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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: PARKER, DOROTHY Matches Found: 164 Parker, Dorothy Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy 164 poems available by this author A CERTAIN LADY Poem Text First Line: Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head Subject(s): Deception A HYMN OF HATE Poem Text First Line: I hate the drama Last Line: It cuts in on my sleep. Subject(s): Dramatists; Hate; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: I never thought that heaven would lose its blue Last Line: I never thought they would, and I was right. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AFTER A SPANISH PROVERB Poem Text First Line: Oh, mercifullest one of all, Subject(s): Friendship AFTERNOON First Line: When I am old and comforted Last Line: But oh, I wish those blessed years %were further than they be AUTOBIOGRAPHY First Line: Oh, both my shoes are shiny new BALLADE AT THIRTY-FIVE Poem Text Subject(s): Women - Middle Aged BALLADE AT THIRTY-FIVE First Line: This, no song of an ingenue Last Line: I loved them until they loved me BALLADE OF BIG PLANS First Line: Once the orioles sang in a chorus BALLADE OF UNFORTUNATE MAMMALS First Line: Love is sharper than stones or sticks Last Line: Women and elephants never forget BIOGRAPHIES First Line: Now this is the story of lucy brown BOHEMIA First Line: Authors and actors and artists and such Last Line: God, for a man who solicits insurance BOHEMIA First Line: Authors and actors and artists and such Last Line: God, for a man that solicits insurance! BRIC-A-BRAC First Line: Little things that no one needs Last Line: Little verses, such as these BUT NOT FORGOTTEN First Line: I think, no matter where you stray Last Line: And keep my image, there without me, %by telling later loves about me CERTAIN LADY First Line: Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head Last Line: And what goes on, my love, while you're away, %you'll never know Subject(s): Deception CHANT FOR DARK HOURS Poem Text First Line: Some men, some men Subject(s): Women CHANT FOR DARK HOURS First Line: Some men, some men Last Line: (all your life you wait around for some damn man!) Subject(s): Women CODA Poem Text First Line: There's little in taking or giving Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love CODA First Line: There's little in taking or giving Last Line: Would you kindly direct me to hell? Subject(s): Art And Artists; Love COMMENT Poem Text First Line: Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song Subject(s): Love COMMENT First Line: Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song Last Line: And I am marie of roumania Subject(s): Love CONDOLENCE Poem Text First Line: They hurried here, as soon as you had died Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COUNSELOR First Line: I met a man the other day DANGER OF WRITING DEFIANT VERSE First Line: And now I have another lad! DARK GIRL'S RHYME First Line: Who was there had seen us DAY-DREAMS Poem Text First Line: We'd build a little bungalow Last Line: To string along as two. DILEMMA Poem Text First Line: If I were mild, and I were sweet, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DILEMMA First Line: If I were mild, and I were sweet EPITAPH FOR A DARLING LADY Poem Text First Line: All her hours were yellow sands, Subject(s): Women; Beauty EVENING PRIMROSE First Line: You know the bloom, unearthly white Subject(s): Evening Primroses EXPERIENCE Poem Text First Line: Some men break your heart in two, Subject(s): Love - Nature Of EXPERIENCE First Line: Some men break your heart in two FABLE Poem Text First Line: Oh, there once was a lady, and so I've been told, Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FABLE First Line: Oh, there once was a lady, and so I've been told FAIRY SAD STORY First Line: I think that I shall never know Last Line: Why am I so, why am I thus? FALSE FRIENDS First Line: They laid their hands upon my head FIGHTING WORDS Poem Text First Line: Say my love is easy had Subject(s): Love FIGHTING WORDS First Line: Say my love is easy had FINIS Poem Text First Line: Now it's over, and now it's done; Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FLAW IN PAGANISM First Line: Drink and dance and laugh and lie FOLK SONG Poem Text First Line: Other lads, their ways are daring Last Line: Naturally, I do not. Subject(s): Love FOR R.C.B. First Line: Life comes a-hurrying, %or life lags slow Last Line: Many people care; %but we don't, do we? FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Why should we set these hearts of ours above Subject(s): Love FULFILLMENT First Line: For his my mother wrapped me warm Last Line: And break my heart to clattering bits FULFILMENT Poem Text First Line: I do not sit and sigh for wealth untold Last Line: It's what I've got. Subject(s): Wealth; Riches; Fortunes GENTLEST LADY First Line: They say he was a serious child Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible I KNOW I HAVE BEEN THE HAPPIEST Poem Text First Line: I know I have been happiest at your side; Subject(s): Love I SHALL COME BACK First Line: I shall come back without fanfaronade Last Line: And that will break my ghostly heart, my dear. IDYL Poem Text First Line: Think of the things that can never come true Last Line: Isn't it great that it never can be? INCURABLE First Line: And if my heart be scarred and burned Last Line: But you, my sweet, are different INSCRIPTION FOR THE CEILING OF A BEDROOM Poem Text First Line: Daily dawns another day; Subject(s): Beds; Conduct Of Life INTERIOR Poem Text First Line: Her mind lives in a quiet room, Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness INTERVIEW Poem Text First Line: The ladies men admire, I've heard, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Likes & Dislikes; Male-female Relations INTERVIEW First Line: The ladies men admire, I've heard INVENTORY Poem Text First Line: Four be the things I am wiser to know: Subject(s): Self INVENTORY First Line: Four be the things I am wiser to know ISEULT OF BRITTANY Poem Text First Line: So delicate my hands, and long, Subject(s): Hands LETTER FROM LESBIA, Poem Text First Line: ...So, praise the gods, catullus is away! Last Line: The stupid fool! I've always hated birds…. Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism LETTER FROM LESBIA, SELS. First Line: ...So, praise the gods, catullus is away! Last Line: The stupid fool! I've always hated birds Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LIGHT OF LOVE First Line: Joy stayed with me a night LINES ON READING TOO MANY POETS Poem Text First Line: Roses, rooted warm in earth, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LITTLE OLD LADY IN LAVENDER SILK First Line: I was seventy-seven, come august Subject(s): Love LITTLE WORDS First Line: When you are strayed, there is nor bloom nor leaf Last Line: I turn to little words - so you, my dear, %can spell them out LOVE SONG Poem Text First Line: My own dear love, he is strong and bold Subject(s): Love LOVE SONG First Line: My own dear love, he is strong and bold Last Line: And I wish somebody'd shoot him Subject(s): Love LYRIC Poem Text First Line: How the arrogant iris would wither and fade Subject(s): Nature MAID-SERVANT AT THE INN First Line: It's queer, she said; I see the light Last Line: I've prayed that all is well with them Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ MEN Poem Text First Line: I hate men Subject(s): Men; Hate MEN First Line: They hail you as their morning star Last Line: They make me sick, they make me tired MOOD Poem Text First Line: Unless I yield my love to you, you swear Last Line: Ah, love, if I could only count on that! Subject(s): Love MORAL TALES FOR THE YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Maude, the brightest of the sex Last Line: Nicer children do not steal. NEWS ITEM Poem Text First Line: Men seldom make passes Subject(s): Mnemonics NEWS ITEM First Line: Men seldom make passes Last Line: At girls who wear glasses Subject(s): Mnemonics NOCTURNE Poem Text First Line: Always I knew that it could not last Subject(s): Love - Loss Of OBSERVATION Poem Text First Line: If I don't drive around the park, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life OBSERVATION First Line: If I don't drive around the park Last Line: Because I do not give a damn OF A WOMAN, DEAD YOUNG Poem Text First Line: If she had been beautiful, even Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OF A WOMAN, DEAD YOUNG First Line: If she had been beautiful, even Subject(s): Death ON BEING A WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Why is it, when I am in rome Subject(s): Love; Soul; Women ON BEING A WOMAN First Line: Why is it, when I am in rome Last Line: Yet do you up and leave me-then %I scream to have you back again Subject(s): Love; Soul; Women ONE PERFECT ROSE Poem Text First Line: A single flow'r he sent me, since we met Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ONE PERFECT ROSE First Line: A single flow'r he sent me, since we met Last Line: Ah no, it's always just my luck to get %one perfect rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses PARABLE FOR A CERTAIN VIRGIN Poem Text First Line: Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine; Subject(s): Wit & Humor PARABLE FOR A CERTAIN VIRGIN First Line: Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine Last Line: And who the devil wants him? PARTIAL COMFORT Poem Text First Line: Whose love is given over-well Subject(s): Love; Wit & Humor PARTIAL COMFORT First Line: Whose love is given over-well Last Line: Whilst they whose love is thin and wise %may view john knox in paradise PATTERN Poem Text First Line: Leave me to my lonely pillow. Subject(s): Love - Complaints PENELOPE Poem Text First Line: In the pathway of the sun Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War; Odysseus PENELOPE First Line: In the pathway of the sun Last Line: Bleach the linen for my bed %they will call him brave Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War PHILOSOPHY First Line: If I should labor through daylight and dark PICTURES IN THE SMOKE First Line: Oh, gallant was the first love, and glittering and fine PIG'S-EYE VIEW OF LITERATURE, SELS. PLEA Poem Text First Line: Secrets, you said, would hold us two apart Subject(s): Secrets PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST First Line: Oh, lead me to a quiet cell POST-GRADUATE First Line: Hope it was that tutored me Last Line: And now I learn at sorrow's knee %the delf-same lore POUR PENDRE CONGE First Line: I'm sick of embarking in dories %upon an emotional sea Last Line: And how I'll be making my living, %the lord in his mystery knows PRAYER FOR A NEW MOTHER Poem Text First Line: The things she knew, let her forget again Subject(s): Religion; Theology PRAYER FOR A NEW MOTHER First Line: The things she knew, let her forget again Subject(s): Religion PROLOGUE TO A SAGA First Line: Maidens, gather not the yew PROPHETIC SOUL Poem Text First Line: Because your eyes are slant and slow Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism RAINY NIGHT First Line: Ghosts of all my lovely sins Last Line: One more wraith among your number RED DRESS First Line: I always saw, I always said Last Line: I have the silly gown REQUIESCAT Poem Text First Line: To-night my love is sleeping cold Subject(s): Love; Death; Dead, The RESUME Poem Text First Line: Razors pain you; / rivers are damp Last Line: You might as well live. Subject(s): Suicide REUBEN'S CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: Accursed from their birth they be Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy RHYME OF AN INVOLUNTARY VIOLET First Line: When I ponder lovely ladies %sliping sweetly down to hades Last Line: So my summary, in fact, is %what an awful flop my act is ROMANCE AND SEX: GENERAL REVIEW OF THE SEX SITUATION First Line: Woman wants monogamy %man delights in novelty Last Line: What earthly good can come of it ROMANCE AND SEX: UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE Poem Text First Line: By the time you swear you're his Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Mnemonics ROMANCE AND SEX: UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE First Line: By the time you swear you're his Last Line: One of you is lying Subject(s): Erotic Love; Mnemonics RONDEAU REDOUBLÉ (AND SCARCELY WORTH THE TROUBLE, AT THAT) Poem Text First Line: The same to me are sombre days and gay. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SANCTUARY First Line: My land is bare of chattering folk SECOND LOVE Poem Text First Line: So surely is she mine,' you say, and turn Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SOCIAL NOTE Poem Text First Line: Lady, lady, should you meet Subject(s): Mnemonics SOCIAL NOTE First Line: Lady, lady, should you meet Last Line: Lady, lady, better run Subject(s): Mnemonics SOLACE First Line: There was a rose that faded young Last Line: I did not wait, the while they said: %'there's many another lad' SOME BEAUTIFUL LETTERS First Line: If I don't drive around the park Variant Title(s): Observatio SONG FOR THE FIRST OF THE MONTH Poem Text First Line: Money cannot fill our needs Last Line: Laugh the landlord off with that! Subject(s): Money SONG IN A MINOR KEY Poem Text First Line: There's a place I know where the birds swing low, Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG OF AMERICAN RESIDENT IN FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Oh, we are the bold expatriate band! Subject(s): Immigration & Emigration; France SONG OF PERFECT PROPRIETY First Line: Oh, I should like to ride the seas SONG OF THE OPEN COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: When lights are low, and the day has died Last Line: That I am living right here in town. Subject(s): Country Life SONGS OF A MARKEDLY PERSONAL NATURE: DE PROFUNDIS First Line: Oh, it is then, utopian Last Line: The tales of girls he used to have? SONGS OF A MARKEDLY PERSONAL NATURE: INDIAN SUMMER First Line: In youth, it was a way I had Last Line: To hell, my love, with you Variant Title(s): Indian Summe SONGS OF A MARKEDLY PERSONAL NATURE: PROPHETIC HEART First Line: Because your eyes are slant and slow Last Line: I doubt if this will get me much SONGS OF A MARKEDLY PERSONAL NATURE: SOMEBODY'S STORY Poem Text First Line: This is what I vow Last Line: This is what I know. Variant Title(s): Somebody's Song SONNET FOR THE END OF A SEQUENCE First Line: So take my vows and scatter them to sea Last Line: Therefore, I am immeasurably grateful %to you, for proving shallow, false and hateful Variant Title(s): Take My Vow STORY First Line: And if he's gone away,' said she SUPERFLUOUS ADVICE Poem Text First Line: Should they whisper false of you, Subject(s): Advice SYMPHONY RECITAL First Line: I do not like my state of mind Last Line: I'm due to fall in love again SYMPTOM RECITAL Poem Text First Line: I do not like my state of mind; Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Likes & Dislikes; Love - Beginnings SYMPTOM RECITAL First Line: I do not like my state of mind Last Line: I'm due to fall in love again TEMPS PERDU Poem Text First Line: I never may turn the loop of a road Subject(s): Nature TEMPS PERDU First Line: I never may turn the loop of a road Last Line: What is it, what is it, I almost remember? Subject(s): Nature TESTAMENT First Line: Oh, let it be a night of lyric rain THE EVENING PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: You know the bloom, unearthly white Subject(s): Evening Primroses THE FAR-SIGHTED MUSE Poem Text First Line: Dark though the clouds, they are silver-lined Last Line: (this is what fetches the bacon home.) THE GENTLEST LADY Poem Text First Line: They say he was a serious child Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE GUNMAN AND THE DEBUTANTE Poem Text Subject(s): Crime & Criminals THE LAST QUESTION Poem Text First Line: New love, new love, where are you to lead me? Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE LEAL Poem Text First Line: The friends I made have slipped and strayed, Subject(s): Friendship THE LITTLE OLD LADY IN LAVENDER SILK Poem Text First Line: I was seventy-seven, come august Subject(s): Love THE MAID-SERVANT AT THE INN Poem Text First Line: It's queer, she said; I see the light Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The THE PASSIONATE FREUDIAN TO HIS LOVE Poem Text First Line: Only name the day, and we'll fly away Subject(s): Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Love THEORY Poem Text First Line: Into love and out again Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers THEORY First Line: Into love and out again Subject(s): Love; Singing And Singers THEY PART First Line: And if, my friend, you'd have it end THOUGHT FOR A SUNSHINY MORNING First Line: It costs me never a stab nor squirm Last Line: Your clan will pay me back one day THREAT TO A FICKLE LADY Poem Text First Line: Sweet lady sleep, befriend me Subject(s): Women THRENODY First Line: Lilacs blossom just as sweet TO A LADY, WHOI MUST WRITE VERSE First Line: Unto seventy years and seven Last Line: Lest a cooled, benignant phaon %murmur, 'foolish little thing!' TO MY DOG Poem Text First Line: I often wonder why on earth Last Line: That women always fall for. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TOMBSTONES IN THE STARLIGHT: 1. THE MINOR POET First Line: His little trills and chirpings were his best Last Line: But he, too, laid his breast %upon a thorn TOMBSTONES IN THE STARLIGHT: 2. THE PRETTY LADY First Line: She hated bleak and wintry things alone Last Line: It is forever bitter cold in hell TOMBSTONES IN THE STARLIGHT: 3. THE ACTRESS Poem Text First Line: Her name, cut clear upon this marble cross Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TOMBSTONES IN THE STARLIGHT: 3. THE ACTRESS First Line: Her name, cut clear upon this marble cross Last Line: Obscures the figures of her date of birth Subject(s): Poetry And Poets TOMBSTONES IN THE STARLIGHT: 4. THE FISHERWOMAN First Line: The man she had was kind and clean Last Line: The one that got away TWO-VOLUME NOVEL First Line: The sun's gone dim, and UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE Poem Text First Line: By the time you swear you're his Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Lies VERSE FOR A CERTAIN DOG Poem Text First Line: Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VERSE FOR A CERTAIN DOG First Line: Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WAIL Poem Text First Line: Love has gone a-rocketing. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WITH BEST WISHES Poem Text First Line: Glad christmas day once more has come Last Line: "and a highly colored copy of ""that old sweetheart of mine." Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint WOODLAND SONG Poem Text Subject(s): Flowers |
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