William Allen Butler

  • “Nothing to Wear”

    Miss Flora MCFLIMSEY, of Madison Square,
      Has made three separate journeys to Paris,
    And her father assures me, each time she was there,
      That she and her friend Mrs. Harris
    (Not the lady whose name is so famous in history,
    But plain Mrs. H., without...

  • Incognita of Raphael

    Long has the summer sunlight shone
      On the fair form, the quaint costume;
    Yet, nameless still, she sits, unknown,
      A lady in her youthful bloom.

    Fairer for this! no shadows cast
      Their blight upon her perfect lot,
    Whate’er her future or her...