In hand I take this pen of mine
To write you, sweet, a valentine;
I'd take your dainty hand instead,
But-you're a drawing-I am wed-
And that is why, you understand,
I only take my pen in hand.

(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