How Salvator Won and Other Recitations

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Ella Wheeler Wilcox In Year : 1891

Book Language: English

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Preface
How Salvator Won
The Gossips
Platonic
Solitude
Grandpa’s Christmas
After the Engagement
The Watcher
False
The Phantom Ball
The Kingdom of Love
Under the Sheet
His Youth
Wanted—a Little Girl
Two Sinners
Meg’s Curse
A Fable
The Way of It
The Suicide
''Now I Lay Me''
The Messenger
Illogical
A Servian Legend
Peek-a-boo
The Falling of Thrones
Her Last Letter
Babyland
Fishing
The Old Stage Queen
The Princess’s Finger Nail
A Baby in the House
The Foolish Elm
Robin’s Mistake
New Year Resolve
What We Want
Two Glasses
A Pin
Breaking the Day in Two
The Rape of the Mist
The Maniac
What Is Flirtation
How Does Love Speak
As You Go Through Life
Memory's River
The Lady and the Dame
A Married Coquette
A Plea
Summer Girl
The Beautiful Blue Danube
The Birth of the Opal
Sounds From the Base-ball Field
A Waltz-Quadrille
Answered
The Sign-board
About May
The Giddy Girl
Dell and I
Vanity Fair
A Girl’s Autumn Reverie
Gethsemane
The Coming Man
A Man’s Repentance
Dick’s Family

Ella Wheeler Wilcox is an American poet known for her popular lyrics that capture positive and uplifting themes. This volume is quite diverse, including the concluding piece that is read as a little play. Her preface to expresses the unique character of this collection. “I am constantly urged by readers and impersonators to furnish them with verses for recitation. In response to this ever-increasing demand I have selected, for this volume, the poems which seem suitable for such a purpose. In making my collection I have been obliged to use, not those which are among my best efforts in a literary or artistic sense, but those which contain the best dramatic possibilities for professionals. Several of the poems are among my earliest efforts, others were written expressly for this book. In “Meg’s Curse,” which has never before been in print, and in several others, I ignored all rules of art for the purpose of giving the public reader a better chance to exercise his elocutionary powers.- Summary by Larry Wilson