Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the British mathematician and author Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by talking creatures and anthropomorphic playing cards.

Poems and songs

• "All in the golden afternoon..." (the prefatory verse, an original poem by Carroll that recalls the rowing expedition on which he first told the story of Alice's adventures underground)
• "How doth the little crocodile..." (a parody of Isaac Watts' nursery rhyme, "How doth the little busy bee")
• The Mouse's Tale (an example of concrete poetry)
• "You are old, Father William..." (a parody of Robert Southey's "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them")
• The Duchess' lullaby: "Speak roughly to your little boy..."(a parody of David Bates "Speak Gently")
• "Twinkle, twinkle little bat..." (a parody of Twinkle twinkle little star)
• The Lobster Quadrille (a parody of Mary Botham Howitt' "The Spider and the Fly")
• "?Tis the voice of the lobster, I heard him declare..." (a parody of "Tis the voice of the Sluggard")
• Turtle Soup (a parody of James M. Sayles' "Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star")
• "The Queen of Hearts..." (an actual nursery rhyme)
• "They told me you had been to her..." (the White Rabbit's evidence)