Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson : Pen Name Lewis Carroll Born 27th January 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England. Died (age 65) 14th January 1898, Guildford, Surrey, England. Lewis Carroll was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass” (includes the poem “Jabberwocky“), […]

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Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) With Twelve Fairy-Fancies By E. Gertrude Thomson Three Sunsets and Other Poems Preface Nearly the whole of this volume is a reprint of the serious portion of Phantasmagoria and other Poems, which was first published […]

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Puck Lost and Found Poem by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Poetry from Three Sunsets and Other Poems. Puck Lost and Found Poem Puck has fled the haunts of men: Ridicule has made him wary: In the woods, and down the glen, No one meets a Fairy! “Cream!” the greedy Goblin cries— Empties the deserted dairy— […]

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Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing by Lewis Carroll Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing Contents On Stamp-Cases How to begin a Letter How to go on with a Letter How to end a Letter On registering Correspondence § 1. On […]

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Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) With Forty-Six Illustrations by Harry Furniss Is all our Life, then, but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time’s dark resistless stream? Bowed to the earth with bitter woe, Or laughing at some raree-show, We flutter […]

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Far Away Poem by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Poetry from Three Sunsets and Other Poems. Far Away Poem He stept so lightly to the land, All in his manly pride: He kissed her cheek, he clasped her hand; Yet still she glanced aside. “Too gay he seems,” she darkly dreams, “Too gallant and too gay, […]

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A Lesson in Latin Poem by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Poetry from Three Sunsets and Other Poems. A Lesson in Latin Poem Our Latin books, in motley row, Invite us to our task— Gay Horace, stately Cicero: Yet there’s one verb, when once we know, No higher skill we ask: This ranks all other lore […]

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A Song of Love Poem by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Poetry from Three Sunsets and Other Poems. A Song of Love Poem Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping, That lures the bird home to her nest? Or wakes the tired mother, whose infant is weeping, To cuddle and croon it to […]

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The Hunting of The Snark Poem by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) The Hunting of The Snark Poem an Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) The Hunting of The Snark Poem Preface If—and the thing is wildly possible—the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive […]

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Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Through the Looking-Glass Contents Through the Looking-Glass Chapter I. Looking-Glass house Through the Looking-Glass Chapter II. The Garden of Live Flowers Through the Looking-Glass Chapter III. Looking-Glass Insects Through the Looking-Glass Chapter IV. […]

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Jabberwocky Poem by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Poem from chapter II of Through the Looking-Glass. Jabberwocky Poem ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. ‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the […]

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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) With Illustrations By Arthur B. Frost Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task, Eager she wields her spade: yet […]

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