1. Home »
  2. American Poets »
  3. Ellis Parker Butler

How’d You Like It?

by Ellis Parker Butler

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?




Quotes of the Day

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
• Barbara Pym


Poems of the Day
  • Kim Addonizio
    New Year’s Day
    by Kim Addonizio
    The rain this morning falls on the last of the snow and will wash it away. I can smell the grass again, and the torn leaves being eased down into the mud. The few loves I’ve been ...