Dollie. Samuel Minturn Peck (1854-1938). Poems of Home: IV. Youth. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. I. Of Home: of Friendship

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904.

Poems of Home: IV. Youth

Dollie

Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938)


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 rumored 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 their 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