- Verse and Worse
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A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted Proverbs, and Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes.
- Chapters
- Author's Preface
- Foreword
- Abroad
- United States of America
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Ireland
- Wales
- China
- France
- Germany
- Holland
- Iceland
- Italy
- Japan
- Portugal
- Russia
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Dreamland
- Stageland
- Loverland
- Homeland
- Prelude (Childish Complaints)
- Appendicitis
- Whooping-Cough
- Measles
- Adenoids
- Croup
- Mother-Wit
- Uncle Joe
- Aunt Eliza
- Absent-mindedness
- John
- Baby
- The Cat
- 'Virtue is its own Reward'
- 'Enough is as Good as a Feast'
- 'Don't Buy a Pig in a Poke'
- 'Learn to Take Things Easily'
- 'A Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss'
- 'It is Never Too Late to Mend'
- 'A Bad Workman Complains of his Tools'
- 'Don't Look a Gift-horse in the Mouth'
- Potpourri
- Bill
- The Legend of the Author
- The Motriot
- The Ballad of the Artist
- The Ballad of Ping-pong
- The Pessimist
- The Place where the Old Cleek Broke
- The Homes of London
- The Happiest Land
- A London Involuntary
- Bluebeard
- The Woman with the Dead Soles
- Rosemary (A Ballad of the Boudoir)
- Portknockie's Porter
- The Ballad of the Little Jinglander
- Aftword
- Envoi