Pictures In The Smoke (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Oh, gallant was the first love, and glittering and fine;The second love was water, in a clear white cup;The third ...
Dorothy Parker Poems on Love (52 Poems)
Fighting Words (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Say my love is easy had, Say I'm bitten raw with pride, Say I am too often sad- Still behold ...
Partial Comfort (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Whose love is given over-well Shall look on Helen's face in hell, Whilst those whose love is thin and wise ...
The Searched Soul (Dorothy Parker Poems)
When I consider, pro and con, What things my love is built upon -- A curly mouth; a sinewed wrist; ...
Finis (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Now it's over, and now it's done; Why does everything look the same? Just as bright, the unheeding sun, -- ...
Plea (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Secrets, you said, would hold us two apart; You'd have me know of you your least transgression, And so the ...
The Second Oldest Story (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Go I must along my ways Though my heart be ragged, Dripping bitter through the days, Festering, and jagged. Smile ...
For A Lady Who Must Write Verse (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Unto seventy years and seven, Hide your double birthright well- You, that are the brat of Heaven And the pampered ...
Pour Prendre Conge (Dorothy Parker Poems)
I'm sick of embarking in dories Upon an emotional sea. I'm wearied of playing Dolores (A role never written for ...
The Trifler (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Death's the lover that I'd be taking; Wild and fickle and fierce is he. Small's his care if my heart ...
From A Letter From Lesbia (Dorothy Parker Poems)
... So, praise the gods, Catullus is away! And let me tend you this advice, my dear: Take any lover ...
Prologue to a Saga (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Maidens, gather not the yew, Leave the glossy myrtle sleeping; Any lad was born untrue, Never a one is fit ...
To A Much Too Unfortunate Lady (Dorothy Parker Poems)
He will love you presently If you be the way you be. Send your heart a-skittering. He will stoop, and ...
Frustration (Dorothy Parker Poems)
If I had a shiny gun, I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the ...
Requiescat (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Tonight my love is sleeping cold Where none may see and none shall pass. The daisies quicken in the mold, ...
Ultimatum (Dorothy Parker Poems)
I'm wearied of wearying love, my friend, Of worry and strain and doubt; Before we begin, let us view the ...
A Certain Lady (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head, And drink your rushing words with eager lips, And paint ...
General Review Of The Sex Situation (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman ...
Somebody’s Song (Dorothy Parker Poems)
This is what I vow; He shall have my heart to keep, Sweetly will we stir and sleep, All the ...
Verse For a Certain Dog (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes, Dear little friend of mine, I never knew. All-innocent are you, and ...
A Portrait (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Because my love is quick to come and go- A little here, and then a little there- What use are ...
Godmother (Dorothy Parker Poems)
The day that I was christened- It's a hundred years, and more!- A hag came and listened At the white ...
Song in a Minor Key (Dorothy Parker Poems)
There's a place I know where the birds swing low, And wayward vines go roaming, Where the lilacs nod, and ...
Wail (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Love has gone a-rocketing. That is not the worst; I could do without the thing, And not be the first. ...
A Very Short Song (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is ...
Godspeed (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go ...
Summary (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Every love's the love before In a duller dress. That's the measure of my lore- Here's my bitterness: Would I ...
Wisdom (Dorothy Parker Poems)
This I say, and this I know: Love has seen the last of me. Love's a trodden lane to woe, ...
Anecdote (Dorothy Parker Poems)
So silent I when Love was by He yawned, and turned away; But Sorrow clings to my apron-strings, I have ...
Guinevere at Her Fireside (Dorothy Parker Poems)
A nobler king had never breath- I say it now, and said it then. Who weds with such is wed ...