O! fair, sweet Phyllis and sweet, fair May,
Which of you carried my heart away?
Who has my heart? I would like to know
Which was the guilty one of the two,
But I only know it was filched one day
By fair, sweet Phyllis, or sweet, fair May.

(C) Ellis Parker Butler
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Ellis Parker Butler

• Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; Ii:
• A St. Valentines Day Tragedy
• Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; Iii: On Laziness And Its Resultant Ills
• Why I Went To The Foot
• Western
• The Djolan
• Song For Heroes
• Bird Nesting
• Jabed Meeker, Humorist
• A Study In Feeling
• Outbid
• Says Mister Doojabs
• Millennium
• A Question
• Immortality
• A Minute
• An Exception
• A Satisfactory Reform
• At Variance
• Anticipation
• An Old-fashioned Garden