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Ellis Parker Butler's Poetry, by title

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  • A Culinary Puzzle
    In our dainty little kitchen,
    Where my aproned wife is queen
    32 lines
  • A Lost Angel
    When first we met she seemed so white
    I feared her;
    44 lines
  • A Minute
    She plucked a blossom fair to see;
    Upon my coat I let her pin it;
    13 lines
  • A Pastoral
    Just as the sun was setting
    Back of the Western hills
    37 lines
  • A Question
    Whene’er I feed the barnyard folk
    My gentle soul is vexed;
    16 lines
  • A Satisfactory Reform
    A merry burgomaster
    In a burgh upon the Rhine
    41 lines
  • A Scotchman Whose Name Was Isbister
    A Scotchman whose name was Isbister
    Had a maiden giraffe he called "sister"
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • A St. Valentine’s Day Tragedy
    Oh! Montmorency Vere de Vere,
    To think that one I held so dear
    11 lines
  • A Study In Feeling
    To be a great musician you must be a man of moods,
    You have to be, to understand sonatas and etudes.
    37 lines
  • An Exception
    In all romances, old and new,
    And in all lover's rhymes
    13 lines
  • An Old-Fashioned Garden
    Strange, is it not? She was making her garden,
    Planting the old-fashioned flowers that day—
    14 lines
  • Anticipation
    I hold her letter as I stand,
    Nor break the seal; no need to guess
    12 lines
  • At Variance
    When with me the play she goes,
    I much admire the buds and bows
    7 lines
  • Bird Nesting
    O wonderful! In sport we climbed the tree,
    Eager and laughing, as in all our play,
    9 lines
  • Circumstantial Evidence
    She does not mind a good cigar
    (The kind, that is, I smoke);
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • Cupid Caught Napping
    Cupid on a summer day,
    Wearied by unceasing play,
    24 lines
  • Deer
    The deer's a mighty useful beast
    From Petersburg to Tennyson
    5 lines
  • Djolan
    Soft was the night, the eve how airy,
    When through the big, fat dictionary
    37 lines
  • Dogs
    Dogs is mighty useful beasts
    They might seem bad at first
    6 lines
  • Golden Silence
    I told her I loved her and begged but a word,
    One dear little word, that would be
    17 lines
  • Good - Better - Best
    When young, in tones quite positive
    I said, "The world shall see
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • How'd You Like It?
    Well, then! How'd you like to bear the name of Butler
    As an honor badge eight centuries at least,
    5 lines
  • Immortality
    I bowed my head in anguish sore
    When Life made Death his bride;
    9 lines
  • Jabed Meeker, Humorist
    Twain? Oh, yes, I’ve heard Mark Twain
    Heard him down to Pleasant Plain;
    42 lines
  • Judgment Day
    Saint Peter stood, at Heaven's gate,
    All souls claims to adjudicate
    45 lines
  • Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II:
    Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II: On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures
    The cruelty of P. L. Brown—
    35 lines, 1 comment
  • Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; III:
    Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; III: On Laziness And Its Resultant Ills
    There was a man in New York City
    49 lines
  • Mary Had A Little Frog
    Mary had a little frog
    And it was water-soaked,
    4 lines
  • Merry Christmas And Happy New Year!
    Little cullud Rastus come a-skippin’ down de street,
    A-smilin’ and a-grinnin’ at every one he meet;
    7 lines
  • Millennium
    The great millennium is at hand.
    Redder apples grow on the tree.
    29 lines
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