Quote, The 113
Bread Puddynge 42
Breakfast Food Family, The 19
Coronation, The 107
Day of the Comet, The 66
Dinosaur, The 75
Dornröschen 34
“Farewell” 36
Gentle Doctor Brown 78
Hence These Rimes 115
Horace: A Note from Mr. Flaccus 54
I. To Aristius Fuscus 56
II. Duetto 57
III. To Pyrrha 59
IV. To Aristius Fuscus 60
V. To Sylvia 62
How They Might Have Brought the Good News 73
In the Gallery 80
In the Lamplight 17
Kaiser’s Farewell, The 30
Land of Rainbow’s-End, The 95
Laundry of Life, The 93
Lay of St. Ambrose 9
Miss Legion 27
Modern Mariner, The 84
Morning After, The 67
Musca Domestica 45
My Lady New York 109
Old Roller Towel, The 116
Oriental Apology, An 65
Pandean Pipedreams 88
Passional Note, The 119
Passionate Professor, The 47
Persistent Poet, The 114
Pole, The 99
Post-Vacational 112
Recoil, The 105
Reform in Our Town 38
Rime of the Clark Street Cable 25
Sh-h-h-h! 101
Simple, Heartfelt Lay, The 53
Sons of Battle 108
To a Tall Spruce 14
To Lillian Russell 32
To the Sun 50
To What Base Uses 70
“Treasure Island” 21
Up Culture’s Hill 117
Vanished Fay, The 102
When It Is Hot 51
When the Sirup’s on the Flapjack 41
Why? 24
Wisdom in a Capsule 94