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Poem by Samuel Butler


On a Club of Sots


The jolly members of a toping club,
Like pipestaves, are but hoop’d into a tub;
And in a close confederacy link,
For nothing else but only to hold drink.



Samuel Butler


Samuel Butler's other poems:
  1. Laborious Writers
  2. Politicians
  3. Inventions
  4. Fear
  5. Smatterers


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