Through the Looking Glass

Poems and songs

The Walrus and the Carpenter

Most poems and songs in the book do not include a title.

  • "Introduction" (prelude; "Child of the pure unclouded brow…")
  • "Jabberwocky"[e][9]: 31–34, chap.I 
  • "Tweedledum and Tweedledee"[9]: 74, chap.IV 
  • "The Walrus and the Carpenter"[f][9]: 77–82, chap.IV 
  • "Humpty Dumpty"[9]: 115, chap.VI 
  • Humpty Dumpty's poem ("In Winter when the fields are white…")[9]: 128–30, chap.VI 
  • "The Lion and the Unicorn"[9]: 141, chap.VII 
  • "Haddocks' Eyes" (i.e., "A-sitting on a Gate")[9]: 171–3, chap.IX 
  • Red Queen's lullaby ("Hush-a-by lady, in Alice's lap…")[9]: 187, chap.X 
  • "To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said…"[9]: 192, chap.X 
  • White Queen's riddle ("'First, the fish must be caught'…")[9]: 197, chap.X 
  • "A boat beneath a sunny sky"(postlude; acrostic poem in which putting the beginning letters of each line spell Alice Pleasance Liddell, the girl after whom the book's Alice is named[10]).[9]: 210–11 

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