There’s a rumble an’ a jumble an’ a humpin’ an’ a thud, 26
There used to be a boy next door, 172
There will be dreams again! The grass will spread, 171
They dug no grave for our soldier lad, who fought and who died
out there:, 136
They knew they were fighting our war. As the months grew to years, 52
They shall not pass, While Britain’s sons draw breath, 125
They shall return when the wars are over, 179
They’ve put us through our paces;, 69
This is the song of the Plane--, 190
Thou art no longer here, 90
Through the dark night and the fury of battle, 84
’Tis a green isle set in a silver water, 180
Trotting the roan horse, 170
Twenty years of the army, of drawing a sergeant’s pay, 38
Unfurl the flag of Freedom, 98
Up among the chimneys tall, 49
Was there ever a game we did not share, 91
We had forgotten You, or very nearly--, 55
We never were made to be seen on parade, 66
We often sit upon the porch on sultry August nights, 59
West to the hills, the long, long trail that strikes, 123
We whom the draft rejected, 160
What are we fighting for, men of my race, 165
When I return, let us be very still, 33
When the shells are bursting round, 174
Who was it, picked from civil life, 127
Why do we love our flag? Ask why flowers love the sunshine, 173
Within this nation-hallowed tomb, 202
Write us your verse, oh, soldier, tell us the grim, red tale, 193
Yes, back at home I used to drive a tram;, 97
You’re a funny fellow, poilu, in your dinky little cap, 95
You see that young kid lying there, 124
“You’ve heard a good deal of the telephone wires”, 57
Readings and Monologues à la Mode
By WALTER BEN HARE
Thirty-two platform selections in prose and verse, ranging from humor to
pathos, and affording an excellent repertoire for the versatile
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Some Vaudeville Monologues
By HARRY L. NEWTON
Right up to the minute and covers a wide range of characters. Thirteen
for men and five for women.
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CONTENTS.--“People I Have Met”--_Cholly has a perfect batting average in
the laugh league_. “Well, I Swan!”--_Reuben’s impressions of a big
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hands are free_. “Sorrows of Sadie”--_a chorus girl confides to a
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Let’s Pretend
A Book of Children’s Plays
By LINDSEY BARBEE
“Come--let’s pretend!” has been the slogan of all childhood. A few gay
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children.
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Jolly Monologues
By MARY MONCURE PARKER
Another superb group of readings by the author of “Merry Monologues.”
The twenty-eight original selections in prose and verse will prove gems
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CONTENTS.--At the Bridge Party; A Free Lunch; You Have the Same Old
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You’s Mah Lil’ Coal Black Baby; The Ghost of Annie Flanigan; The Club
Luncheon; The New Baby; The Kisses of Life; What George Thinks of the
Movies; Isn’t Art Absorbing; Her Valentine; Maggie McCarty Talks About
Receptions; Hiram and the Bolshevists; Jimmy’s Prayer; What Mary Thinks
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Merry Monologues
By MARY MONCURE PARKER
These selections are wholly original and sufficiently varied in
character and sentiment to enable the reader to make up a well-rounded
program in which high comedy mingles with farce and pathos in a manner
suitable for all occasions. Nineteen monologues and nine short poems
which are especially adapted to that particular form of entertainment
called the pianologue, viz., reading to music.
[Illustration]
Some of the selections are new but most of them are the pick from the
author’s wide repertoire, which she has used throughout this country and
in England. They bear the stamp of enthusiastic public approval and are
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=Contents:= On the Street Car; The Renaissance of the Kiss; Husbands Is
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New Baby; Lucile Gets Ready for a Dance; Mandy’s Man and Safety First;
Maggie McCarthy Goes on a Diet; Mrs. Climber Doesn’t Like Notoriety;
Lucindy Jones Expects a Legacy; Grown Folks Is so Awful Queer; At the
Movies; The Gingie Boy; Ode to a Manikin; Isaacstein’s Busy Day; Like
Pilgrims to the Appointed Place; Mrs. Bargain Counter Meets a Friend;
Mother Mine; Maggie McCarthy Has Her Fortune Told; In Vaudeville; Uncle
Jim and the Liniment; The Funny Story; In the Milliner Shop; Mrs.
Trubble’s Troubles; George’s Cousin Willie; When Lucindy Goes to Town; A
Question.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] From “Poems,” by Alan Seeger. Copyright, 1916, by Charles
Scribner’s Sons, Publishers, New York. Permission to reproduce in this
book.
[2] “The Soldier,” and “Not With Vain Tears” are from “The Collected
Poems of Rupert Brooke,” published and copyright, 1915, by John Lane
Company, New York. Special permission to reproduce in this book.
End of Project Gutenberg's Great Poems of the World War, by W. D. Eaton