The Spook Ballads. William Theodore Parkes

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4064066156404

Table of Contents

       BOHEMIANS, HAIL!

       THE GHOSTS OF HAMPTON COURT

       YE FILIAL SACRAFICE

       MADAM STIFFIN'S GHOST

       SONNET ON PARTING

       HIS BOUQUET

       THE GIRL OF CASTLEBAR

       THE GERMAN BAND

       OUT OF PLUMB.

       A WARD IN THE CHANCERIE

       THE FAIRY QUEEN

       THE DEVIL IN RICHMOND PARK

       SAVED!

       A MOST REMARKABLE CASE

       A TOUR TO SVITSERLAND

       JOY! ON SEEING A FLYING SPRING.

       THE MATE OF THE MARY ANNE

       AN UMBRELLA CASE.

       THE SPOOK OF ROTTEN ROW

       THE MAGIC SPECS

       YE CURIOUS TAYLE OF YE UNCIVIL FIGHT OF YE CIVIL WARRE

       LEATHER VERSUS LAW

       HEADS AND TAILS

       THE COLONEL AND THE COOK

       THE SPIRIT THAT HELD HIM DOWN

       HIS FUTURE STATE.

       A FIGHT IN THE PHŒNIX PARK

       THE ABDICATED CROWN.

       TEARS-IN-LAW

       HE FOLLOWED THE FOX

       THE HONEST YOUNG CASHIER

       THE ROAD TO LONDON

       ANTEDILUVIAN PAT O'TOOLE AND ALL HIS FLEET OF SAIL

       SONNET ON SHARES.

       THE LUCKY SIXPENCE

       A WALL FLOWER SONNET.

       PARADOXICAL WORDS

       A CANTABILE ON MUSIC, ART, AND LAW.

       WOMAN'S TEARS.

       HERADIC FRUITS OF A FAMILY TREE

       THE POLIS AND THE PRINCESS GRANAUILLE

       A HORROR OF LONDON TOWN.

       A CONFIDENTIAL SONNET

       A TRAM CAR GHOST.

       MARGATE SANDS.

       JOHN MC KUNE

       I'LL GO FOR A SOJER.

       ODE HERE!

       THE SMUGGLER'S FATE

       THE LATE FITZ-BINKS.

       A FUGITIVE KISS.

       THE BEDROOM CURSE AND THE MURDERED COCKATOO

       A GUN SOLO.

       THE SEMI-GRAND