Author: Ellis Parker Butler

When Cupid held an auction sale, I hastened to his mart, For I had heard that he would sell The […]

O! fair, sweet Phyllis and sweet, fair May, Which of you carried my heart away? Who has my heart? I […]

The cruelty of P. L. Brown- (He had ten toes as good as mine) Was known to every one in […]

Oh! Montmorency Vere de Vere, To think that one I held so dear Should use a base deceiver’s art To […]

I have no heart to write verses to May; I have no heart-yet I’m cheerful today; I have no heart-she […]

When Love and I drew softly nigh And gazed in modest Chloe’s eye We saw reflected there in part The […]

I know something wonderful-wonderful; So strange it will quite startle you; So strange and absurd and unusual It seems it […]

And now behold this sulking boy, His costly presents bring no joy; Harsh tears of anger fill his eye Tho’ […]

A merry burgomaster In a burgh upon the Rhine Said, “Our burghers all are Far too fond of drinking wine.” […]

When with me the play she goes, I much admire the buds and bows And all that on Kate’s headgear […]

She does not mind a good cigar (The kind, that is, I smoke); She thinks all men quite stupid are, […]

When first we met she seemed so white I feared her; As one might near a spirit bright I neared […]

So great my debt to thee, I know my life Is all too short to pay the least I owe, […]

O wonderful! In sport we climbed the tree, Eager and laughing, as in all our play, To see the eggs […]

Little cullud Rastus come a-skippin’ down de street, A-smilin’ and a-grinnin’ at every one he meet; My, oh! He was […]

A full-fledged gun cannot endure The trifling of an amateur; Poor marksmanship its temper spoils And this is why the […]

Just as the sun was setting Back of the Western hills Grandfather stood by the window Eating the last of […]

Whenas-(I love that “whenas” word- It shows I am a poet, too,) Q. Horace Flaccus gaily stirred The welkin with […]

Nature, when she made thee, dear, Begged the treasures of the year. For thy cheeks, all pink and white, Spring […]

Well, then! How’d you like to bear the name of Butler As an honor badge eight centuries at least, And […]