1952Penguin PoetsJ. M. Cohen selected from the \"last three centuries\", which is the three hundred years prior to this book\'s original publication in 1952 (excepting Skelton) and the poems included are split up into the following groupings: Birds, Beasts and Humans; Unlikely Stories; For Various Occasions; Protests and Expostulations; Whims and Oddities; Rigmaroles and Nonsense; Burlesque and Parody; Street Corner Songs. Specific poems included are: At Elinor Rumming\'s Ale-house by John Skelton; On Otho by Anon; How the First Hielandman was Made by Anon; On a German Tour by Richard Porson; Sir Hudibras, His Passing Worth by Samuel Butler; Hypocrisy by Samuel Butler; The China-Mender by Thomas Hood; Dr. Douglas\'s Marriage with Miss Mainwaring by W. L. Mansel; Cheltenham Waters by Anon; The White Knight tells his Tale by Lewis Carroll; The Old Waiter from Wapping by Walter Parkle; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear; The Pobble who has no Toes by Edward Lear; The Young Lady in White by Edward Lear; The Megalopsychiad by A. D. Godley; On a Tired Housewife by Anon; Hilaire Belloc: Henry King; Matilda by Hilaire Belloc; Lord Lundy by Hilaire Belloc; On Lady Poltagrue, a Public Peril; On His Books; Polka by Edith Sitwell; I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside by Edith Sitwell; Forgive Me, Sire by Norman Cameron; Elegy for Mr. Goodbeare by Sir Osbert Sitwell; What Mrs Southern Liked by Sir Osbert Sitwell; A Caliban by Geoffrey Taylor; Epigram of Straw by Geoffrey Taylor; What\'s the Use? by Ogden Nash; Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T. S. Eliot; Buttons by Walter de La Mare; Archy the Cockroach Says by Don Marquis; The Lesser Lynx by E. V. Rieu; Slug by John Pudney; Horny Hogan by Robert Lowry; The Turtle by Ogden Nash; Samson Agonistes by Ogden Nash. UNLIKELY STORIES: A Carman\'s Account of a Law-Suit by Sir David Lindesay; Epitaph on a Welsh Man by Anon; All\'s Well That Ends Well by Anon; Nullum, Stimulum Ignoris by Anon; Scylla Toothlesse by Anon; The Doctor Prescribes by Anon; etcWhilst the pages are yellowed and there is creasing, all the pages are in tact and attached to the spine.