Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Christopher Morley
Author: Christopher Morley
Editor: David Widger
Release date: May 26, 2019 [eBook #59614]
Most recently updated: January 25, 2021
Language: English
Credits: Produced by David Widger
I. | MYSTERY OF THE UNEXPECTED JULEP |
II. | THE HOUSE ON CARAWAY STREET |
III. | INCIDENT OF THE GOOSEBERRY BOMBS |
IV. | THE GREAT WAR BEGINS |
V. | THE TREACHERY OF MISS CHUFF |
VI. | DEPARTED SPIRITS |
VII. | THE DECANTERBURY PILGRIMS |
VIII. | WITH BENEFIT OF CLERGY |
IX. | THE ELECTION |
X. | E PLURIBUS UNUM! |
XI. | IT'S A LONG WORM THAT HAS NO TURNING |
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ON FILLING AN INK_WELL |
OLD THOUGHTS FOR CHRISTMAS |
CHRISTMAS CARDS |
ON UNANSWERING LETTERS |
A LETTER TO FATHER TIME |
WHAT MEN LIVE BY |
THE UNNATURAL NATURALIST |
SITTING IN THE BARBER'S CHAIR |
BROWN EYES AND EQUINOXES |
163 INNOCENT OLD MEN |
A TRAGIC SMELL IN MARATHON |
BULLIED BY THE BIRDS |
A MESSAGE FOR BOONVILLE |
MAKING MARATHON SAFE FOR THE URCHIN |
THE SMELL OF SMELLS |
A JAPANESE BACHELOR |
TWO DAYS WE CELEBRATE |
THE URCHIN AT THE ZOO |
FELLOW CRAFTSMEN |
THE KEY RING |
"OWD BOB" |
THE APPLE THAT NO ONE ATE |
AS TO RUMORS |
OUR MOTHERS |
GREETING TO AMERICAN ANGLERS |
MRS. IZAAK WALTON WRITES A LETTER TO HER MOTHER |
TRUTH |
THE TRAGEDY OF WASHINGTON SQUARE |
IF MR. WILSON WERE THE WEATHER MAN |
SYNTAX FOR CYNICS |
THE TRUTH AT LAST |
FIXED IDEAS |
TRIALS OF A PRESIDENT TRAVELING ABROAD |
DIARY OF A PUBLISHER'S OFFICE BOY |
THE DOG'S COMMANDMENTS |
THE VALUE OF CRITICISM |
A MARRIAGE SERVICE FOR COMMUTERS |
THE SUNNY SIDE OF GRUB STREET |
BURIAL SERVICE FOR A NEWSPAPER JOKE |
ADVICE TO THOSE VISITING A BABY |
ABOU BEN WOODROW |
MY MAGNIFICENT SYSTEM |
I. IN PRAISE OF BOOBS |
II. SIMPLIFICATION |
TO AN UNKNOWN DAMSEL |
THOUGHTS ON SETTING AN ALARM CLOCK |
SONGS IN A SHOWER BATH |
ON DEDICATING A NEW TEAPOT |
THE UNFORGIVABLE SYNTAX |
VISITING POETS |
A GOOD HOME IN THE SUBURBS |
WALT WHITMAN MINIATURES |
ON DOORS |
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The Perfect Reader | 1 |
The Autogenesis of a Poet | 5 |
The Old Reliable | 19 |
In Memoriam, Francis Barton Gummere | 23 |
Adventures at Lunch Time | 30 |
Secret Transactions of the Three Hours for Lunch Club | 36 |
Initiation | 42 |
Creed of the Three Hours for Lunch Club | 47 |
A Preface to the Profession of Journalism | 51 |
Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman | 57 |
McSorley's | 63 |
A Portrait | 69 |
Going to Philadelphia | 73 |
Our Tricolour Tie | 86 |
The Club of Abandoned Husbands | 95 |
West Broadway | 100 |
The Rudeness of Poets | 106 |
1100 Words | 110 |
Some Inns | 115 |
The Club in Hoboken | 124 |
The Club at Its Worst | 129 |
A Suburban Sentimentalist | 133 |
Gissing | 138 |
A Dialogue | 143 |
At the Gasthof zum Ochsen | 147 |
Mr. Conrad's New Preface | 151 |
The Little House | 155 |
Tadpoles | 158 |
Magic in Salamis | 162 |
Consider the Commuter | 167 |
The Permanence of Poetry | 178 |
Books of the Sea | 182 |
Fallacious Meditations on Criticism | 192 |
Letting Out the Furnace | 202 |
By the Fireplace | 206 |
A City Note-Book | 210 |
Thoughts in the Subway | 229 |
Dempsey vs. Carpentier | 234 |
A Letter to a Sea Captain | 239 |
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Preface | vii | ||
On Making Friends | 3 | ||
Thoughts on Cider | 10 | ||
One-Night Stands | 18 | ||
The Owl Train | 25 | ||
Safety Pins | 29 | ||
Confessions of a “Colyumist” | 34 | ||
Moving | 42 | ||
Surf Fishing | 48 | ||
“Idolatry” | 52 | ||
The First Commencement Address | 60 | ||
The Downfall of George Snipe | 63 | ||
Meditations of a Bookseller | 66 | ||
If Buying a Meal Were Like Buying a House | 71 | ||
Adventures in High Finance | 74 | ||
On Visiting Bookshops | 78 | ||
A Discovery | 83 | ||
Silas Orrin Howes | 91 | ||
Joyce Kilmer | 97 | ||
Tales of Two Cities | 109 | ||
I. | Philadelphia: | ||
An Early Train | |||
Ridge Avenue | |||
The University and the Urchin | |||
Pine Street | |||
Pershing in Philadelphia | |||
Fall Fever | |||
Two Days Before Christmas | |||
In West Philadelphia | |||
Horace Traubel | |||
II. | New York: | 163 | |
The Anatomy of Manhattan | |||
Vesey Street | |||
Brooklyn Bridge | |||
Three Hours for Lunch | |||
Passage from Some Memoirs | |||
First Lessons in Clowning | |||
House Hunting | |||
Long Island Revisited | |||
On Being in a Hurry | |||
Confessions of a Human Globule | |||
Notes on a Fifth Avenue Bus | |||
Sunday Morning | |||
Venison Pasty | |||
Grand Avenue, Brooklyn | |||
On Waiting for the Curtain to Go Up | 236 | ||
Musings of John Mistletoe | 240 | ||
The World's Most Famous Oration | 242 | ||
On Laziness | 244 | ||
Teaching the Prince to Take Notes | 249 | ||
A City Notebook | 253 | ||
On Going to Bed | 270 |
SONGS FOR A LITTLE HOUSE |
BAYBERRY
CANDLES SECRET LAUGHTER A CHARM FOR OUR NEW FIREPLACE SIX WEEKS OLD THE YOUNG MOTHER PETER PAN THE 5:42 READING ALOUD THE MOON-SHEEP MAR QUONG, CHINESE LAUNDRYMAN THE MILKMAN IN HONOUR OF TAFFY TOPAZ THE CEDAR CHEST O PRAISE ME NOT THE COUNTRY ANIMAL CRACKERS THE WAKEFUL HUSBAND LIGHT VERSE FULL MOON MY WIFE WASHING THE DISHES THE FURNACE THE CHURCH OF UNBENT KNEES THE NEW ALTMAN BUILDING THE MADONNA OF THE CURB MY PIPE TO A GRANDMOTHER |
A HANDFUL OF SONNETS |
I II PEDOMETER ARS DURA O. HENRY—APOTHECARY FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS'S SONNET (1816) TWO O'CLOCK THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER THE WEDDED LOVER TO YOU, REMEMBERING THE PAST THE LAST SONNET |
THE WAR |
IRONY TO A FRENCH BABY AFTER HEARING GERMAN MUSIC IN MEMORY OF THE AMERICAN AVIATORS KILLED IN FRANCE THE FLAGS ON FIFTH AVENUE "THEY" BALLAD OF FRENCH RIVERS PEASANT AND KING TILL TWISTON WENT TO RUDYARD KIPLING TO A U-BOAT KITCHENER MARCH 1915 DEAD SHIPS ENGLAND, JULY 1913 (TO RUPERT BROOKE) TO THE OXFORD MEN IN THE WAR FOR THE PRESENT TIME AMERICA, 1917 ON VIMY RIDGE |
HAY FEVER, AND OTHER LITERARY POLLEN |
HAY
FEVER, IF RUDYARD KIPLING
HAD IT HAY FEVER, IF AMY LOWELL HAD IT HAY FEVER, IF HILAIRE BELLOC HAD IT HAY FEVER, IF EDGAR LEE MASTERS HAD IT HYMN TO THE DAIRYMAIDS ON BEACON STREET ON FIRST LOOKING INTO A SUBWAY EXCAVATION BALLAD OF NEW AMSTERDAM CASUALTY AT THE WOMEN'S CLUBS ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY COAL-BIN MOONS WE SAW AT SEVENTEEN AT THE DOG SHOW THE OLD SWIMMER TO ALL MY FRIENDS A GRUB STREET RECESSIONAL |
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TO THE LITTLE HOUSE | 19 |
A GRACE BEFORE WRITING | 20 |
DEDICATION FOR A FIREPLACE | 21 |
TAKING TITLE | 22 |
THE SECRET | 25 |
ONLY A MATTER OF TIME | 26 |
AT THE MERMAID CAFETERIA | 28 |
OUR HOUSE | 29 |
ON NAMING A HOUSE | 31 |
A HALLOWE'EN MEMORY | 32 |
REFUSING YOU IMMORTALITY | 35 |
BAYBERRY CANDLES | 36 |
SECRET LAUGHTER | 37 |
SIX WEEKS OLD | 38 |
A CHARM | 41 |
MY PIPE | 42 |
THE 5:42 | 44 |
PETER PAN | 48 |
IN HONOR OF TAFFY TOPAZ | 49 |
THE CEDAR CHEST | 50 |
READING ALOUD | 51 |
ANIMAL CRACKERS | 52 |
THE MILKMAN | 55 |
LIGHT VERSE | 56 |
THE FURNACE | 57 |
WASHING THE DISHES | 58 |
THE CHURCH OF UNBENT KNEES | 61 |
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY COAL-BIN | 62 |
THE OLD SWIMMER | 66 |
THE MOON-SHEEP | 70 |
SMELLS | 71 |
SMELLS (JUNIOR) | 72 |
MAR QUONG, CHINESE LAUNDRYMAN | 75 |
THE FAT LITTLE PURSE | 76 |
THE REFLECTION | 80 |
THE BALLOON PEDDLER | 82 |
LINES FOR AN ECCENTRIC'S BOOK PLATE | 86 |
TO A POST-OFFICE INKWELL | 89 |
THE CRIB | 90 |
THE POET | 94 |
TO A DISCARDED MIRROR | 97 |
TO A CHILD | 98 |
TO A VERY YOUNG GENTLEMAN | 100 |
TO AN OLD-FASHIONED POET | 104 |
BURNING LEAVES IN SPRING | 105 |
BURNING LEAVES, NOVEMBER | 106 |
A VALENTINE GAME | 107 |
FOR A BIRTHDAY | 108 |
KEATS | 111 |
TO H. F. M., A SONNET IN SUNLIGHT | 113 |
QUICKENING | 114 |
AT A WINDOW SILL | 115 |
THE RIVER OF LIGHT | 116 |
OF HER GLORIOUS MADNESS | 118 |
IN AN AUCTION ROOM | 119 |
EPITAPH FOR A POET WHO WROTE NO POETRY | 120 |
SONNET BY A GEOMETER | 121 |
TO A VAUDEVILLE TERRIER | 122 |
TO AN OLD FRIEND | 125 |
TO A BURLESQUE SOUBRETTE | 126 |
THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK | 129 |
STREETS | 130 |
TO THE ONLY BEGETTER | 131 |
PEDOMETER | 133 |
HOSTAGES | 134 |
ARS DURA | 137 |
O. HENRY—APOTHECARY | 138 |
FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS'S SONNET | 139 |
TWO O'CLOCK | 140 |
THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER | 141 |
THE WEDDED LOVER | 142 |
TO YOU, REMEMBERING THE PAST | 143 |
CHARLES AND MARY | 144 |
TO A GRANDMOTHER | 145 |
DIARISTS | 146 |
THE LAST SONNET | 147 |
THE SAVAGE | 148 |
ST. PAUL'S AND WOOLWORTH | 149 |
ADVICE TO A CITY | 150 |
THE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY | 151 |
GREEN ESCAPE | 153 |
VESPER SONG FOR COMMUTERS | 157 |
THE ICE WAGON | 158 |
AT A MOVIE THEATRE | 161 |
SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE | 163 |
THE MAN WITH THE HOE (PRESS) | 167 |
DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE GOD? | 168 |
RAPID TRANSIT | 170 |
CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW | 171 |
TO HIS BROWN-EYED MISTRESS | 172 |
PEACE | 173 |
SONG, IN DEPRECATION OF PULCHRITUDE | 175 |
MOUNTED POLICE | 176 |
TO HIS MISTRESS, DEPLORING THAT HE IS NOT AN ELIZABETHAN GALAXY | 179 |
THE INTRUDER | 181 |
TIT FOR TAT | 182 |
SONG FOR A LITTLE HOUSE | 185 |
THE PLUMPUPPETS | 186 |
DANDY DANDELION | 190 |
THE HIGH CHAIR | 192 |
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT | 193 |
AUTUMN COLORS | 197 |
THE LAST CRICKET | 198 |
TO LOUISE | 199 |
CHRISTMAS EVE | 203 |
EPITAPH ON THE PROOFREADER OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA | 204 |
THE MUSIC BOX | 205 |
TO LUATH | 209 |
THOUGHTS ON REACHING LAND | 212 |
A SYMPOSIUM | 214 |
TO A TELEPHONE OPERATOR WHO HAS A BAD COLD | 218 |
NURSERY RHYMES FOR THE TENDER-HEARTED | 219 |
THE TWINS | 227 |
A PRINTER'S MADRIGAL | 228 |
THE POET ON THE HEARTH | 230 |
O PRAISE ME NOT THE COUNTRY | 231 |
A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD | 235 |
THE MADONNA OF THE CURB | 236 |
THE ISLAND | 240 |
SUNDAY NIGHT | 242 |
ENGLAND, JULY, 1913 | 246 |
CASUALTY | 250 |
A GRUB STREET RECESSIONAL | 251 |
PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS FOR A FUNERAL SERVICE | 253 |
This hearth was built for thy delight— | Frontispiece |
And
by a friend's bright gift of wine, I dedicate this house of mine |
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And of all man's felicities— | 33 |
A
little world he feels and sees: His mother's arms, his mother's knees— |
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The 5:42 | 47 |
And
Daddy once said he would like to be me Having cocoa and animals once more for tea! |
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But
heavy feeding complicates The task by soiling many plates |
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How ill avail, on such a frosty night | 65 |
The old swimmer | 69 |
But Katie, the cook, is more splendid than all— | 73 |
Perhaps it's a ragged child crying | 79 |
The Balloon Peddler | 85 |
If
you appreciate it more Than I—why don't return it! |
87 |
And then one night— | 93 |
The
human cadence and the subtle chime Of little laughters— |
95 |
What years of youthful ills and pangs and bumps— | 103 |
A Birthday | 109 |
You must be rigid servant of your art! | 123 |
You
came, and impudent and deuce-may-care Danced where the gutter flamed with footlight fire |
127 |
Hostages | 135 |
My
eyes still pine for the comely line Of an outbound vessel's hull |
155 |
A
man ain't so secretive, never cares What kind of private papers he leaves lay— |
165 |
Mounted Police | 177 |
Courtesy | 183 |
The Plumpuppets | 189 |
...
It's hard to have to tell How unresponsive I have found her |
195 |
...
When you see, this Great First Time, Lit candles on a Christmas Tree! |
201 |
The music box | 207 |
Solugubrious | 217 |
In
the midnight, like yourself, I explore the pantry shelf! |
221 |
The Twins | 227 |
O praise me not the country | 233 |
The wail of sickly children— | 239 |
Ah,
does the butcher—heartless clown— Beget that shadow on her brow? |
245 |
TALES FROM A ROLLTOP DESK |
THE PRIZE PACKAGE |
ADVICE TO TO LOVELORN |
THE CURIOUS CASE OF KENELM DIGBY |
GLORIA AND THE GARDEN OF SWEDEN |
THE COMMUTATION CHOPHOUSE |
THE PERT LITTLE HAT |
URN BURIAL |
THE BATTLE OF MANILA ENVELOPES |
THE CLIMACTERIC |
PUNCH AND JUDY |
REFERRED TO THE AUTHOR |