Rose Koven, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed

   Proofreading Team.

   Narratives, Satires, Enigmas, Burlesques, Parodies, Travesties,

   Epigrams, Epitaphs, Translations, Including the Most Celebrated Comic

   Poems of the Anti-Jacobin, Rejected Addresses, the Ingoldsby Legends,

   Blackwood's Magazine, Bentley's Miscellany, and Punch.

   With More Than Two Hundred Epigrams, and the Choicest Humorous Poetry

   of Wolcott, Cowper, Lamb, Thackeray, Praed, Swift, Scott, Holmes,

   Aytoun, Gay, Burns, Southey, Saxe, Hood, Prior, Coleridge, Byron,

   Moore, Lowell, Etc.

   The design of the projector of this volume was, that it should
contain the Best of the shorter humorous poems in the literatures
of England and the United States, except:

   Poems so local or cotemporary in subject or allusion, as not to be
readily understood by the modern American reader;

   Poems which, from the freedom of expression allowed in the healthy
ages, can not now be read aloud in a company of men and women;

   Poems that have become perfectly familiar to every body, from their
incessant reproduction in school-books and newspapers; and

   Poems by living American authors, who have collected their humorous
pieces from the periodicals in which most of them originally appeared,
and given them to the world in their own names.

   Holmes, Saxe, and Lowell are, therefore, only REPRESENTED in this
collection. To have done more than fairly represent them, had been to
infringe rights which are doubly sacred, because they are not

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