Digital Changeling

June 29, 2007

Poetry Friday, Poem from 1906

Being home sick on a beautiful Friday sucks. The only upside that I can see is that I can tolerate sunlight well enough to put up my poetry Friday post.

Anyway, this week's poem comes from the June 1906 issue of the Delineator (I only recently purchased this magazine, so I haven't not yet scanned it). The poem seemed especially relevant since this week in my Weight Watchers meeting we spent almost ten minutes talking about ways to get fruits and vegetables into one's diet. The poem was placed as the header to an article called "Salads -- Artistic and Hygienic". For some reason the fact that they have to call out the hygienic part is hilarious to me.

A Salad
By Phila Butler Bowman

It looks so dainty, -- so tempting
So fit for the taste of a queen,
Such epicurean colors,
Such garnishing of greens,
Such art! But I turn from it bravely.
I dare not do more than look.
For I know, where I but to taste it,
I should fall in love, -- with the cook.

posted by Eva @ 10:28 AM

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What a saucy poem! Thanks for posting it.

posted by  Alkelda the Gleeful : June 29, 2007 2:25 PM

 

Food: the eternal muse...

What a great place to find a poem!

I see, via Google, that Phila was also connected with the famous
Farm and Home Bureau Federation Song Contest 1922.

posted by  Sam Riddleburger : June 30, 2007 3:14 PM

 

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