Poems and Songs
Carroll wrote multiple poems and songs for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, including:
- "All in the golden afternoon..."—the prefatory verse, an original poem by Carroll that recalls the rowing expedition on which he first told the story of Alice's adventures underground
- "How Doth the Little Crocodile"—a parody of Isaac Watts' nursery rhyme, "Against Idleness and Mischief"
- "The Mouse's Tale"—an example of concrete poetry
- "You Are Old, Father William"—a parody of Robert Southey's "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them"
- The Duchess's lullaby, "Speak roughly to your little boy..."—a parody of David Bates' "Speak Gently"
- "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat"—a parody of Jane Taylor's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
- "The Lobster Quadrille"—a parody of Mary Botham Howitt's "The Spider and the Fly"
- "'Tis the Voice of the Lobster"—a parody of Isaac Watts' "The Sluggard"
- "Beautiful Soup"—a parody of James M. Sayles's "Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star"
- "The Queen of Hearts"—an actual nursery rhyme
- "They told me you had been to her..."—the White Rabbit's evidence
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Famous quotes containing the words poems and/or songs:
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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