George Ade
George Ade Poems
The very first duty of a chaperon
Is to leave the young folks quite alone;
Permitting them to sit up late
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I speak for poor little woman —
Please do not turn away;
Oh, mighty man, do what you can,
Our misery to allay.
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What man dare say that he is quite immune
From charms and spells that ev'ry girl possesses ?
A budding love is like the warmth of June,
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Through all the moving thoroughfares
And in the contending marts of trade;
Within the babbling magazines and
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Mrs. B.:
From out a canon in the West I came with colors flying,
To meet the people known as ' best,' or strain myself while trying;
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I am not hypercritical on points of punctuation;
A misplaced comma now and then is surely not a sin;
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We haven't the appearance, goodness knows,
Of plain commercial men;
From a hasty glance, you might suppose
We are fractious now and then.
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An ancient joker, grizzled and half-bald,
With the outward seeming and the attire
Of a devout deacon, and yet possessing
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When the chapel bell struck the midnight hour
And the campus lay asleep,
We'd count the strokes from the ivy tower,
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When I was but a Freshman — and that was long ago —
I saw her first, but did not learn her name.
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The 'Publican Party — the Democratic,
An' the daily papers, too,
Have asked in a manneh most emphatic
What the cullud race will do.
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Part First
You'll recall, if you're strong on historical stuff,
The name of that highly deluded old fluff
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Back in the golden days of youth,
On a farm in I-o-way;
Happiest days of all were they,—
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Wherever British drumbeats sound,
Unending 'round the world;
Wherever in some land new-found,
Our starry flag's unfurled;
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A lovelorn microbe met by chance
At a swagger bacteroidal dance
A proud bacillian belle, and she
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We figured once on fans and screens —
We figure now on the Philippines.
It's not the style to pat my head;
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Within a house of public entertainment
There sat an ebon slave close at the foot
Of a heavy chair topping a broad dais.
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I
The folks in Section A
Who watch a problem play
Of the kind C. F. imports for Ethel Barrymore
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George Ade Biography
George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright. The United States, in Ade's lifetime, underwent a great population shift and transfer from an agricultural to an industrial economy. Many felt the nation suffered the even more agonizing process of shifting values toward philistinism, greed, and dishonesty. Ade's prevalent practice is to record the pragmatic efforts of the little man to get along in such a world. Ade propounds a golden mean, satirizing both hidebound adherence to obsolete standards and too-easy adjustment to new ones. His view is often an ambiguous, ambivalent, pragmatic reaction to the changing scene, but it remains an invaluable literary reflection of the conflicting moral tensions resident in our national culture at the turn of the century. Ade was a playwright as well as an author, penning such stage works as Artie, The Sultan of Sulu(a musical comedy), The College Widow, The Fair Co-ed, and "The County Chairman". He wrote the first American play about football. After twelve years in Chicago, he built a home near the town of Brook, Indiana (Newton County). It soon became known for hosting a campaign stop in 1908 by William Howard Taft, a rally for Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party in 1912, and a homecoming for soldiers and sailors in 1919. George Ade is one of the American writers whose publications made him rich. When land values were inflated about the time of World War I, Ade was a millionaire. The Ross-Ade football stadium at Purdue University was built with his (and David E. Ross's) financial support. He also generously supported his college fraternity, Sigma Chi, leading a fund-raising campaign to endow the Sigma Chi mother house at the site of the fraternity's original establishment at Miami University. Ade is also famous among Sigma Chis as the author of The Sigma Chi Creed, written in 1929, one of the central documents of the fraternity's philosophies. George Ade died in Brook, Indiana, aged 78. He is buried in Fairlawn Cemetery in Kentland.)
The Best Poem Of George Ade
Yellow! Yellow!
The Poet Of The New School Speaks
I'm great and
I know it.
People can't understand me.
I can't understand myself.
I don't want to.
If I did understand myself
I wouldn't be great.
Listen now:
'The moon reels and the
Phantom passes twice and thrice
The death damp hand
Across my brow.
O what of joy?
O - what of grief?
Darkness—blank — a sob in the throat.
O phantom, phantom, phantom!'
Pretty good, eh?
Especially if it has
Some little, smudgy, inky
Pictures strung along the edges.
I used to write about
Men and women, back yards,
Plain courtships, flowers and other things
That people understood.
Now I write lines that have
No meaning, because they are
Fragments of dreams that
Were never dreamt.
' A soul writhed long
In its purple belongings.
O drip of blood!
O drip of blood!
Caught up in the wan hand of sleep
And clotted with the dawn.'
Do you notice the ' O '—
The upper-case ' O ' ?
I use that a great deal.
If anyone will tell me
What I am writing about
I will let him smoke my
Opium pipe all afternoon.
These little, twisted,
Ugly, whirligig pictures
Have nothing to do with
The lines I am writing.
If I tell about a midnight trance,
I have a picture of a sunrise.
If the lines mention something
About a maiden with snaky hair
The picture is that of a demon
With a forked tail.
This is genius.
The world didn't find it out
Until last year.
There are but two colors
In all this world — yellow
And another shade of yellow.
I am very yellow myself,
But people say I am great.
I write my stuff on yellow paper
And use yellow ink.
Excuse me for awhile;
I'm full of hop.
George Ade Comments
George Ade Quotes
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.
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