(5 December 1869 - 13 September 1937 / Muscatine / Iowa / United States)

poet Ellis Parker Butler

Poems of Ellis Parker Butler

1. A Culinary Puzzle 4/20/2010
2. A Lost Angel 4/20/2010
3. A Minute 4/20/2010
4. A Pastoral 4/20/2010
5. A Question 4/20/2010
6. A Satisfactory Reform 4/20/2010
7. A Scotchman Whose Name Was Isbister 4/20/2010
8. A St. Valentine’s Day Tragedy 4/20/2010
9. A Study In Feeling 4/20/2010
10. An Exception 4/20/2010
11. An Old-Fashioned Garden 4/20/2010
12. Anticipation 4/20/2010
13. At Variance 4/20/2010
14. Bird Nesting 4/20/2010
15. Circumstantial Evidence 4/20/2010
16. Cupid Caught Napping 4/20/2010
17. Deer 4/20/2010
18. Djolan 1/13/2003
19. Dogs 4/20/2010
20. Golden Silence 4/20/2010

Good - Better - Best

When young, in tones quite positive
I said, "The world shall see
That I can keep myself from sin;
A good man I will be."

But when I loved Miss Kate St. Clair
'Twas thus my musing ran:
"I cannot be compared with her;
I'll be a better man."

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