Impertinent Poems

By

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