Poems by Ellis Parker Butler
Bird Nesting
... And part, with them, in Gods great motherhood ...
Circumstantial Evidence
... (But then mine are so bright!)She does not like a big moustache ...
Cupid Caught Napping
... Played Zoom! Zoom! upon his cello ...
Golden Silence
... And never a word said she!I cast her hand from me with rage unsuppressed, ...
Immortality
... Nay, waste in wailing not thy breath, ...
Jabed Meeker, Humorist
... Thats where Meeker beats Mark flat!Just imagine three or four ...
Judgment Day
... And he knew that anglers, as a whole, were earth's most harmless crew ...
Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II: On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures
... * * * * * (Brown after that had but six toes! WarningInfinitives, by this we see ...
Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; III: On Laziness And Its Resultant Ills
... His laziness had caused his death! WarningSpelling reformers should make haste ...
Millennium
... The world is getting just perfectly grand, ...
Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels
... (with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper)I well recall (and who does not) ...
New England Magazine
... And maigre grew, and thinner!Tout food was gone, and dans the street ...
Night In The City
... Toils careworn slave turns out his flickering light ...
No Beer, No Work
... And where, all parched and scorched it hung, ...
October
... And every hill-side glows with gold and fire ...
