
Collected Poems of Richard Griffin
Contents
Collected Poems of Richard Griffin
INTRODUCTION
LIFE AND WORKS OF RICHARD GRIFFIN.
EPIGRAPH
PREFACE
SHORT ACCOUNT OF AUTHOR
PRELUDE – THE C.O.D. REVENGE
THE DELAWARE BRIDE AND OTHER POEMS
THE DELAWARE BRIDE
WHEN?
OH THERE!
KIPPENS
LEGEND OF THE RHINE
WHERE THE FIRECRACKERS CRACK
DEAR AUNT ANN
MIDNIGHT
TRIBULATIONS OF PEFULARTIES
THE EXECUTIONER
GROANINGS FROM THE SEPULCHRE
A TALE OF FRAUNCES' TAVERN A.D. 1765 AND OTHER POEMS
A TALE OF FRAUNCES TAVERN. A. D. 1765.
SEVENTEEN GANDERS FROM FLANDERS.
QUESTIONS
TAFFY ON A STICK
TO A DODO
SNOOKY BILLY
SWEENY TOD
HUBBIE HAS WORK AT LAST
THE SHIP SAILED ON FRIDAY
HIT THE PIPE
DAWN
TO THE GUILLOTINE
LEGEND OF THE GAP OF DUNLOE
PENDENNIS McGUIRE
THE DEAD RABBIT RIOT A.D. 1857 AND OTHER POEMS
THE DEAD RABBIT RIOT A.D. 1857
WILLIAM THE BUTCHER
HASH
MEMORY OF CHILDHOOD DAYS
DANGLING GUYS
REVERIE OF THE CATSKILLS
A PASTORAL
THE HORSE THIEF
THE PANAMA CANAL
MUTINY OF THE "SOMERS."
POOR LITTLE CLYTIE
THE APE CHASE
THE LOBSTER'S GIZZARD AND OTHER POEMS
THE LOBSTER'S GIZZARD
WHERE IS THE JAIL?
WATER ON THE BRAIN
THE WOMAN WITHOUT ANY EARS
THE ELM OF NAX (A REVELATION)
NOTIONAL NIMROD
THE WEEK'S WASH
THE PINK TEA
THE ROUND-SHOULDERED LICKER
GUY BARNABAS BONE
THE CORNER OF MY THUMB
THE LATTER DAY SAINT
RETROSPECT
THE MELANCHOLY YAK AND OTHER POEMS
PRELUDE TO MELANCHOLY YAK
THE MELANCHOLY YAK
THE STINGING BEE
THE SMILING JUDAS
SABOTAGE
"BERI-BERI"
NEVER GOT THE TOP
NEMESIS
THE SECOND STORY MAN
TEA LEAVES
THE CHIMNEY CORNER
THE NOBLE MATRON
THE LITTLE CHRISTIAN
MARY WENT IN ALONE
GLANDERS
THE CHICKEN
THE BLUE DRAGOON
THE JACK SCRAMBLED GOOSE
NOT A HERO
FRESH BUGS AND OTHER POEMS
TEN WICKED MEN
NEVER LOST A SPANGLE
THE COOTIE
THE EVIL TAXIDERMIST
THE RED-HOT STOVE
THE DAY I LOST MY CHIN
FATHER AND SON (A LULLABY)
JACK THE DROMEDARY
THE TEACHER
THE GIRL WITH THE BLISTERED HEEL
THE TOWER WITHOUT ANY OWL (A SONNET)
THE WINDLASS WINDER
THE JOY RIDE
KITTY CLOVER
THE HOP HEWER (A BALLAD)
THE BASTINADO
THE GLYPTODON
REFLECTIONS
EPILOGUE
EPITAPH TO THOSE PUBLISHERS
THE EXTRA KIDNEY
THE AMBIDEXTROUS MONKEY
THE ANTEDILUVIAN SKUNK
LOCKJAW
THE BLATHERSKITE
STACKFREED
WIDDLES AND WADDLES
WHERE IS JIM?
HIS SHOES ARE GOOD
SPRINGTIME IN RUSSIA
NEAR THE PUMP
THE HAPLESS BENJAMIN
FIDDLERS' GREEN
THE IRISH ANACONDA
