Samuel Minturn Peck. Dollie. Fuess and Stearns, comps. 1922. The Little Book of Society Verse

Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.

Dollie

By Samuel Minturn Peck


SHE sports a witching gown
With a ruffle up and down,
On the skirt:
She is gentle, she is shy,
But there’s mischief in her eye,	5
She’s a flirt!

She displays a tiny glove,
And a dainty little love
Of a shoe;
And she wears her hat a-tilt	10
Over bangs that never wilt
In the dew.

’T is rumoured chocolate creams
Are the fabrics of her dreams—
But enough!	15
I know beyond a doubt
That she carries them about
In her muff.

With her dimples and her curls
She exasperates the girls	20
Past belief:
They hint that she ’s a cat,
And delightful things like that
In her grief.

It is shocking, I declare,	25
But what does Dollie care
When the beaux
Come flocking to her feet
Like the bees around a sweet
Little rose!	30