Spook Ballads
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133
1895
English
- Bohemians, Hail
- The Ghosts of Hampton Court
- Ye Filial Sacrafice
- Madame 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 Svitzerland
- 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
- Leather Versus Law
- Heads and Tails
- The Colonel and the Cook
- The Spirit that held him down
- His Future State
- A Fight in the Phoenix Park
- An Abdicated Crown
- Tears in Law
- He Followed the Fox
- The Honest Young Cashier
- The Road to London
- Antediluvian Pat O'Toole
- The Lucky Sixpence
- A Wallflower Sonnet
- Paradoxical Words
- A Cantible on Music, Art and Law
- Woman's Tears
- Heraldic Fruits
- The Polis and the Princess Granauille
- A Horror of London Town
- A Confidential Sonnet
- A Tram Car Ghost
- Margate Sands
- John McKune
- I'll go for a Sojer
- Ode Here!
- The Smuggler's Fate
- The Late Fitz-Binks
- A Fugitive Kiss
- The Bedroom Curse
- A Gun Solo
- The Semi-Grand Piano
- Canticrank
- An Ill Wind Blew him Good
- A Kleptomaniac's Doom
- Caught in the Breach
- The Ghost of Hiram Smike
- Why did ye die?
- A Pretty Little Land I Know
- How they Enlist
- The Kindergarten Way
This is a volume of ghost stories in verse by William Theodore Parkes. The poems in this volume are often humorous, and written in a parody of ye olde style of poetry.
"Dealing largely with ghosts and legends embracing a dash of diablerie such as would have been dear to the heart of Ingoldsby. There is a rugged force in 'The Girl of Castlebar' that will always make it tell in recitation; and even greater success in this direction has attended 'The Fairy Queen,' a story unveiling the seamy side, with quaint humour and stern realism. It is specially worthy of note that Mr. Parkes's skill in versification has received the warmest acknowledgment from those best qualified to appreciate the bright local coloring as well as the blending of fancy and fun."— Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. - Summary by Carolin
"Dealing largely with ghosts and legends embracing a dash of diablerie such as would have been dear to the heart of Ingoldsby. There is a rugged force in 'The Girl of Castlebar' that will always make it tell in recitation; and even greater success in this direction has attended 'The Fairy Queen,' a story unveiling the seamy side, with quaint humour and stern realism. It is specially worthy of note that Mr. Parkes's skill in versification has received the warmest acknowledgment from those best qualified to appreciate the bright local coloring as well as the blending of fancy and fun."— Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. - Summary by Carolin
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