Edmund Vance Cooke

Author of

"Chronicles of the Little Tot" "Told to the Little Tot" "Rimes to Be Read" Etc.

With Illustrations by

Gordon Ross

New York Dodge Publishing Company 220 East 23rd Street Copyright, 1903, by Edmund Vance Cooke Copyright, 1907, by Dodge Publishing Company

A PRE-IMPERTINENCE.

Anticipating the intelligent critic of "Impertinent Poems," it may well be remarked that the chief impertinence is in calling them poems. Be that as it may, the editors and publishers of "The Saturday Evening Post," "Success" and "Ainslee's," and, in a lesser degree, "Metropolitan," "Independent," "Booklovers'" and "New York Herald" share with the author the reproach of first promoting their publicity. That they are now willing to further reduce their share of the burden by dividing it with the present publishers entitles them to the thanks of the author and the gratitude of the book-buying public.

E. V. C.

INDEX.

PAGE Are You You? 59 Better 83 Between Two Thieves 71 Blood is Red 33 Bubble-Flies, The 61 Choice, The 68 Conscience Pianissimo 47 Conservative, The 40 Critics, The 89 Dead Men's Dust 11 Desire 99 Diagnosis 35 Dilettant, The 38 Distance and Disenchantment 77 Don't Take Your Troubles to Bed 22 Don't You? 16 Eternal Everyday, The 21 Failure 23 Familiarity Breeds Contempt 95 Family Resemblance 79 First Person Singular, The 66 Forget What the Other Man Hath 85 Get Next 57 Good 24 Grill, The 30 How Did You Die? 103 Humbler Heroes 45 Hush 41 In Nineteen Hundred and Now 14 Island, The 43 Let's Be Glad We're Living 26 Move 55 Need 81 Pass 51 Plug 92 Price, The 60 Publicity 53 Qualified 63 Saving Clause, The 70 Song of Rest, A 97 Spectator, The 73 Spread Out 37 Squealer, The 75 Success 28 There Is, Oh, So Much 101 Vision, The 32 What Are You Doing? 65 What Sort Are You? 87 Whet, The 86 World Runs On, The 49 You Too 18

IMPERTINENT POEMS

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DEAD MEN'S DUST.

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IN NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NOW.

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DON'T YOU?

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YOU TOO.

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THE ETERNAL EVERYDAY.

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DON'T TAKE YOUR TROUBLES TO BED.

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