.--C.
Dickens, _Great Expectations_ (1860).

=Podgers= (_The_), lickspittles of the great.--J. Hollingshead, _The
Birthplace of Podgers_.

=Podsnap= (_Mr._), "a too, too smiling large man, with a fatal freshness
on him." Mr. Podsnap has "two little light-colored wiry wings, one on
either side of his else bald head, looking as like his hair-brushes as
his hair." On his forehead are generally "little red beads," and he
wears "a large allowance of crumpled shirt-collar up behind."

_Mrs. Podsnap_, a "fine woman for Professor Owen: quantity of bone,
neck, and nostrils like a rocking-horse, hard features, and majestic
head-dress in which Podsnap has hung golden offerings."

_Georgiana Podsnap_, daughter of the above; called by her father "the
young person." She is a harmless, inoffensive girl, "always trying to
hide her elbows." Georgiana adores Mrs. Lammle, and when Mr. Lammle
tries to marry the girl to Mr. Fledgeby, Mrs. Lammle induces Mr. Twemlow
to speak to the father and warn him of the connection.

=Poe= (_Edgar Allen_). Poe's parents were actors, and in 1885, the actors
of America erected a monument to the memory of the unhappy poet. The
poem read at the dedication of the memorial was by _William Winter_.

"His music dies not, nor can ever die,
Blown 'round the world by every wandering wind,
The comet, lessening in the midnight sky,
Still leaves its trail of glory far behind."

=Poem in Marble= (_A_), the Taj, a mausoleum of white marble, raised in
Agra, by Shah Jehan, to his favorite, Shahrina Moomtaz-i-Mahul, who died
in childbirth of her eighth child. It is also called "The Marble Queen
of Sorrow."

=Poet= (_The Quaker_), Bernard Barton (1784-1849).

=Poet Sire of Italy=, Dant[^e] Alighieri (1265-1321).

=Poet Squab.= John Dryden was so called by the earl of Rochester, on
account of his corpulence (1631-1701).

=Poet of France= (_The_), Pierre Ronsard (1524-1585).

=Poet of Poets=, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).

=Poet of the Poor=, the Rev. George Crabbe (1754-1832).

=Poets= (_The prince of_). Edmund Spenser is so called on his monument in
Westminster Abbey (1553-1598).

_Prince of Spanish Poets._ So Cervant[^e]s calls Garcilaso de la Vega
(1503-1536).

=Poets of England.=

Addison, Beaumont, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Burns,
Butler, Byron, Campbell, Chatterton, Chaucer, Coleridge, Collins,
Congreve, Cowley, Cowper, Crabbe, Dray