Poem by Ellis Parker Butler

Valentine to the Girl in Black

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.

1. To Jessica, Gone Back to the City
2. The Poor Boy’s Christmas
3. A Culinary Puzzle
4. The Final Tax
5. To May

Print

1141 Views

Last Poems

To Russian version