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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

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