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A Satire Anthology

A Satire Anthology

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A SATIRE ANTHOLOGY


SATIRE should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen.
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU.

Title page
A
Satire
Anthology



Collected by
Carolyn Wells




New York
Charles Scribner’s Sons

1905


TO
MINNIE HARPER PILLING

NOTE

Acknowledgment is hereby gratefully made to the publishers of the various poems included in this compilation.

Those by Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John G. Saxe, Edward Rowland Sill, John Hay, Bayard Taylor and Edith Thomas are published by permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

The poems by Anthony Deane and Owen Seaman are used by arrangement with John Lane.

Through the courtesy of Small, Maynard & Co., are included poems by Bliss Carman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson-Gilman, Stephen Crane, and Frederic Ridgely Torrence.

Poems by Sam Walter Foss are published by permission of Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Co.

The Century Co. are the publishers of poems by Richard Watson Gilder and Mary Mapes Dodge.

Frederich A. Stokes Company give permission for poems by Gelett Burgess and Stephen Crane.

“The Buntling Ball,” by Edgar Fawcett is published by permission of Funk and Wagnalls Company; “Hoch der Kaiser” by Rodney Blake, by the courtesy of the New Amsterdam Book Co. The poems by James Jeffrey Roche by permission of E. H. Bacon & Co.; and “The Font in the Forest” by Herman Knickerbocker Vielé, by permission of Brentano’s.

“The Evolution of a Name,” by Charles Battell Loomis, is quoted from “Just Rhymes,” Copyright, 1899, by R. H. Russell.

“He and She,” by Eugene Fitch Ware, is published by permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons.


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CONTENTS

 
 
Page
Chorus of Women
Aristophanes
3
A Would-Be Literary Bore
Horace
4
The Wish for Length of Life
Juvenal
6
The Ass’s Legacy
Ruteboeuf
7
A Ballade of Old-Time Ladies (Translated by John Payne).
François Villon
11
A Carman’s Account of a Lawsuit
Sir David Lyndsay
12
The Soul’s Errand
Sir Walter Raleigh
13
Of a Certain Man
Sir John Harrington
16
A Precise Tailor
Sir John Harrington
16
The Will
John Donne
18
From “King Henry IV”
William Shakespeare
20
From “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
William Shakespeare
21
From “As You Like It”
William Shakespeare
22
Horace Concocting An Ode
Thomas Dekker

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