doggerels

• “So we wrote doggerels and rhymes and riddles, and finally came to one that we thought would work.”

  Oral History Interview with Albert Gore, October 24, 1976. Interview A-0321-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “Sam had a great wish to follow in the footsteps of his master and be a poet, and was therefore often heard singing doggerels of his own composition.”

  Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter

• “They may see sonnets in double-shuffle metre, doggerels in hop-skip iambics, and ordinary newspaper "ponies" with the rhythm of the St. Vitus dance.”

  The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

• “In this game the seeker for a prize is guided from place to place by doggerels as the following, and is started on his hunt with this rhyme:”

  Games for Hallow-e'en

• “These queer little doggerels have an instinctive affinity for oblivion, and they will soon coalesce with the driftwood of the literary Sargasso”

  Mince Pie

• “Poetry was on the stands nearly two years before the first Braithwaite anthology, and long before Miss Lowell had been lured from her earlier finishing-school doggerels by the Franco-British”

  Prejudices : first series,

• “Methods of literary production beyond his own doggerels were a mystery to him.”

  A Prisoner in Fairyland

• “There his unappreciated doggerels found fame, though misunderstood most of all by the affectionate child who copied them so proudly.”

  A Prisoner in Fairyland

• “The May-day morris-dancers, like the Christmas mummers, performed sword-dances and sang appropriate doggerels in costume.”

  Miscellanea

• “[FN#624] These doggerels, which are like our street melodies, are now forgotten and others have taken their place.”

  Arabian nights. English

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