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 ...
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Dorothy Parker Poems (188 Poems)
Ballade Of A Talked-Off Ear (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Daily I listen to wonder and woe,Nightly I hearken to knave or to ace,Telling me stories of lava and snow,Delicate ...
Story Of Mrs. W- (Dorothy Parker Poems)
My garden blossoms pink and white,A place of decorous murmuring,Where I am safe from August nightAnd cannot feel the knife ...
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 ...
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 ...
Résumé (Dorothy Parker Poems)
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)
Cherry White (Dorothy Parker Poems)
I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, "How gay 'twould beTo hang ...
Ballade at Thirty-five (Dorothy Parker Poems)
This, no song of an ingénue, This, no ballad of innocence; This, the rhyme of a lady who Followed ever ...
Dilemma (Dorothy Parker Poems)
If I were mild, and I were sweet, And laid my heart before your feet, And took my dearest thoughts ...
Garden-Spot (Dorothy Parker Poems)
God's acre was her garden-spot, she said; She sat there often, of the Summer days, Little and slim and sweet, ...
Interview (Dorothy Parker Poems)
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light; They'd rather ...
Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday (Dorothy Parker Poems)
So let me have the rouge again, And comb my hair the curly way. The poor young men, the dear ...
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 ...
Salome’s Dancing-Lesson (Dorothy Parker Poems)
She that begs a little boon (Heel and toe! Heel and toe!) Little gets- and nothing, soon. (No, no, no! ...
Sweet Violets (Dorothy Parker Poems)
You are brief and frail and blue- Little sisters, I am, too. You are Heaven's masterpieces- Little loves, the likeness ...
The Lady’s Reward (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, ...
The Whistling Girl (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Back of my back, they talk of me, Gabble and honk and hiss; Let them batten, and let them be- ...
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 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 ...
Ballade Of A Great Weariness (Dorothy Parker Poems)
There's little to have but the things I had, There's little to bear but the things I bore. There's nothing ...
Distance (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Were you to cross the world, my dear, To work or love or fight, I could be calm and wistful ...
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 ...
Inventory (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things ...
Nocturne (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Always I knew that it could not last (Gathering clouds, and the snowflakes flying), Now it is part of the ...
Portrait of the Artist (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Oh, lead me to a quiet cell Where never footfall rankles, And bar the window passing well, And gyve my ...
Sanctuary (Dorothy Parker Poems)
My land is bare of chattering folk; The clouds are low along the ridges, And sweet's the air with curly ...
Symptom Recital (Dorothy Parker Poems)
I do not like my state of mind; I'm bitter, querulous, unkind. I hate my legs, I hate my hands, ...
The Last Question (Dorothy Parker Poems)
New love, new love, where are you to lead me? All along a narrow way that marks a crooked line. ...
The White Lady (Dorothy Parker Poems)
I cannot rest, I cannot rest In straight and shiny wood, My woven hands upon my breast-- The dead are ...
Victoria (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Dear dead Victoria Rotted cosily; In excelsis gloria, And R. I. P. And her shroud was buttoned neat, And her ...