Charles Dickens (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Who call him spurious and shoddy Shall do it o'er my lifeless body. I heartily invite such birds To come ...
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 ...
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never ...
Unto seventy years and seven, Hide your double birthright well- You, that are the brat of Heaven And the pampered ...
I know I have been happiest at your side; But what is done, is done, and all's to be. And ...
They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll ...
Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine; Refresh your recollection, And sit a moment, to define His means of self-protection. How truly ...
Ghosts of all my lovely sins, Who attend too well my pillow, Gay the wanton rain begins; Hide the limp ...
So take my vows and scatter them to sea; Who swears the sweetest is no more than human. And say ...
You know the bloom, unearthly white, That none has seen by morning light- The tender moon, alone, may bare Its ...
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