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| The Played-Out Humorist | W. S. Gilbert | 25 | |
| The Practical Joker | W. S. Gilbert | 26 | |
| To Phœbe | W. S. Gilbert | 28 | |
| Malbrouck | Father Prout | 29 | |
| Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream | Oliver Herford | 30 | |
| From a Full Heart | A. A. Milne | 31 | |
| The Ultimate Joy | Unknown | 32 | |
| Old Fashioned Fun | W. M. Thackeray | 33 | |
| When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas | W. M. Thackeray | 34 | |
| When the Frost is on the Punkin | James Whitcomb Riley | 34 | |
| Two Men | Edwin Arlington Robinson | 35 | |
| A Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 36 | |
| The Height of the Ridiculous | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 38 | |
| Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe | H. C. Bunner | 40 | |
| A Rondelay | Peter A. Motteux | 41 | |
| Winter Dusk | R. K. Munkittrick | 42 | |
| Comic Miseries | John G. Saxe | 42 | |
| Early Rising | John G. Saxe | 44 | |
| To the Pliocene Skull | Bret Harte | 46 | |
| Ode to Work in Springtime | Thomas R. Ybarra | 47 | |
| Old Stuff | Bert Leston Taylor | 48 | |
| To Minerva | Thomas Hood | 49 | |
| The Legend of Heinz Von Stein | Charles Godfrey Leland | 49 | |
| The Truth About Horace | Eugene Field | 50 | |
| Propinquity Needed | Charles Battell Loomis | 51 | |
| In the Catacombs | Harlan Hoge Ballard | 52 | |
| Our Native Birds | Nathan Haskell Dole | 53 | |
| The Prayer of Cyrus Brown | Sam Walter Foss | 54 | |
| Erring in Company | Franklin P. Adams | 55 | |
| Cupid | William Blake | 56 | |
| If We Didn't Have to Eat | Nixon Waterman | 57 | |
| To My Empty Purse | Geoffrey Chaucer | 58 | |
| The Birth of Saint Patrick | Samuel Lover | 58 | |
| Her Little Feet | William Ernest Henley |
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