| Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922. | | | | To Minnie | | By Robert Louis Stevenson |
| | (With a Hand-glass)
A PICTURE-FRAME for you to fill, | |
| A paltry setting for your face, | |
| A thing that has no worth until | |
| You lend it something of your grace. | |
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| I send (unhappy I that sing | 5 |
| Laid by awhile upon the shelf) | |
| Because I would not send a thing | |
| Less charming than you are yourself. | |
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| And happier than I, alas! | |
| (Dumb thing; I envy its delight) | 10 |
| ’T will wish you well, the looking-glass, | |
| (And look you in the face to-night). | | | | |
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