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The poetical works of John Godfrey Saxe
Household Edition : with illustrations
Saxe, John Godfrey (1816-1887)
POEMS.
LOVE POEMS.
LEISURE-DAY RHYMES.
FAIRY TALES, LEGENDS, AND APOLOGUES.
FATHER PUMPKIN; OR, ALWAYS IN LUCK.
THE KING AND THE COTTAGER.
THE YOUTH AND THE NORTH WIND.
THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT.
THE TREASURE OF GOLD.
THE NOBLEMAN, THE FISHERMAN, AND THE PORTER.
THE DERVIS AND THE KING.
THE MONARCH AND THE MARQUIS.
THE CALIPH AND THE CRIPPLE.
THE UGLY AUNT.
THE THREE GIFTS.
THE WIFE'S REVENGE.
THE DERVIS AND HIS ENEMIES.
RAMPSINITUS AND THE ROBBERS.
POOR TARTAR.
THE FOUR MISFORTUNES.
THE WANDERING JEW.
THE THREE GOOD DAYS.
THE STORY OF ECHO.
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE.
THE ORIGIN OF WINE.
THE PARROT OF NEVERS.
KING SOLOMON AND THE BEES.
THE PIOUS BRAHMIN AND HIS NEIGHBORS.
THE ROMANCE OF NICK VAN STANN.
THE FISHERMAN AND THE FLOUNDER.
HOW THE RAVEN BECAME BLACK.
DEATH AND CUPID.
LOVE AND LUCRE.
WISDOM AND CUNNING.
THE SULTAN AND THE OWLS.
THE PIN AND THE NEEDLE.
BEN-AMMI AND THE FAIRIES.
THE DISCONTENTED WATER-CARRIER.
THE MILLER AND HIS ADVISERS.
MURILLO AND HIS SLAVE.
HASSAN AND THE ANGEL.
FABLES AND FAIRY TALES.
FABLES AND LEGENDS OF MANY COUNTRIES.
SATIRES.
EXCERPTS FROM OCCASIONAL POEMS.
TRANSLATIONS AND PARAPHRASES.
TRAVESTIES.
SONNETS.
EPIGRAMS.
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A DILEMMA.
“
Whenever
I marry,” says masculine Ann,
“I must really insist upon wedding a
man
!”
But what if the man (for men are but human)
Should be equally nice about wedding a
woman
?
The poetical works of John Godfrey Saxe