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Ellis Parker Butler
December 5, 1869 - September 13, 1937
Poetry Listing
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Please Note: This list is not comprehensive, but is an ongoing work of the love of poetry.
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| | Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: | A Culinary Puzzle | In our dainty little kitchen, | | 32 | 628 | | 2: | A Lost Angel | When first we met she seemed so white | | 44 | 674 | | 3: | A Minute | She plucked a blossom fair to see; | | 12 | 674 | | 4: | A Parisian Episode | Upon Bottle Miche the autre day | | 48 | 625 | | 5: | A Pastoral | Just as the sun was setting | | 36 | 594 | | 6: | A Question | Whene’er I feed the barnyard folk | | 16 | 633 | | 7: | A Satisfactory Reform | A merry burgomaster In a burgh upon the Rhine | | 40 | 689 | | 8: | A Scotchman Whose Name Was Isbister | A Scotchman whose name was Isbister | | 5 | 696 | | 9: | A St. Valentine's Day Tragedy | Oh! Montmorency Vere de Vere, | | 10 | 665 | | 10: | A Study In Feeling | To be a great musician you must be a man of moods, | | 36 | 614 | | 11: | An Exception | In all romances, old and new, | | 12 | 667 | | 12: | An Old-fashioned Garden | Strange, is it not? She was making her garden | | 12 | 629 | | 13: | Anticipation | I hold her letter as I stand, | | 12 | 626 | | 14: | At Variance | When with me the play she goes, | | 6 | 611 | | 15: | Bird Nesting | O wonderful! In sport we climbed the tree, | | 8 | 679 | | 16: | Circumstantial Evidence | She does not mind a good cigar | | 20 | 631 | | 17: | Cupid Caught Napping | Cupid on a summer day, | | 24 | 624 | | 18: | Djolan | Soft was the night, the eve how airy, | | 36 | 624 | | 19: | Golden Silence | I told her I loved her and begged but a word, | | 16 | 603 | | 20: | Good - Better - Best | When young, in tones quite positive | | 12 | 572 | | 21: | How'd You Like It? | Well, then! How’d you like to bear the name of Butler | | 4 | 626 | | 22: | Immortality | I bowed my head in anguish sore | | 8 | 625 | | 23: | Jabed Meeker, Humorist | Twain? Oh, yes, I’ve heard Mark Twain | | 42 | 634 | | 24: | Judgment Day | Saint Peter stood, at Heaven's gate, | | 44 | 602 | | 25: | Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; I: On Dishonesty Arising From Ignorance | King Joris was a kind-eyed king, | | 37 | 618 | | 26: | Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II: On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures | The cruelty of P. L. Brown | | 32 | 564 | | 27: | Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; III: On Laziness And Its Resultant Ills | There was a man in New York City | | 46 | 574 | | 28: | Mary Had A Little Frog | Mary had a little frog | | 4 | 647 | | 29: | Merry Christmas And Happy New Year! | Little cullud Rastus come a-skippin’ down de street, | | 6 | 660 | | 30: | Millennium | The great millennium is at hand. | | 28 | 549 | | 31: | Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels | I well recall (and who does not) | | 33 | 603 | | 32: | New England Magazine | Upon Bottle Miche the autre day | | 48 | 620 | | 33: | Night In the City | The sluggish clouds hang low upon the town, | | 12 | 570 | | 34: | No Beer, No Work | The shades of night was fallin’ slow | | 25 | 565 | | 35: | October | The forest holds high carnival to-day, | | 8 | 616 | | 36: | Outbid | When Cupid held an auction sale, | | 32 | 569 | | 37: | Partners | Love took chambers on our street | | 16 | 650 | | 38: | Reasonable Interest | I want to know how Bernard Shaw | | 24 | 624 | | 39: | Ridden Down | When I taught Ida how to ride a | | 12 | 621 | | 40: | Says Mister Doojabs | Well, eight months ago one clear cold day, | | 48 | 604 | | 41: | Song For Heroes | Captain O’Hare was a mariner brave; | | 24 | 556 | | 42: | Speaking Of Operations | I know something wonderful, wonderful; | | 8 | 580 | | 43: | The Ballad Of A Bachelor | Listen, ladies, while I sing | | 52 | 642 | | 44: | The Ballade Of The Automobile | When our yacht sails seaward on steady keel | | 28 | 624 | | 45: | The Ballade Of The Mistletoe Bough | I am standing under the mistletoe, | | 29 | 573 | | 46: | The Charge of the Second Iowa Cavalry | Comrades, many a year and day | | 89 | 586 | | 47: | The Cut Finger | It’s bleedin’! It’s bleedin’! | | 30 | 563 | | 48: | The Daughter Of The Year | Nature, when she made thee, dear, | | 17 | 597 | | 49: | The Final Tax | Said Statesman A to Statesman Z: | | 36 | 615 | | 50: | The Golf Walk | Behold, my child, this touching scene, | | 16 | 581 | | 51: | The Hunter | A full-fledged gun cannot endure | | 12 | 631 | | 52: | The Poor Boy's Christmas | Observe, my child, this pretty scene, | | 10 | 630 | | 53: | The Rich Boy's Christmas | And now behold this sulking boy, | | 10 | 672 | | 54: | The Romance Of Patrolman Casey | There was a young patrolman who | | 40 | 561 | | 55: | The Secret Combination | Her heart she locked fast in her breast, | | 24 | 626 | | 56: | The Sheep | The Sheep adorns the landscape rural | | 20 | 604 | | 57: | The Tearful Tale Of Captain Dan | A sinner was old Captain Dan; | | 100 | 644 | | 58: | The Twenty Hoss-Power Shay | You have heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay | | 68 | 626 | | 59: | The Water Nymphs | They hide in the brook when I seek to draw nearer, | | 8 | 578 | | 60: | The Whale | The Whale is found in seas and oceans, | | 16 | 642 | | 61: | The Wood Nymph | A glint of her hair or a flash of her shoulder, | | 8 | 598 | | 62: | To G. M. W. And G. F. W. | Whenas, (I love that “whenas” word, | | 56 | 559 | | 63: | To Jessica, Gone Back To The City | Sence fair Jessica hez left us | | 36 | 573 | | 64: | To Kate. ( In Lieu Of A Valentine ) | Sweet Love and I had oft communed; | | 25 | 578 | | 65: | To Marguerite | So great my debt to thee, I know my life | | 8 | 556 | | 66: | To May | I have no heart to write verses to May; | | 4 | 624 | | 67: | To Phyllis And May | O! fair, sweet Phyllis and sweet, fair May, | | 6 | 558 | | 68: | Trespassers | When Love and I drew softly nigh | | 16 | 569 | | 69: | Valentine To The Girl In Black | In hand I take this pen of mine | | 6 | 657 | | 70: | When Ida Puts Her Armor On | The Cowboy had a sterling heart, | | 20 | 594 | | 71: | Why I Went To The Foot | Was ever a maiden so worried? | | 28 | 585 | | 72: | Why Washington Retreated | Said Congress to George Washington: | | 72 | 577 | | 73: | Womanly Qualms | When I go rowing on the lake, | | 24 | 579 | | 74: | Would You Believe It? | One year ago I wished that I | | 16 | 672 |
About:
Ellis Parker Butler was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and is most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating geometrically.
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