Poems List

Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington,

Don’t put your daughter on the stage.

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Mad dogs and Englishmen

Go out in the midday sun.

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The most I’ve had is just

A talent to amuse.

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Mad about the boy.

title of song (1932)

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Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans When our Victory is ultimately won.

‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ (1943 song)

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But I believe that since my life began The most I’ve had is just A talent to amuse.

If Love Were All [1929]

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I’ll see you again, Whenever spring breaks through again.

Bittersweet [1929], act I, sc. ii

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Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

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Never fear [the audience] or despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all … never, never, never bore the hell out of it.
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