Very bad poetry / edited by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras.

John Armstrong (1709-1779). The Art of Preserving Health
Alfred Austin (1835-1913). The Human Tragedy. Go Away, Death! The Wind Speaks
T. Baker (fl. 1850s). The Steam Engine
The Most Convoluted Syntax: On a Procession with the Prince of Wales / Joseph Gwyer
Samuel Bentley (fl. 1760s). The River Dove: A Lyric Pastoral
Mrs. Marion Albina Bigelow (fl. 1850s). Children Disinterred. Two Smothered Children
E.E. Bradford (1860-1944). The Tree of Knowledge. His Mother Drinks
The Most Lurid Account of Tragedy: Calamity in London; Family of Ten Burned to Death / William McGonagall
Colonel I.J. Brittain (fl. 1918). The Tragedy of Ida Ball Warren and Samuel Christie
Fred Emerson Brooks (fl. 1894). The Stuttering Lover. Old Eagle
Solyman Brown (1790-1876). The Dentologia
A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth
T.E. Brown (1830-1897). Between Our Folding Lips
Wallace Bruce (fl. 1907). A Holland Brick
H.C. Bunner (fl. 1880s). In School House: A Real Romance. Their Wedding Journey
J. Gordon Coogler (1865-1901). 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: The Round of the Clock / Frederick B. Needham
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: The New Baby / Fred Emerson Brooks
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: The Grand Rapids Cricket Club / Julia A. Moore
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 / Francis Saltus Saltus
The Worst Attempts at Rhymes by Very Bad Poets: The Light-Bearer of Liberty / J.W. Scholl
The Worst Attempts at Rhymes by Very Bad Poets: Indian Corn / 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: English Poets / James McIntyre
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 McKittrick 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 / 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: A Tragedy / Theophile Marzials.