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Lewis Carroll's Poetry, by title

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  • "A boat beneath a sunny sky"
    A boat  beneath a sunny sky,
    Lingering onward dreamily
    26 lines, 5 comments
  • A Game Of Fives
    Five little girls of Five, Four, Three, Two, One:
    Rolling on the hearthrug, full of tricks and fun.
    26 lines, 2 comments
  • A Nursery Darling
    From lips that lovingly repeat
    Again, again, the message sweet!
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • A Sea Dirge
    There is an insect that people avoid
    (Whence is derived the verb 'to flee').
    48 lines, 1 comment
  • A Strange Wild Song
    He thought he saw an Elephant,
    That practised on a fife:
    61 lines, 1 comment
  • A Valentine
    He spends the time in writing lays,
    And posts them to her.
    42 lines, 1 comment
  • Acrostic
    Daily work and pastime daily
    In their order taking gaily
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Alice And The White Knight
    Alice was walking beside the White Knight in Looking Glass Land.
    "You are sad." the Knight said in an anxious tone: "let me sing you
    125 lines
  • All In The Golden Afternoon
    All in the golden afternoon
    Full leisurely we glide;
    42 lines
  • Another Acrostic ( In the style of Father William )
    "Are you deaf, Father William!" the young man said,
    "Did you hear what I told you just now?
    13 lines, 3 comments
  • Atalanta In Camden -Town
    And her heart, as I thought,
    Was alive to my passion;
    48 lines
  • Bessie's Song To Her Doll
    Matilda Jane, you never look
    At any toy or picture-book.
    18 lines
  • Brother And Sister
    "SISTER, sister, go to bed!
    Go and rest your weary head."
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • Dedication
    Inscribed to a Dear Child:
    In Memory of Golden Summer Hours
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • Dreamland
    When midnight mists are creeping,
    And all the land is sleeping,
    0 lines, 4 comments
  • Echoes
    Lady Clara Vere de Vere
    Was eight years old, she said:
    15 lines
  • Fame's Penny-Trumpet
    Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack,
    Ye little men of little souls!
    48 lines
  • Father William
      "You are old, father William," the young man said,
        "And your hair has become very white;
    45 lines, 6 comments
  • Fit The Eighth - The Vanishing
    They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
    They pursued it with forks and hope;
    42 lines, 2 comments
  • Fit The Fifth - The Beavers Lesson
    They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
    They pursued it with forks and hope;
    146 lines, 2 comments
  • Fit The First: The Landing
    The Landing
    "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
    108 lines, 4 comments
  • Fit The Fourth - The Hunting
    The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
    "If only you'd spoken before!
    87 lines, 2 comments
  • Fit The Second - The Bellman's Speech
    The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies—
    Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!
    102 lines, 2 comments
  • Fit The Seventh - The Banker's Fate
    They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
    They pursued it with forks and hope;
    47 lines, 2 comments
  • Fit The Sixth - The Barrister's Dream
    They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
    They pursued it with forks and hope;
    87 lines, 2 comments
  • Fit The Third - The Baker's Tale
    They roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice—
    They roused him with mustard and cress—
    67 lines, 2 comments
  • Four Riddles
    There was an ancient City, stricken down
    With a strange frenzy, and for many a day
    168 lines
  • Hiawatha's Photographing
    From his shoulder Hiawatha
    Took the camera of rosewood,
    157 lines
  • Hunting Of The Snark: Preface
    PREFACE
      If—-and the thing is wildly possible—-t he charge of writing
    69 lines
  • I'll Tell Thee Everything I Can
    I'll tell thee everything I can;
    There's little to relate,
    90 lines
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