Domestic Asides; or Truth in Parenthesis 55 Black, White, and Brown 57 Epigrams-- Composed on Reading a Diary lately published 64 The Last Wish 65 The Devil’s Album 65 The Schoolmaster Abroad 66 The Lost Heir 74 Sketches on the Road-- The Observer 81 The Contrast 82 John Day; a pathetic ballad 85 The Parish Revolution 89 The Furlough; an Irish anecdote 101 Number One; versified from the prose of a Young Lady 104 The Drowning Ducks 107 An Assent to the Summut of Mount Blank 111 Sally Simpkin’s Lament; or John Jones’s Kit-Cat-Astrophe 115 A Horse-Dealer 117 The Fall 120 The Illuminati 122 Sonnet 130 The Steam Service 131 A Lay of Real Life 136 A Valentine. The Weather--To P. Murphy, Esq., M.N.S. 137 The Elland Meeting 139 Poem,--from the Polish 150 A Step-father 154 Conveyancing 157 A Letter from a Settler for Life in Van Diemen’s Land 160 Sonnet 164 A Serio-Comic Reminiscence 165 Epicurean Reminiscences of a Sentimentalist 169 Saint Mark’s Eve--A tale of the olden time 172 I’m not a Single Man 180 A Greenwich Pensioner 184 The Burning of the Love Letter 186 Sketches on the Road 187 The Apparition 191 The Discovery 193 Little O’P.--An African Fact 197 The Debutante 199 The Angler’s Farewell 206 Popping the Question 208