Poems and songs[edit]
Carroll wrote multiple poems and songs for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, including:

"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
"Beautiful Soup" also known as "Turtle Soup", sung by the Mock Turtle—a parody of James M. Sayles's song "Star of the Evening, Beautiful Star", which was performed as a trio by Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell for Lewis Carroll in the Liddell home during the same summer in which he first told the story of Alice's Adventures Under Ground.[20]
"How Doth the Little Crocodile"—a parody of Isaac Watts' nursery rhyme, "Against Idleness and Mischief"
"Speak roughly to your little boy..."—the Duchess' lullaby, is a parody of David Bates' "Speak Gently"
"The Lobster Quadrille"—a parody of Mary Botham Howitt's "The Spider and the Fly"
"The Mouse's Tale"—an example of concrete poetry
"The Queen of Hearts"—an actual nursery rhyme
"They told me you had been to her..."—the White Rabbit's evidence
"'Tis the Voice of the Lobster"—a parody of Isaac Watts' "The Sluggard"
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat"—a parody of Jane Taylor's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
"You Are Old, Father William"—a parody of Robert Southey's "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them"