Contents by Topic

This page lists all texts in the same order as they appear in the PDF file, that is, by topic.

Novels and Stories

Short Stories

Mathematical Texts

Geometry

Voting

Most texts about voting deal with mathematical aspects, which is why they are listed here. See also The Proposed Procuratorial Cycle and following texts.

Logic

Alternative Methods of Computation

Carroll developed several alternative methods of computation that in some situations are more efficient than the standard ones.

Collections of Formulæ

Other Mathematical Texts

Games

This list contains all text about games, with the exception of Co-operative Backgammon, which is found as part of a notice in the Times.

Texts on Religion and Morality

Texts concerning Oxford

This list contains all texts about Christ Church, Oxford, etc. Some of these texts are written in a humourus tone (which may make it hard to understand what they are really about), some seriously. Note that there are also some poems that would have fitted here for its topic, but are together with the other poems. These are: Examination Statute, The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council, and The Deserted Parks

Texts concerning Vivisection

See also the poem Fame’s Penny-Trumpet.

Texts concerning Theatres

Texts about Letters, Post, etc.

Other Texts

Images

Poems

This part contains all poems by Lewis Carroll I could find. It also includes poems extracted from his stories (except those poems that he only quotes, and are not by him; and except for very short verses, especially Memoria Technica verses like Specific Gravities of Metals. When there is more than one version (not counting just differences in punctuation etc.), all versions are collected here. The titles for poems without original title are derived from the surrounding text, or just the incipit. The poems are in alphabetical order of their first words (ignoring any introductions, even the introduction of Hiawatha’s Photographing), so you can find a poem when you know how it starts, with one exception: The poem starting with “I watch the drowsy night expire” is found among “T”, because the later version starts with “The night creeps onward, sad and slow” (Faces in the Fire).

A boat, beneath a sunny sky
A is for . . . . . ., who’d physic the Masses: Examination Statute
A Monument
A Mother’s breast: A Nursery Darling
A short direction: Rules and Regulations
Alas! she would not hear my prayer!
Alice dear, will you join me in hunting the Snark?
Alice dreamed one night
All day he had sat without a hat: The Poet’s Farewell
All in the Golden Afternoon
An aged gardener gooseberries picked: A Tale of a Tail
An old man sat anent a clough: The Storm
And cannot pleasures, while they last: A Valentine
Are you deaf, Father William?
Around my lonely hearth, to-night
As I was ling’ring by the river’s stream: The Angler’s Adventure
As I was sitting on the hearth: As It Fell upon a Day
As to the war, try elm. I tried: Anagrammatic Sonnet
As when an anthem in full chorus-swell: Prologue (1862)
Ay, ’twas here, on this spot: Atalanta in Camden-Town
Beautiful Soup, so rich and green: Turtle Soup
Beloved Pupil! Tamed by thee: To My Pupil
Beneath the Waters of the Sea
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack: Fame’s Penny-Trumpet
But supposing this sheep, when he entered the fold: Sequel to “The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain”
Child of the pure unclouded brow
Dear Dolly, since I do not know
Dear Maggie,—I found that the friend
Dear Violet,—I’m glad to hear
Dreaming of apples on a wall: Puzzles from Wonderland
Dreams, that elude the Waker’s frenzied grasp
Empress of Art, for thee I twine: Four Riddles. No. II
Even while the blinding bandage lies
Fair stands the ancient Rectory: Lays of Sorrow. No. 2
First, the fish must be caught
Five Fathom Square the Belfry Frowns
Five little girls, of Five, Four, Three, Two, One: A Game of Fives
Fly swiftly, gentle Monster! Bear me hence: Verses for Christmas Cards
For more than sixty years: Tears
Four frantic Members
From a window thrown: The Spell
From his shoulder Hiawatha: Hiawatha’s Photographing (early version)
From his shoulder Hiawatha: Hiawatha’s Photographing (later version)
From the air do they come?
Fury said to a mouse
Girlie to whom in perennial bloom
Girt with a Boyish Garb
Give tea to my First: ’tis as round as a ball: Dedicated to a tea-tea. Why? Oh, when?
Grim was the scowl of his face that day: Screams
Hark, said the dying man, and sighed: The Valley of the Shadow of Death
He saw her once, and in the glance: Three Sunsets
He shouts amain, he shouts again: Madrigal
He stept so lightly to the land: Far Away
He thought he saw an Elephant: Mad Gardener’s Song
He trilled a carol fresh and free: The Three Voices (later version)
Heard ye the arrow hurtle in the sky?: The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council
Here I bee, and here I byde
Here’s to the Freshman of bashful eighteen!: A Bachanalian Ode
His barque hath perished in the storm
His highness Yang-ki-ling: Yang-ki-ling
How Doth the Little Crocodile
How shall I be a poet?: Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur
Hush-a-by Lady, in Alice’s Lap!
I charm in vain; for never again: To my Child-Friend
I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls: The Palace of Humbug
I give thee all
I have a fairy by my side: My Fairy
I have a horse—a ryghte goode horse: Ye Carpette Knyghte
I love the stillness of the wood: Solitude
I met an aged, aged man: Upon the Lonely Moor
I never loved a dear gazelle: Poetry for the Million
I never loved a dear Gazelle: Tèma con Variazióni
I often wondered when I cursed: Square Poem
I painted her a gushing thing: Disillusionized
I saw a child: even if blind
I sing a place wherein agree: Double Acrostic (Argles)
I stood within the gate: After Three Days
If grass should grow in Pimlico: Charade (Amy Hughes)
If Ruth & you
If such a thing had been my thought: Misunderstandings
If thou wouldst view the Belfry aright
I’ll tell thee everything I can: A-sitting on A Gate
“I’m EMInent in RHYME!” she said: Rhyme? and Reason?
In her eyes is the living light: Beatrice
In stature the Manlet was dwarfish
In the dark silence of an ancient room: The Path of Roses
In Winter, When the Fields are White
Into the wood—the dark, dark wood: Little Red Riding Hood
Is All Our Life
Is it the glow of conscious pride
It’s the last night of the year, boys: Tommy’s Dead
It is the lawyer’s daugh…: The Lyceum
“Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried: The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits.
King Fisher courted Lady Bird: King-fisher Song
“Ladies and Gentlemen” seems stiff and cold: Prologue (1871)
Lady Clara Vere de Vere: Echoes
Lady dear, if Fairies may: Christmas-Greetings
Let craft, ambition, spite
Little Birds
Little maidens, when you look: Lines
Lorenzo dwelt at Heighington
Love-lighted eyes
Lunch at one (that’s “adîn”): A Russian’s Day in England
Maiden, though thy heart may quail
Maidens, if a maid you meet
Maidens! If you love the tale
Man naturally loves delay: Punctuality
Matilda Jane
Methought I walked a dismal place: Horrors
Museum! loveliest building of the plain: The Deserted Parks
My dear Christie
My First has no beard
My First heads all atrocity heartrending
My First is a berry
My First is singular at best: Four Riddles. No. IV
My first lends his aid when I plunge into trade: A Riddle
My First we call her when her belt is on
My First’s a drink resembling wine
My mother bids me bind my hair: Those Horrid Hurdy-Gurdies!
My Sukie! He hath bought, yea, Muggle’s self
Near Albury, so runs my lay
“No mind!” the little maiden cried
No, no! I cannot write a line
Now what’s the most appropriate thing
O come to me at two today
Of man in stature small yet deeds sublime: The Ligniad, in two Books
Oh Caledonian Maiden!: To “Hallie”
Oh, do not forget the day when we met: Ode to Damon
Oh pudgy podgy pup
Oh ye whose hearts have nerves
One thousand pounds per annuum: Tottles
One winter night, at half-past nine: Phantasmagoria
Only a Woman’s Hair
Our Latin books, in motley row: A Lesson in Latin
Our Willie had been sae lang awa’: The Wandering Burgess
“Peter is poor,” said noble Paul: Peter and Paul
Puck has fled the haunts of men: Puck Lost and Found
Rise, oh, rise! The daylight dies: Ting, Ting, Ting
Round the wondrous globe
Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping: A Song of Love
See the planets as they rise: Terrors
See! There are tears upon her face: The Sailor’s Wife
Seek ye Love, ye fairy-sprites?: Love among the Roses
Shall soldiers tread the murderous path of war: La Guida di Bragia
She’s all my Fancy Painted Him
Sister, sister, go to bed!: Brother and Sister
Solemnly sighing: Clara
Something fails
Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy
Tell me truly, Maidens three
Thanks, thanks, fair Cousins, for your gift: Double Acrostic (Kerr)
The air is bright with hues of light: Four Riddles. No. III
The day was wet, the rain fell souse: Lays of Sorrow. No. 1
The Juvenile Jenkins
The Khalif Emir sat upon his throne: A Fable
The ladye she stood at her lattice high: The Lang Coortin’
The light was faint, and soft the air: Stolen Waters
The morn was bright, the steeds were light: The Willow-Tree
The night creeps onward, sad and slow: Faces in the Fire
The royal MAB, dethroned, discrowned: To M. A. B.
The sun was shining on the sea: The Walrus and the Carpenter
The year when boilers froze
The youth at eve had drunk his fill: The Lady of the Ladle
There are certain things—as, a spider, a ghost: A Sea Dirge
There be three Badgers on a mossy stone
There was a man who stood on high: The Headstrong Man
There was a Pig that sat alone: The Pig-Tale
There was a strange being into the North: The Trial of a Traitor
There was a young lady of station: A Limerick
There was an ancient City, stricken down: Four Riddles. No. I
There was an old farmer of Readall: Melodies
There were two brothers at Twyford school: The Two Brothers
They both make a roaring
They passed beneath the College gate: The Majesty of Justice
They told me you had been to her
Three Children
Three little maidens, weary of the Rail: To Three Puzzled Little Girls, From the Author
Three Little Maids
Tis a melancholy song: Miss Jones
’Tis the voice of the Lobster
To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said
Twas bryllyg, and the slythy toves: Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves: Jabberwocky
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
Two little girls near London dwell: Double Acrostic (Bremer)
Two little maids were heard to say: Double Acrostic (Hughes)
Two Thieves
Uncertain was his hazy pace: Thrillings
We lived beneath the mat
Well, if you must know all the facts, I was merely reading a pamphlet: A Visitor
Were I to take an iron gun: Facts
What hand may wreathe
What though the world be cross and crooky?
When Desolation snatched her tearful prey
When I was young, my ringlets waved
When Maggie once to Oxford came: Maggie’s Visit to Oxford
When .a.y and I.a told .a..ie they’d seen a: Puzzle
When midnight mists are creeping: Dreamland
When on the sandy shore I sit: Size and Tears
While once in haste I crossed the street: Charity
Wiffie! I’m sure that something is the matter!: Prologue (1873)
“Will you trot a little quicker?”
Will you Walk a Little Faster?
Wil’t please your grace to go along with us?: A Quotation from Shakespeare with Slight Improvements
With hands tight clenched through matted hair: The Three Voices (early version)
With rapid start: Woes
With saddest music all day long: Melancholetta
Written by Maggie B—: Maggie B—
Yn the Auckland Castell cellar
“You are old, Father William,” the young man said: Father William
Ytte wes a mirke an dreiry cave: Ye Fatalle Cheyse

Prefaces, Introductions, and Other Texts about Books

This part contains prefaces, introductions and similar parts of books, unless they form one part with the main content, in which case they are kept together with the main text. It also contains other texts about books, like advertisements and announcements.