Through the Looking-Glass / Lewis Carroll

Title: Through the Looking-Glass 

Author: Lewis Carroll

Subjects: Classic; Children; Fiction; Fantasy 

It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror.  In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll

Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland)

Author: Lewis Carroll 

Subject: Fiction; Children; Fantasy

It is a story of young girl, Alice. One day she was following a white rabbit and fell down into a rabbit hole and reached to a wonderland full of fantasy, peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. 

Ye Carpette Knyghte / Lewis Carroll

I have a horse--a ryghte good horse -

Ne doe Y envye those

Who scoure ye playne yn headye course

Tyll soddayne on theyre nose

They lyghte wyth unexpected force

Yt ys--a horse of clothes.

The Walrus And The Carpenter / Lewis Carroll

The sun was shining on the sea,

Shining with all his might:

He did his very best to make

The billows smooth and bright--

And this was odd, because it was

The middle of the night.

The Voice Of The Lobster / Lewis Carroll

"'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare

'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.'

As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose

Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.

When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,

And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:

But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,

His voice has a timid and tremulous sound." 

The Three Voices / Lewis Carroll

The First Voice

He trilled a carol fresh and free,

He laughed aloud for very glee:

There came a breeze from off the sea:

It passed athwart the glooming flat -

It fanned his forehead as he sat -

It lightly bore away his hat,

The Lobster-quadrille / Lewis Carroll

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,

"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.

See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!

They are waiting on the shingle -- will you come and join the dance?

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? 

The Lang Coortin' / Lewis Carroll

The ladye she stood at her lattice high,

Wi' her doggie at her feet;

Thorough the lattice she can spy

The passers in the street,

Tema con Variazioni / Lewis Carroll

I never loved a dear Gazelle -

NOR ANYTHING THAT COST ME MUCH:

HIGH PRICES PROFIT THOSE WHO SELL,

BUT WHY SHOULD I BE FOND OF SUCH?

Size and Tears / Lewis Carroll

When on the sandy shore I sit,

Beside the salt sea-wave,

And fall into a weeping fit

Because I dare not shave -

A little whisper at my ear

Enquires the reason of my fear.

Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur / Lewis Carroll

"How shall I be a poet?

How shall I write in rhyme?

You told me once 'the very wish

Partook of the sublime.'

Then tell me how! Don't put me off

With your 'another time'!"

Phantasmagoria / Lewis Carroll

CANTO I--The Trystyng

One winter night, at half-past nine,

Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,

I had come home, too late to dine,

And supper, with cigars and wine,

Was waiting in the study.

Melancholetta / Lewis Carroll

With saddest music all day long

She soothed her secret sorrow:

At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong

Such cheerful words to borrow.

Dearest, a sweeter, sadder song

I'll sing to thee to-morrow."

Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 

Did gyre and gimble in the wade; 

All mimsy were the borogoves, 

And the mome raths outgrabe. 

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! 

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun 

The frumious Bandersnatch!" 

How Doth The Little Crocodile... / Lewis Carroll

How doth the little crocodile

Improve his shining tail,

And pour the waters of the Nile

On every golden scale! 

How cheerfully he seems to grin

How neatly spreads his claws,

And welcomes little fishes in,

With gently smiling jaws!

Hiawatha's Photographing / Lewis Carroll

From his shoulder Hiawatha

Took the camera of rosewood,

Made of sliding, folding rosewood;

Neatly put it all together.

In its case it lay compactly,

Folded into nearly nothing;

Four Riddles / Lewis Carroll

I

There was an ancient City, stricken down

With a strange frenzy, and for many a day

They paced from morn to eve the crowded town,

And danced the night away.

I asked the cause: the aged man grew sad:

They pointed to a building gray and tall,

And hoarsely answered "Step inside, my lad,

And then you'll see it all."

Fame's Penny-trumpet / Lewis Carroll

[Affectionately dedicated to all "original researchers" who pant

for "endowment."]

Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack,

Ye little men of little souls!

And bid them huddle at your back -

Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!

Echoes / Lewis Carroll

Lady Clara Vere de Vere

Was eight years old, she said:

Every ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden thread.

She took her little porringer:

Of me she shall not win renown:

For the baseness of its nature shall have strength to drag her

down.

Atalanta in Camden-town / Lewis Carroll

Ay, 'twas here, on this spot,

In that summer of yore,

Atalanta did not

Vote my presence a bore,

Nor reply to my tenderest talk "She had

heard all that nonsense before."