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, ...
This I say, and this I know: Love has seen the last of me. Love's a trodden lane to woe, ...
Because my love is quick to come and go- A little here, and then a little there- What use are ...
Little things that no one needs -- Little things to joke about -- Little landscapes, done in beads. Little morals, ...
This level reach of blue is not my sea; Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun, Whose quiet ripples ...
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go ...
Joy stayed with me a night -- Young and free and fair -- And in the morning light He left ...
Why is it, when I am in Rome, I'd give an eye to be at home, But when on native ...
Dearest one, when I am dead Never seek to follow me. Never mount the quiet hill Where the copper leaves ...
There was a rose that faded young; I saw its shattered beauty hung Upon a broken stem. I heard them ...
Love has had his way with me. This my heart is torn and maimed Since he took his play with ...
If it shine or if it rain, Little will I care or know. Days, like drops upon a pane, Slip, ...
And if, my friend, you'd have it end, There's naught to hear or tell. But need you try to black ...
Helen of Troy had a wandering glance; Sappho's restriction was only the sky; Ninon was ever the chatter of France; ...
Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is ...
I think, no matter where you stray, That I shall go with you a way. Though you may wander sweeter ...
Travel, trouble, music, art, A kiss, a frock, a rhyme- I never said they feed my heart, But still they ...
A nobler king had never breath- I say it now, and said it then. Who weds with such is wed ...
Roses, rooted warm in earth, Bud in rhyme, another age; Lilies know a ghostly birth Strewn along a patterned page; ...
"Then we will have tonight!" we said. "Tomorrow- may we not be dead?" The morrow touched our eyes, and found ...
Long I fought the driving lists, Plume a-stream and armor clanging; Link on link, between my wrists, Now my heavy ...
This is what I vow; He shall have my heart to keep, Sweetly will we stir and sleep, All the ...
He'd have given me rolling lands, Houses of marble, and billowing farms, Pearls, to trickle between my hands, Smoldering rubies, ...
I always saw, I always said If I were grown and free, I'd have a gown of reddest red As ...
Carlyle combined the lit'ry life With throwing teacups at his wife, Remarking, rather testily, "Oh, stop your dodging, Mrs. C.!" ...
In April, in April, My one love came along, And I ran the slope of my high hill To follow ...
Some men, some men Cannot pass a Book shop. (Lady, make your mind up, and wait your life away.) Some ...
Say my love is easy had, Say I'm bitten raw with pride, Say I am too often sad- Still behold ...
The pure and worthy Mrs. Stowe Is one we all are proud to know As mother, wife, and authoress- Thank ...
When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I ...
A single flow'r he sent me, since we met. All tenderly his messenger he chose; Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew ...
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