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) 1976

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 All Occasions Mary E. Blain

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 William Wells Brown

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 Mary E. Blain

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: a Tale of the Southern States William Wells Brown

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

Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

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, 1919

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

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

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

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910