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How Salvator Won & Other Recitations

How Salvator Won & Other Recitations

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Author
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919
Title
How Salvator Won, and Other Recitations
Credits
Produced by Thierry Alberto, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
American poetry -- 19th century
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 61902
Release Date
April 23, 2020
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.How Salvator Won
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.HOW SALVATOR WON.
  5. 5.THE GOSSIPS.
  6. 6.PLATONIC.
  7. 7.SOLITUDE.
  8. 8.GRANDPA’S CHRISTMAS.
  9. 9.AFTER THE ENGAGEMENT.
  10. 10.THE WATCHER.
  11. 11.FALSE.
  12. 12.THE PHANTOM BALL.
  13. 13.THE KINGDOM OF LOVE.
  14. 14.UNDER THE SHEET.
  15. 15.HIS YOUTH.
  16. 16.WANTED—A LITTLE GIRL.
  17. 17.TWO SINNERS.
  18. 18.MEG’S CURSE.
  19. 19.A FABLE.
  20. 20.THE WAY OF IT.
  21. 21.THE SUICIDE.
  22. 22.“NOW I LAY ME.”
  23. 23.THE MESSENGER.
  24. 24.ILLOGICAL.
  25. 25.A SERVIAN LEGEND.
  26. 26.PEEK-A-BOO.
  27. 27.THE FALLING OF THRONES.
  28. 28.HER LAST LETTER.
  29. 29.BABYLAND.
  30. 30.FISHING.
  31. 31.THE OLD STAGE QUEEN.
  32. 32.THE PRINCESS’S FINGER-NAIL. A TALE OF NONSENSE LAND.
  33. 33.A BABY IN THE HOUSE.
  34. 34.THE FOOLISH ELM.
  35. 35.ROBIN’S MISTAKE.
  36. 36.NEW YEAR RESOLVE.
  37. 37.WHAT WE WANT.
  38. 38.THE TWO GLASSES.
  39. 39.A PIN.
  40. 40.BREAKING THE DAY IN TWO.
  41. 41.THE RAPE OF THE MIST.
  42. 42.THE MANIAC.
  43. 43.WHAT IS FLIRTATION?
  44. 44.HOW DOES LOVE SPEAK?
  45. 45.AS YOU GO THROUGH LIFE.
  46. 46.MEMORY’S RIVER.
  47. 47.THE LADY AND THE DAME.
  48. 48.A MARRIED COQUETTE.
  49. 49.A PLEA.
  50. 50.THE SUMMER GIRL.
  51. 51.“THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE.” [With “Blue Danube Waltz” as musical accompaniment.]
  52. 52.THE BIRTH OF THE OPAL.
  53. 53.SOUNDS FROM THE BASEBALL FIELD.
  54. 54.A WALTZ-QUADRILLE. [With Musical Accompaniment.]
  55. 55.ANSWERED.
  56. 56.THE SIGN-BOARD.
  57. 57.ABOUT MAY.
  58. 58.THE GIDDY GIRL. [This recitation is intended to be given with an accompaniment of waltz music, introducing dance-steps at the refrain: “With one, two, three,” etc.]
  59. 59.DELL AND I.
  60. 60.VANITY FAIR.
  61. 61.A GIRL’S AUTUMN REVERIE.
  62. 62.GETHSEMANE.
  63. 63.THE COMING MAN.
  64. 64.A MAN’S REPENTANCE. [Intended for recitation at club dinners.]
  65. 65.DICK’S FAMILY.

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