Very Bad Poetry by Petras, Kathryn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Alas Carolina The Lover’s Return on a Bicycle [Untitled] How Strange Are Dreams! Byron A Pretty Girl More Care for the Neck Than for the Intellect God Correctly Understood The Poem Showing the Most Mathematical Genius

Eliza Cook (1818-1889)

The Surgeon’s Knife The Carrion Crow Lines Among the Leaves Song of the Sea Weed A Pathetic Lament

Lillian E. Curtis (fl. 1870s)

Only One Eye The Potato The Two Bears

J. P. Dunn (fl. 1917)

Kansas An Ode to Governor Capper

Edward Edwin Foot (fl. 1867)

Jane Hollybrand; or, Virtue Rewarded The Homeward-Bound Passenger Ship [Untitled] The Worst Baby Talk Poem

Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)

“Hullo!”

James Grainger (1721-1767)

The Sugar Cane Bryan and Pereene: A West Indian Ballad

Matthew Green (1697-1737)

The Spleen

Joseph Gwyer (1835-?)

To Alfred Gwyer Ode on the Visit of the Shah of Persia On the Death of the Duke of Clarence On the Funeral of Dr. Livingston

Nancy Luce (fl. 1860s)

Poor Little Hearts

William McGonagall (1830-1902)

The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay The Tay Bridge Disaster An Address to the New Tay Bridge A Tale of the Sea The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie The Funeral of the German Emperor The Famous Tay Whale The Late Sir John Ogilvy The Royal Review The Sprig of Moss The Clepington Catastrophe The Most Anticlimactic Poem

James Mcintyre (1827-1906)

Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Oxford Cheese Ode Prophecy of a Ten Ton Cheese Disaster to Steamer Victoria at London Potato Bug Exterminators Wooden Leg

George Meredith (1828-1909)

The Empty Purse: A Sermon to Our Later Prodigal Son

Owen Meredith (Robert Lytton, Earl of Lytton) (1831-1891)

Going Back Again The Vampyre Midges The Worst Attempts at Rhymes by Very Bad Poets

In a Book-store by Francis Saltus Saltus The Light-Bearer of Liberty by J. W Scholl Indian Corn by Rev. William Cook

James Milligan (fl. 1800s)

The Science of Geology

Bertha Moore (fl. 1890s)

A Child’s Thought

Julia A. Moore (1847-1920)

Hattie House Little Libbie Roll On, Time, Roll On Croquet by Moonlight Ashtabula Disaster Hiram Helsel The Brave Page Boys The Author’s Early Life

Edward Newman (fl. 1840)

Earwigs

Georgia Bailey Parrington (fl. 1907)

An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy

Robert Peter (fl. 1800s)

On Time, Death, and Eternity The Worst Tribute to a Great Poet

Mattie J. Peterson (1866-1947) or (1866-1906)

I Kissed Pa Twice after His Death The Old Homestead

James Henry Powell (fl. 1850)

Lines Written for a Friend on the Death of His Brother, Caused by a Railway Train Running over Him Whilst He Was in a State of Inebriation

James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)

The Smitten Purist: And the Charming Miss Smith’s Effect upon Him The Happy Little Cripple A Dubious “Old Kriss”

Amanda McKinttrick Ros (1860-1939)

On Visiting Westminster Abbey A Little Belgian Orphan Thoughts The End of “Pain” The Old Home On a Girl Who Took Action for Breach of Promise I Love to See a Lady Nice and Natural at Any Price When Bad Poems Happen to Good Poets The Thorn by William Wordsworth

Francis Saltus Saltus (1849-1889)

Mothers Posthumous Revenge The Kiss The Masters Two Loves Found Refuge: A Mood of Madness

George Robert Sims (1847-?)

Beauty and the Beast

Slocum Slugs, Esq. (fl. 1857)

I Saw Her in Cabbage Time: A Dutch Melody

William B. Tappan (1794-1849)

Obey Your Parents Song of the Three Hundred Thousand Drunkards in the United States The Last Drunkard

Rev. Samuel Wesley Sr. (1660-1735)

On Two Souldiers Killing One Another for a Groat A Pindaricque on the Grunting of a Hog

Cornelius Whur (1782-1853)

The Armless Artist The Unfortunate Gentleman

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

Drops of Water Come Back Clean

George Wither (1588-1667)

A Love Sonnet

Poems by Unknown Authors

Ode to a Ditch My Last Tooth [Untitled] Battles of Joshua [Untitled] Independence Day The Worst Poem Ever Written in the English Language

Acknowledgments About the Editors

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