How'd You Like It?

Ellis Parker Butler

Well, then! How’d you like to bear the name of Butler
  As an honor badge eight centuries at least,
And then have the Prohibitionists inform you
  That a butler is a sort of outlawed beast?

Next 10 Poems

• Ellis Parker Butler : Immortality
• Ellis Parker Butler : Jabed Meeker, Humorist
• Ellis Parker Butler : Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; I: On Dishonesty Arising From Ignorance
• Ellis Parker Butler : Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; Ii: On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures
• Ellis Parker Butler : Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; Iii: On Laziness And Its Resultant Ills
• Ellis Parker Butler : Mary Had A Little Frog
• Ellis Parker Butler : Maude's Valentine
• Ellis Parker Butler : Merry Christmas And Happy New Year!
• Ellis Parker Butler : Millennium
• Ellis Parker Butler : Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels

Previous 10 Poems

• Ellis Parker Butler : Good-better-best
• Ellis Parker Butler : Golden Silence
• Ellis Parker Butler : Cupid Caught Napping
• Ellis Parker Butler : Circumstantial Evidence
• Ellis Parker Butler : Bird Nesting
• Ellis Parker Butler : At Variance
• Ellis Parker Butler : Anticipation
• Ellis Parker Butler : An Old-fashioned Garden
• Ellis Parker Butler : An Exception
• Ellis Parker Butler : A Study In Feeling