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| 1041. | Prologue to a Saga by Dorothy Parker | | Maidens, gather not the yew,
Leave the glossy myrtle sleeping;
Any lad was born untrue,
Never a one is fit your weeping.
Pretty dears, your tumu... |
| 1042. | Prophetic Soul by Dorothy Parker | | Because your eyes are slant and slow,
Because your hair is sweet to touch,
My heart is high again; but oh,
I doubt if this will get me much. ... |
| 1043. | Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song by Dorothy Parker | | There's many and many, and not so far,
Is willing to dry my tears away;
There's many to tell me what you are,
And never a lie to all they say.
I... |
| 1044. | Song of Perfect Propriety by Dorothy Parker | | Oh, I should like to ride the seas,
A roaring buccaneer;
A cutlass banging at my knees,
A dirk behind my ear.
And when my captives' chains would c... |
| 1045. | Sonnet On An Alpine Night by Dorothy Parker | | My hand, a little raised, might press a star-
Where I may look, the frosted peaks are spun,
So shaped before Olympus was begun,
Spanned each to eac... |
| 1046. | Superfluous Advice by Dorothy Parker | | Should they whisper false of you.
Never trouble to deny;
Should the words they say be true,
Weep and storm and swear they lie.
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| 1047. | Surprise by Dorothy Parker | | My heart went fluttering with fear
Lest you should go, and leave me here
To beat my breast and rock my head
And stretch me sleepless on my bed.
Ah... |
| 1048. | Symptom Recital by Dorothy Parker | | I do not like my state of mind;
I'm bitter, querulous, unkind.
I hate my legs, I hate my hands,
I do not yearn for lovelier lands.
I dread the daw... |
| 1049. | Temps Perdu by Dorothy Parker | | I never may turn the loop of a road
Where sudden, ahead, the sea is Iying,
But my heart drags down with an ancient load-
My heart, that a second be... |
| 1050. | The Apple Tree by Dorothy Parker | | When first we saw the apple tree
The boughs were dark and straight,
But never grief to give had we,
Though Spring delayed so late.
When last I c... |
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