Nothing to WearRudd & Carleton, 1857 - 68 pages The collection consists of a fair copy of Butler's poem. |
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Page 64 - the curses that sound like the echoes of Hell. As you sicken and shudder and fly from the door ; Then home to your wardrobes, and say, if you dare— Spoiled children of Fashion — you've nothing to wear! And oh, if perchance there should be a sphere, Where all is made right which so puzzles us here,
Page 64 - To the garret, where wretches, the young and the old, Half-starved, and half-naked, lie crouched from the cold. See those skeleton limbs, those frost-bitten feet, All bleeding and bruised by the stones of the street; Hear the sharp cry of childhood, the deep groans that swell From the poor dying creature who writhes on the floor,
Page 24 - So don't prose to me about duty and stuff, If we don't break this off, there will be time enough For that sort of thing; but the bargain must be That, as long as I choose, I am perfectly free, For this is a sort of engagement, you see, Which is binding on you but not
Page 15 - to the ship, and GO-BY to the duties. Her relations at home all marvelled no doubt, Miss Flora had grown so enormously stout For an actual belle and a possible bride ; But the miracle ceased when she turned inside out, « And the truth came to light, and the dry goods beside,
Page 18 - And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear ! I should mention just here, that out of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers, I had just been selected as he who should throw all The rest in the shade, by the gracious bestowal
Page 45 - Poked my feet into slippers, my fire into blaze, And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole, do you think he would have much to spare
Page 14 - Not to mention a quantity kept from the rest, Sufficient to fill the largest sized chest, Which did not appear on the ship's manifest, But for which the ladies themselves manifested Such particular interest, that they invested Their own proper persons in layers and rows Of muslins, embroideries, worked underclothes, Gloves, handkerchiefs, scarfs, and such trifles as those
Page 13 - robes to twenty-sous frills ; In all quarters of Paris, and to every store, While M'Flimsey in vain stormed, scolded, and swore, They footed the streets, and he footed the bills. The last trip, their goods shipped by the steamer Arago Formed, M'Flimsey declares, the bulk of
Page 66 - Fade and die in the light of that region sublime, Where the soul, disenchanted of flesh and of sense, Unscreened by its trappings, and shows, and pretence, Must be clothed for the life and the service above, With purity, truth, faith, meekness, and love; Oh, daughters of Earth! foolish virgins, beware ! Lest in that upper realm you have nothing to wear
Page 21 - On myself, after twenty or thirty rejections, Of those fossil remains which she called "her affections," And that rather decayed, but well-known work of art, Which Miss Flora persisted in styling "her heart." So we were engaged. Our troth had been plighted, Not by moonbeam or starbeam, by fountain or grove, Beneath the gas-fixtures we whispered our love. Without any