Sour Sonnets of a Sorehead & Other Songs of the Street

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Sour Sonnets of a Sorehead & Other Songs of the Street (1908)
by James Percival Haverson
1632747Sour Sonnets of a Sorehead & Other Songs of the Street1908James Percival Haverson


Sour Sonnets
of a Sorehead


& Other Songs of the Street


By James P Haverson


Pictured by
Fergus Kyle


McLeod & Allen
Publishers—Toronto




What's de use of writin' dope
About a foreign clime,
In trying to enlarge your scope
And elevate your rhyme?
Put out your pipe; who wants to read
Of Timbucktoo or Rome?
You'd do a whole lot better screed
About de bunch at home.




Copyright, U.S.A., 1908, by H. M. Caldwell & Company
Copyright, Canada, 1908, by The Hunter-Rose Company, Limited





Dope Sheet



Sour Sonnets of a Sorehead and Other Songs of the Street


The Author—A Frontispiece

Ourselves—Dedicatory

Pen Prodigals—A Justification

The Hunch—A Preface


The Sorehead—A Full-page Drawing

Sonnets One to Sixteen


Appreciation

A Tough Triangle—Him, Her, Her Sister

Tribute

A Throw-Down

A Pipe Dream

At the Show


A Yeller Pup

Triolets of Trust—Him, Her

Fourflushin'

Good Gospel

Common Tunes

City Streets

A Glimpse

A Call

Boost

Two Estimates of Bernard Shaw:
From the Boxes
From the Gods

Thrills

Knights of the Round Table

Money Talks

Get Wise

Shut Up

Envy

A Kick

A Tip

A Vesper Song

Life




Acknowledgment is hereby made to "Toronto Saturday Night," "The New York Sun," and "Sage Brush Philosophy," in whose columns some of these verses have appeared. ¶ This book was planned and typed by Charles Edward Peabody for the Hunter-Rose Company, Limited, and printed and bound by them at their Printing Office on Sheppard Street in Toronto, MCMVIII