University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott and the illustrations by John Tenniel
Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)

collapse sectionI. 
I Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  
[All in the golden afternoon]
  
CHRISTMAS-GREETINGS
collapse sectionI. 
Chapter I Down the Rabbit-Hole
  
[“How doth the little crocodile]
collapse sectionV. 
Chapter V Advice from a Caterpillar
  
[“You are old, Father William,” the young man said]
collapse sectionVI. 
Chapter VI Pig and Pepper
  
[“Speak roughly to your little boy]
collapse sectionVII. 
Chapter VII A Mad Tea-Party
  
[‘Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!]
collapse sectionX. 
Chapter X The Lobster-Quadrille
  
[“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail]
  
[“'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare]
  
[“I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye]
  
[“Beautiful Soup, so rich and green]
collapse sectionXII. 
Chapter XII Alice's Evidence
  
[“They told me you had been to her]
collapse sectionII. 
II Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there
  
[Child of the pure unclouded brow]
collapse sectionI. 
Chapter I Looking-Glass House
  
JABBERWOCKY
collapse sectionIV. 
Chapter IV Tweedledum and Tweedledee
  
[“The sun was shining on the sea]
collapse sectionVI. 
Chapter VI Humpty Dumpty
  
[“In spring, when woods are getting green]
collapse sectionVIII. 
Chapter VIII “It's My Own Invention”
  
[“I'll tell thee everything I can]
collapse sectionIX. 
Chapter IX Queen Alice
  
[“To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said]
  
[“‘First, the fish must be caught.’]
  
[A boat, beneath a sunny sky]
collapse sectionIII. 
III Sylvie and Bruno
  
[Is all our Life, then, but a dream]
collapse section 
PREFACE
  
[“Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says]
  
[“Farewell, farewell! but this I tell]
collapse sectionV. 
Chapter V A Beggar's Palace
  
[“From sackcloth couch the Monk arose]
  
[“He thought he saw an Elephant]
collapse sectionVI. 
Chapter VI The Magic Locket
  
[“He thought he saw a Buffalo]
  
[“He thought he saw a Rattlesnake]
collapse sectionVII. 
Chapter VII The Baron's Embassy
  
[“He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk]
collapse sectionVIII. 
Chapter VIII A Ride on a Lion
  
[“He thought he saw a Kangaroo]
  
[“Let craft, ambition, spite]
collapse sectionIX. 
Chapter IX A Jester and a Bear
  
[“He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four]
collapse sectionX. 
Chapter X The Other Professor
  
[There was a Pig, that sat alone]
collapse sectionXI. 
Chapter XI Peter and Paul
  
[‘Peter is poor,’ said noble Paul]
collapse sectionXII. 
Chapter XII A Musical Gardener
  
[“He thought he saw an Albatross]
  
[“He thought he saw a Garden-Door]
collapse sectionXV. 
Chapter XV Bruno's Revenge
  
[“Rise, oh, rise! The daylight dies]
collapse sectionXVII. 
Chapter XVII The Three Badgers
  
[“There be three Badgers on a mossy stone]
collapse sectionXVII. 
Chapter XVIII Queer Street, Number Forty
  
[‘How many miles to Babylon?]
collapse sectionXX. 
Chapter XX Light Come, Light Go
  
[“He steps so lightly to the land]
collapse sectionIV. 
IV Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
  
[Dreams, that elude the Maker's frenzied grasp—]
collapse sectionI. 
Chapter I Bruno's Lessons
  
[“King Fisher courted Lady Bird—]
collapse sectionIII. 
Chapter III Streaks of Dawn
  
[“Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee]
collapse sectionV. 
Chapter V Matilda Jane
  
[“Matilda Jane, you never look]
  
[“There's him, an' yo', an' me]
collapse sectionXIII. 
Chapter XIII What Tottles Meant
  
[“One thousand pounds per annuum]
collapse sectionXVI. 
Chapter XVI Beyond These Voices
  
[‘We doubt not that, for one so true]
collapse sectionXVII. 
Chapter XVII To the Rescue
  
[In stature the Manlet was dwarfish—]
collapse sectionXIX. 
Chapter XIX A Fairy-Duet
  
[“Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping]
collapse sectionXX. 
Chapter XX Gammon and Spinach
  
[“He looked again, and found it was]
collapse sectionXXIII. 
Chapter XXIII The Pig-Tale
  
[Little Birds are dining]
collapse sectionV. 
V Verse
  
INSCRIBED TO A DEAR CHILD: IN MEMORY OF GOLDEN SUMMER HOURS AND WHISPERS OF A SUMMER SEA
  
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
collapse section 
EARLY VERSE
  
MY FAIRY
  
PUNCTUALITY
  
MELODIES
  
BROTHER AND SISTER
  
FACTS
  
RULES AND REGULATIONS
  
HORRORS
  
MISUNDERSTANDINGS
  
AS IT FELL UPON A DAY
  
YE FATTALE CHEYSE
  
LAYS OF SORROW
  
LAYS OF SORROW
  
THE TWO BROTHERS
  
THE LADY OF THE LADLE
  
CORONACH
  
SHE'S ALL MY FANCY PAINTED HIM
  
PHOTOGRAPHY EXTRAORDINARY
  
LAYS OF MYSTERY, IMAGINATION, AND HUMOUR
  
THE MOCK TURTLE'S SONG
  
UPON THE LONELY MOOR
  
MISS JONES
collapse section 
PUZZLES FROM WONDERLAND
 I. 
I
 II. 
II
 III. 
III
 IV. 
IV
 V. 
V
 VI. 
VI
 VII. 
VII
collapse section 
SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLES FROM WONDERLAND
 I. 
I
 II. 
II
 III. 
III
 IV. 
IV
 V. 
V
 VI. 
VI
 VII. 
VII
collapse section 
PROLOGUES TO PLAYS
  
PROLOGUE TO “LA GUIDA DI BRAGIA”
  
PROLOGUE
  
PROLOGUE
collapse section 
PHANTASMAGORIA
  
[PHANTASMAGORIA]
  
ECHOES
  
A SEA DIRGE
  
YE CARPETTE KNYGHTE
  
HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING
  
MELANCHOLETTA
  
A VALENTINE
  
THE THREE VOICES
  
THEME WITH VARIATIONS
  
A GAME OF FIVES
  
POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR
  
SIZE AND TEARS
  
ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWN
  
THE LANG COORTIN'
collapse section 
FOUR RIDDLES
 I. 
I
 II. 
II
 III. 
III
 IV. 
IV
  
FAME'S PENNY-TRUMPET
collapse section 
COLLEGE RHYMES AND NOTES BY AN OXFORD CHIEL
collapse section 
FROM COLLEGE RHYMES
  
ODE TO DAMON
  
THOSE HORRID HURDY-GURDIES!
  
MY FANCY
  
THE MAJESTY OF JUSTICE
collapse section 
FROM NOTES BY AN OXFORD CHIEL
  
THE ELECTIONS TO THE HEBDOMADAL COUNCIL
  
THE DESERTED PARKS
  
EXAMINATION STATUTE
collapse section 
ACROSTICS, INSCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER VERSES
  
ACROSTIC
  
TO THREE PUZZLED LITTLE GIRLS, FROM THE AUTHOR
  
DOUBLE ACROSTIC
  
THREE LITTLE MAIDS
  
PUZZLE
  
THREE CHILDREN
  
TWO THIEVES
collapse section 
TWO ACROSTICS
  
(To Miss Ruth Dymes.)
  
(To Miss Margaret Dymes.)
  
DOUBLE ACROSTIC
  
ACROSTIC
  
ACROSTIC
  
ACROSTIC
  
TO M. A. B.
  
ACROSTIC
  
MADRIGAL
  
LOVE AMONG THE ROSES
collapse section 
TWO POEMS TO RACHEL DANIEL
  
I
  
II FOR “THE GARLAND OF RACHEL” (1881)
  
THE LYCEUM
  
ACROSTIC
  
DREAMLAND
  
TO MY CHILD-FRIEND
  
A RIDDLE
  
A LIMERICK
  
RHYME? AND REASON?
  
A NURSERY DARLING
  
MAGGIE'S VISIT TO OXFORD (June 9th to 13th, 1889)
  
MAGGIE B---
collapse section 
THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS
  
THREE SUNSETS
  
THE PATH OF ROSES
  
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH
  
SOLITUDE
  
BEATRICE
  
STOLEN WATERS
  
THE WILLOW-TREE
  
ONLY A WOMAN'S HAIR
  
THE SAILOR'S WIFE
  
AFTER THREE DAYS
  
FACES IN THE FIRE
  
A LESSON IN LATIN
  
PUCK LOST AND FOUND
collapse sectionVI. 
VI Stories
  
TO MY PUPIL
collapse section 
A TANGLED TALE
  
[One piecee thing that my have got]
  
[The elder and the younger knight]
collapse section 
NOVELTY AND ROMANCEMENT
  
[“When Desolation snatched her tearful prey]
collapse section 
WILHELM VON SCHMITZ
  
[“What though the world be cross and crooky?]
  
[“His barque had perished in the storm]
  
[“My Sukie! He hath bought, yea, Muggle's self]
collapse section 
The LEGEND OF SCOTLAND
  
[Lorenzo dwelt at Heighington]
  
[“Here I bee, and here I byde]
  
[“Yn the Auckland Castell cellar]
collapse sectionVII. 
VII A Miscellany
  
[Five fathom square the Belfry frowns]
  
THE WANDERING BURGESS
  
A BACCHANALIAN ODE
  
[‘Alas! she would not hear my prayer!]
  
[‘Well! so my offer was no go!]
  
[‘Firebrands and daggers! hope hath fled!]

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
next section
787

MISUNDERSTANDINGS

If such a thing had been my thought,
I should have told you so before,
But as I didn't, then you ought
To ask for such a thing no more,
For to teach one who has been taught
Is always thought an awful bore.
Now to commence my argument,
I shall premise an observation,
On which the greatest kings have leant
When striving to subdue a nation,
And e'en the wretch who pays no rent
By it can solve a hard equation.
Its truth is such, the force of reason
Can not avail to shake its power,
Yet e'en the sun in summer season
Doth not dispel so mild a shower
As this, and he who sees it, sees on
Beyond it to a sunny bower—
No more, when ignorance is treason,
Let wisdom's brows be cold and sour.
previous section The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
next section