Star Light, Star Bright (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Star, that gives a gracious dole,What am I to choose?Oh, will it be a shriven soul,Or little buckled shoes?Shall I ...
Star, that gives a gracious dole,What am I to choose?Oh, will it be a shriven soul,Or little buckled shoes?Shall I ...
Daily I listen to wonder and woe,Nightly I hearken to knave or to ace,Telling me stories of lava and snow,Delicate ...
My garden blossoms pink and white,A place of decorous murmuring,Where I am safe from August nightAnd cannot feel the knife ...
Star, that gives a gracious dole, What am I to choose?Oh, will it be a shriven soul, Or little buckled ...
Oh, gallant was the first love, and glittering and fine;The second love was water, in a clear white cup;The third ...
Razors pain you;Rivers are damp;Acids stain you;And drugs cause cramp.Guns aren't lawful;Nooses give;Gas smells awful;You might as well live.(Dorothy Parker)
I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, "How gay 'twould beTo hang ...
Oh, mercifullest one of all, Oh, generous as dear, None lived so lowly, none so small, Thou couldst withhold thy ...
Who call him spurious and shoddy Shall do it o'er my lifeless body. I heartily invite such birds To come ...
Now it's over, and now it's done; Why does everything look the same? Just as bright, the unheeding sun, -- ...
Oh, when I flung my heart away, The year was at its fall. I saw my dear, the other day, ...
My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet ...
The bird that feeds from off my palm Is sleek, affectionate, and calm, But double, to me, is worth the ...
Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but ...
Here in my heart I am Helen; I'm Aspasia and Hero, at least. I'm Judith, and Jael, and Madame de ...
Who was there had seen us Wouldn't bid him run? Heavy lay between us All our sires had done. There ...
Who lay against the sea, and fled, Who lightly loved the wave, Shall never know, when he is dead, A ...
Lilacs blossom just as sweet Now my heart is shattered. If I bowled it down the street, Who's to say ...
When I am old, and comforted, And done with this desire, With Memory to share my bed And Peace to ...
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine; This living, this living, this living Was never ...
Never love a simple lad, Guard against a wise, Shun a timid youth and sad, Hide from haunted eyes. Never ...
Half across the world from me Lie the lands I'll never see- I, whose longing lives and dies Where a ...
Sleep, pretty lady, the night is enfolding you; Drift, and so lightly, on crystalline streams. Wrapped in its perfumes, the ...
If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all ...
There's many and many, and not so far, Is willing to dry my tears away; There's many to tell me ...
Oh, I should like to ride the seas, A roaring buccaneer; A cutlass banging at my knees, A dirk behind ...
A string of shiny days we had, A spotless sky, a yellow sun; And neither you nor I was sad ...
When I consider, pro and con, What things my love is built upon -- A curly mouth; a sinewed wrist; ...
He will love you presently If you be the way you be. Send your heart a-skittering. He will stoop, and ...
Although I work, and seldom cease, At Dumas pere and Dumas fils, Alas, I cannot make me care For Dumas ...
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