PARODIES OF THE WORKS OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS, COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY WALTER HAMILTON, _Fellow of the Royal Geographical, and Royal Historical Societies; Author of “A History of National Patriotic Songs,” “A Memoir of George Cruikshank,” “The Poets Laureate of England,” “The Æsthetic Movement in England,” etc._ “I have here only made a Nosegay of culled Flowers, and have brought little more of my own than the band which ties them.” VOLUME V. CONTAINING PARODIES OF Thomas Gray’s “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” AND OTHER POEMS. WILLIAM COWPER. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. S. T. COLERIDGE. M. G. LEWIS. LEIGH HUNT. LORD MACAULAY. W. M. PRAED. W. M. THACKERAY. LORD LYTTON. P. B. Shelley. Mrs. Browning. The Ingoldsby Legends. J. ADDISON. W. COLLINS. S. ROGERS. E. WALLER. NATIONAL SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES. MODERN AMERICAN POETS. SONGS OF THE CIVIL WAR. REEVES & TURNER, 196, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. 1888. INTRODUCTION. * * * * * VOLUME V. [Illustration:T]he completion of the Fifth Volume of this collection of Parodies affords me an opportunity of acknowledging many acts of courtesy shown by gentlemen who take an interest in the subject. They have appreciated the importance of making the collection complete, and reliable as a _book of reference_ on Parody and Burlesque, and by the information they have sent, have assisted me to carry out my design so far as it has gone. In some few cases the difficulty of finding the authors has prevented me from obtaining their permission to insert their poems, but in every instance due acknowledgment has been made. No trouble has been spared to obtain every parody worth quoting, to trace every poem to its original source, and to give the Authors’ names, wherever they could be ascertained. Without the assistance of the Authors themselves it would have been impossible to collect and verify such a mass of information, and my thanks are especially due to the following gentlemen, either for permission to reprint their parodies, or for other literary assistance in the compilation of the work: E. B. Anstee, Cuthbert Bede, (Rev. E. Bradley,) F. W. Crawford, T. F. Dillon-Croker, J. G. Dalton (of Boston, U.S.) F. B. Doveton, James Gordon, F.S.A., J. H. Ingram, J. Brodie-Innes, John Lane, Rev. H. C. Leonard, J. M. Lowry, A. W. Mackenzie, F. B. Perkins (of San Francisco, U.S.) Walter Parke, Edward Simpson, G. R. Sims, T. H. Smith, (of Chicago, U.S.) Edward Walford, M.A., C. H. Waring, and Edmund H. Yates. Not only has their friendly aid cheered my labors, but it has encouraged me to hope for equally valuable assistance during the publication of the Sixth Volume, which will deal principally with the works of living poets, or with the poems of those who have only recently passed away. WALTER HAMILTON, 57, Gauden Road, Clapham, S.W. _December_, 1888.