William Makepeace Thackeray's Poetry, by title

• A Credo

  For the sole edification
  Of this decent congregation,

  39 lines
• A Doe In The City

  Little KITTY LORIMER,
  Fair, and young, and witty,

  41 lines
• A Tragic Story

  There lived a sage in days of yore,
  And he a handsome pigtail wore;

  24 lines, 4 comments
• A Woeful New Ballad Of The Protestant Conspiracy To Take The Pope’s Life

  Come all ye Christian people, unto my tale give ear,
  'Tis about a base consperracy, as quickly shall appear;

  75 lines
• Abd-El-Kader At Toulon Or, The Caged Hawk

  No more, thou lithe and long-winged hawk, of desert-life for thee;
  No more across the sultry sands shalt thou go swooping free:

  49 lines
• Ad Ministram

  Dear Lucy, you know what my wish is, --
  I hate all your Frenchified fuss:

  16 lines
• Ah, Bleak And Barren Was The Moor

  Ah! bleak and barren was the moor,
  Ah! loud and piercing was the storm,

  17 lines
• At the Church-Gate

  Although I enter not,
  Yet round about the spot,

  30 lines
• Atra Cura

  Before I lost my five poor wits,
  I mind me of a Romish clerk,

  19 lines
• Come To The Greenwood Tree

  Come to the greenwood tree,
  Come where the dark woods be,

  17 lines
• Commanders Of The Faithful

  The Pope he is a happy man,
  His Palace is the Vatican,

  19 lines
• Damages, Two Hundred Pounds

  Special Jurymen of England! who admire your country's laws,
  And proclaim a British Jury worthy of the realm's applause;

  68 lines
• Dear Jack

  Dear Jack, this white mug that with Guinness I fill,
  And drink to the health of sweet Nan of the Hill,

  13 lines
• Fairy Days

  Beside the old hall-fire—upon my nurse's knee,
  Of happy fairy days—what tales were told to me!

  37 lines
• Friar’s Song

  Some love the matin-chimes, which tell
  The hour of prayer to sinner:

  25 lines
• From Pocahontas

  Returning from the cruel fight
  How pale and faint appears my knight!

  17 lines
• Jacob Homnium’s Hoss

  One sees in Viteall Yard,
  Vere pleacemen do resort,

  143 lines
• Jolly Jack

  When fierce political debate
  Throughout the isle was storming,

  65 lines
• King Canute

  KING CANUTE was weary hearted; he had reigned for years a score,
  Battling, struggling, pushing, fighting, killing much and robbing m

  95 lines, 2 comments
• Larry O’Toole

  You've all heard of Larry O'Toole,
  Of the beautiful town of Drumgoole;

  22 lines
• Le Grenier

  Je viens revoir l'asile ou ma jeunesse
  De la misere a subi les lecons.

  82 lines
• Le Roi D’Yvetot

  Il etait un roi d'Yvetot,
  Peu connu dans l'histoire;

  102 lines
• Lines On A Late Hospicious Ewent, By A Gebtleman Of The Footguards (Blue)

  I paced upon my beat
  With steady step and slow,

  118 lines
• Lines Upon My Sister’s Portrait

  The castle towers of Bareacres are fair upon the lea,
  Where the cliffs of bonny Diddlesex rise up from out the sea:

  33 lines
• Little Billee

  There were three sailors of Bristol city
  Who took a boat and went to sea.

  43 lines
• Lucy’s Birthday

  Seventeen rosebuds in a ring,
  Thick with sister flowers beset,

  25 lines
• May-Day Ode

  But yesterday a naked sod
  The dandies sneered from Rotten Row,

  153 lines
• Molony’s Lament

  O TIM, did you hear of thim Saxons,
  And read what the peepers report?

  78 lines
• Mr. Molony’s Account Of The Ball

  O will ye choose to hear the news,
  Bedad I cannot pass it o'er:

  81 lines
• Mrs. Katherine’s Lantern

  "Coming from a gloomy court,
  Place of Israelite resort,

  47 lines

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